24 March 2006
wwwtools for teachers:Tags, Folksonomies and Social Bookmarking.
by ycc2106 & 2 othersResource and links about Tags, Folksonomies and Social Bookmarking.
02 March 2006
Read/WriteWeb: Web 2.0 Definition and Tagging
by ycc2106To investigate what words and phrases people associate with Web 2.0, I took a close look at two popular Web 2.0-ish articles and noted what tags people stored them under in del.icio.us. The first post was Adam Rifkin's fantastic Weblications. It currently has 99 people linking to it on del.icio.us and here is an excel chart showing the top tags:
Folksonomies: Tags Strengths, Weaknesses And How To Make Them Work - Robin Good's Latest News
by ycc2106 & 2 others* Misspelt tags (e.g., libary, libray)
* Badly encoded tags, such as unlikely compound word groupings (e.g.,TimBernersLee)
* Tags that do not follow convention in issues such as case and number; singular versus plural form (e.g., apple, apples)
* Personal tags that are without meaning to the wider community (e.g., mydog)
* Single-use tags that appear only once in the database. (e.g., billybobsdog)
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