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April 15, 2005
Matt McAlister explains that the Infoworld.com upgrade isn't merely cosmetic: On the articles pages they've moved from a fixed taxonomy that took them a lot of time to develop to a structured tagging system:
Fascinating. Matt also talks about the intersection of tagging and marketing. So, see Ephraim Schwarz's article on Oracle and Sybase offering RFID integration. To the right is a "See Also" box that lists the article's tags: Ephraim_Schwartz Oracle_RFID Sybase_RFID. (You can also click on "Complete List of Tags," which takes you to Infoworld's del.icio.us page.) The Oracle_RFID link takes you to the del.icio.us list of pages Infoworld has tagged as "oracle_RFID." It being de.licio.us, that page also shows all the articles every other del.icio.us user has tagged that way. (The fact that zero non-Infoworlders have used that tag to me means that it's a tad overly specific. Why not tag the article "oracle" and "rfid" instead?) Meanwhile, the first mention of a company or technology in an Infoworld article is followed by three little links, one of which is "articles." It takes you to a list of articles about that company. That list is not coming from del.icio.us and seems (seems!) unrelated to the tagging scheme. I don't know if they're planning to switch over at some point. I'm also not sure what it means that Infoworld is applying matching logic to del.icio.us feeds. Does that mean they're looking at tags from non-Infoworlders? In any case, this is exciting because a high-traffic site that lives and dies by content is trusting the looser bonds of tagging to help us explore what's related. And if Infoworld is using del.icio.us to include related links outside of their site — even if they don't, because Infoworld is using del.icio.us we can do that for ourselves — then we have a great example of the social power of links: They owners of the information no longer are the sole proprietors of the organization of that information. [Technorati tags: tags infoworld folksonomy] Posted
by D. Weinberger at April 15, 2005 09:34 AM
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Comments
You know. About a month ago I coded tags into my home rolled blog software. I was thinking I could use them to replace having categories.
What I'm finding though is that I'm unable to suppress the urge to tag each post as a tag related to specifically what the post is about. So I have an ever growing number of tags instead of a fixed set of categories.
Im not really sure where its going, but its been interesting experiment so far.
Posted by: Pat Rock | April 15, 2005 03:32 PM
"I'm also not sure what it means that Infoworld is applying matching logic to del.icio.us feeds. Does that mean they're looking at tags from non-Infoworlders?"
Yes. It is the related discovery of information that is so cool. We offer a service - Ideascape - to businesses that does the same thing as autolink but we use del.icio.us to match text instead of a search engine.
Just as cool, we provide users with an internal tagging system, same as del.icio.us, to give them the ability to tag and bookmark each other's posts. This is great for a KM system or a gigantic learning and development environment.
So far, our experience (the last 10 months) with tagging is that you need a controlled vocabulary to quickly find stuff and a folksonomy to discover related content. The related content is the most exciting since users can add their own meaning via tags, bookmarks to create a rich-context of the content. Hey, we don't all think alike.
Posted by: jim wilde | April 15, 2005 06:27 PM