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The business value of folksonomy and xFolk

Wednesday, April 6th, 2005

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 […]

Controlled Vocabularies and Folksonomies

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

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 […]

Folksonomies require tagging?

Monday, March 14th, 2005

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 […]