Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Week 7 - Tagging, folksonomies, del.icio.us, LibraryThing

I need to watch this clip at home as it isn't loading properly at work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU&feature=user
(Social bookmarking in plain English)

Folksonomy is a new word for me:

Tagging, remember, allows you to associate keywords with online content - webpages, pictures, posts, etc. It is considered a folksonomy, aka an unstructured categorization scheme.



Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site that lets you save bookmarks to a central location (no more copying them to multiple browsers on multiple computers) and classify them all with tags.
Well, in addition to tagging your bookmarks, you can see how other users have tagged the same links and see related websites are important to them. This is an excellent way to find websites that may be of interest to you.



http://delicious.com/slnsw?settagview=cloud
I have joined this site as monica.swrl

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