While most of us are focused on harnessing the power of tagging on our own sites, there is the equally important–but much harder–problem of how to make tagging useful across sites, content aggregators, RSS readers, etc.
Niall Kennedy blogs today about how content producers can help make RSS feeds “tag aware.” His suggestions are good, [...]
Ah, yes, you know you’ve hit a nerve when other people and companies are writing documentation *for* you. That is the goal isn’t it, when others do your work for free out of passion for the product…Tips for Flickr beginners : Lifehacker
When we started seeing social network sites spring up (Friendster being the first to make waves) it was obvious this was a phenomenon that would grow in impact. It was also obvious that it was case of the tail wagging the dog, in that the applications weren’t there. It was like viral marketing before Hotmail: [...]
The secrets of the Flickr system architecture. Not an exhaustive detailing, but some interesting factoids for the archive. Niall Kennedy’s Weblog: Flickr architecture
I’ve borne my share of circular arguments from Intelligent Design Theorists so this “Plumbing Parable” struck me as funny and astute: Pharyngula::A plumbing parable
Just found this on flickr. It’s a site for tagging books. I’m telling you, this folksonomies thing is a tidal wave in its early stages. BETA- Books We Like
Having said that, tagging alone doesn’t make a great site. It’s an organizational premise, a meta-data generation tool. It isn’t always the right tool for the job. [...]
Tagging gets smarter. One of the problems in the uber-simple tag implementations we’ve seen so far is that they are completely flat. If a user typed “tag” for one post, and “tags” for another, they’d be considered two different tags. There’s no normalization. This del.icio.us tag stemmer approaches a solution: Many-to-Many: del.icio.uus Tag Stemming
Everything you wanted to know about getting the most out of delicious: Us.ef.ul (beelerspace)