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Notes from TagCamp
I am at TagCamp right now. There are a great set of participants and sessions. Just finished my sessions on Findability with Tags where I talked about Clusters, Facets and Collaborative Filtering....
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Yahoo acquires my favorite web service (yes, I am referring to del.icio.us)!
This is good news! I have been vacillating between putting more energy into Yahoo MyWeb2.0 or waiting for del.icio.us to have groups. Now, I no longer need to make this decision. Here is Joshua’s take....
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Why yahool.icio.us makes sense
There has been a lot of back and forth about whether the del.icio.us – Yahoo deal makes sense. In my opinion, it does. Yahoo’s tagging strategy was incomplete without it, and not just becase My Web 2.0...
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A social analysis of tagging
(or how tagging transforms the solitary browsing experience into a social one) In a previous essay, I wrote about the cognitive aspect of tagging – describing how people tag, and why they find it...
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The tag-cloud replaces the basic menu – Is this a good idea?
I knew someone or the other was going to do this – its too obvious an idea. “Lets try replacing all site navigation with a tag cloud!”. I just came across this on the FlockSucks website – its by a...
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My slides for Tagging 2.0 panel at SXSW
Just wrapped up with the Tagging panel at SXSW. I talked about “Tagging: From Personal to Social”. I was the last speaker, and there were only 10 minutes left for my presentation. I spoke really fast...
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BayCHI Social Search panel – Podcast is online!
Last week we had a great BayCHI panel on Social and Personalized Search. Participants were from Netflix, Live365, del.icio.us, Pandora and digg. I moderated it. The podcast for that panel is now...
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Tagging comes of age at the World Wide Web conference
I have been looking over the program for the workshop on tagging at the World Wide Web conference, and I am amazed at the diversity and quality of the papers that will be presented there. This is one...
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Reportback from Tagging Workshop at the World Wide Web conference
Tagging workshop was great. Some observations in no particular order. 1) A number of papers about tagging in the enterprise. The common theme seemed to be about creating a loose social network,...
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Findability with tags: Facets, clusters, and pivot browsing
For a while I have been thinking of different ways of supporting finding information with tags that go beyond tag-clouds. There are three trends that are worth pointing out. 1) Faceted Browsing...
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