Husain Shambhoora's List: Social

• 10% of US online consumers say that they tag Web pages or other content at least  monthly
• The act of categorizing and retrieving Web content using open-ended labels  called tags
• allows users to assign their own word or words to mark products and content  online. The words they choose then become a navigation shortcut
• profile of the user who created the tag can also become a navigation element for  other users
• site's internal search platform can index the tags
• provide an alternative way of connecting a site's users with the products and  content that they seek, using language that's meaningful to customers rather  than traditional navigation terms like price and brand
• help organize and display user-generated content
• Forrester recommends that companies use taxonomy-directed tagging,  which means that when users create a tag, they can choose from existing  suggested tags, or they can add their own. Taxonomy-directed tagging makes the  tagging process more efficient and easier to use and promotes consistency among  tags
• suggesting tags for users to choose from — as well as allowing them to create  their own — can encourage consistency and does not require a manual approval  process
• ability to screen out inappropriate content
• implementing taxonomy-directed tagging or choosing only certain tags to showcase  in public views, can achieve the benefits of maintaining control and consistency  while saving the labor costs of a manual approval process
• To drive adoption of social tagging
• Forrester recommends letting users determine the level of privacy that they  prefer: Let users decide whether tags can be seen only by the user, by the  user's network, or by everyone using the site

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• This paper gives an overview of current trends in manual indexing on the Web. Along with a general rise of user generated content there are more and more tagging systems that allow users to annotate digital resources with tags (keywords) and share their annotations with other users. Tagging is frequently seen in contrast to traditional knowledge organization systems or as something completely new. This paper shows that tagging should better be seen as a popular form of manual indexing on the Web. Difference between controlled and free indexing blurs with sufficient feedback mechanisms. A revised typology of tagging systems is presented that includes different user roles and knowledge organization systems with hierarchical relationships and vocabulary control. A detailed bibliography of current research in collaborative tagging is included.
  - Husain Shambhoora on 2008-02-15

• 1. It creates one way links to your pages and helps them to be ranked on search  engines better. 

   

  2. It helps others to find your posts and link to them from their  websites/weblogs.

   

  3. It helps you to find more friends who are interested in the same field as  you are and so facilitates joint venturing and sharing good ideas and new  methods and techniques.

   

  4. It increases your website/weblog Alexa ranking.

   

  5. It helps you to be known as an expert and guru in your niche. You will  become famous and this will drive more traffic and link to your website

• no standard for the structure of such tags
• no standard set of keywords
• tags that can have more than one meaning
• unclear tags due to synonym/antonym confusion
• unorthodox and "personalized" tag schemas from some users
• mistagging due to spelling errors
• no mechanism for users to indicate hierarchical relationships between tags
• susceptible to corruption and collusion
• add CAPTCHA protection against spam

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• Has good statistics about usage of social apps - Husain Shambhoora on 2008-02-21