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  • Social Bookmarking Services And Tools: The Wisdom Of Crowds That Organizes The Web



    Social bookmarking has been one of Web 2.0's success stories, tapping into the social dimension of the evolving internet, the power of online collaboration and the wisdom of crowds. Photo credit: Maarten Janssen The web is vast. Far too vast for anyone to have a hope of ...
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    Michael Pick -- December 1




    Folksonomies: Tags Strengths, Weaknesses And How To Make Them Work



    1. Introduction A folksonomy is a type of distributed classification system. It is usually created by a group of individuals, typically the resource users. Users add tags to online items, such as images, videos, bookmarks and text. These tags are then shared and sometimes refined. Photo credit: ...
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    Guy Marieke and Emma Tonkin - DLib Magazine -- February 1




    Ratings, Rankings And Recommendations: Tags Engines Better Than Traditional Search?



    There's quite a buzz now around so-called "tagging sites." The easiest way to describe tagging sites is that they are essentially a Web-based version of the favorites list on your Web browser. Users post their favorite Web sites and Web pages to these tagging sites, which ...
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    Russell Perkins - Shore -- January 30







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