BBC Shared tags: when social bookmarking meet BBC to allow users organize content using thei mental model

Using Yahoo API exposed through “Search Web Services”, John Herren access Yahoo content and services to build a new useful layer on Yahoo News called News Tag Soup.

News Tag Soup is an experiment on automatic news organization and retrieval using tagging: news are retrieved from Yahoo News and keywords are automatically associated to them.

Keywords (or […]

From a Scoble’s post New browser-based aggregator turns on I’ve discovered FeedTagger, a new online feeds aggregator.

FeedTagger has two innovative features:

you can organize and search feeds associating multiple tags to the them
it is based on Ajax to garantee a fast, smooth and effective interface

Other noteworthy characteristics:

It permits OPML import
It is web based
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Lately we’ve seen a lot of discussion about the role of folksonomies, search engines and traditional classifications. The conclusion seemed to be that folksonomies suggest a serendipity approach to information retrieval, while taxonomies and search engines (in two different ways) are more useful for a targeted, specific search.

But the question is:
Search engines and tagging […]