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Improving Social Bookmarking Granularity

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

Lately I’m playing badly with RawSugar, a powerful web2.0 social bookmarking platform that, starting from a delicious like idea, adds a bit of secret sauce and of hierarchical tagging.

I’m really curious about hierarchical tagging, especially to understand to which extent people are intestered in using it.

An idea that could also be of interested for me […]

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The first post on folksonomies

Thursday, April 28th, 2005

Probably the first post about folksonomies, long before the term was coined and social softwares like del.icio.us and flickr saw the light, was written by Peter Merholz and is dated 11/10/2001!

In a post titled Vernacular Thesauri, Peter talked about user generated classification after attending to ASIST 2001.

Her talk got me thinking about community-generated, or “vernacular” […]

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