Lately, every and each day, a new folksonomical web 2.0 startup seems to born. Going a step further and trying to catch their mission, their added value, the innovation they introduce very often you will find nothing new!

As if Web 2.0 was a goal in itself: creating a new service inspired to the widespread new […]

User Interface Engineering presents a nice post from Joshua Portar of Bokardo titled Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content.

Nothing new but a few phrases to notice about the pros that folksonomies have in respect to taxonomies

Folksonomies…addresses two of the most difficult problems with taxonomies.

First:

The information within folksonomies is organized and maintained by users, […]

After looking for a lot of discussion about folksonomies, we can ask which use you can do practically of them. An example on Bokardo Bloglines introduces “unique to me�, What are microformats good for?, and Naming:

What I’m not sold on yet is the usefulness of microformats. I don’t have any use for them yet, and […]

From Joshua Porter on his Bokardo, i was reading a pretty old post about Controlled Vocabularies and Folksonomies

As always Joshua makes some good points about the different approach of vocabularies and folksonomies:

The biggest peculiarity of folksonomies is that:
folksonomies …… are harnessing user behavior, rather than predicting or dictating it. The key to this is the […]

Again from Joshua Porter an enlightning post entitled I’ve Heard of Folksonomies. Now How do I Apply them to My Site?.

The title is a little misleading in my opionion, but the meaning very very clear and the narration always precise.

Joshua is reflecting about the real power of folksonomies that does not necessarily concerns the tagging […]