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Archive for October, 2006

Enterprise Wikis

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

For an exciting internal project on my new company, I’m working on a little research on enterprise wikis.

There are of course some comprehensive and updated articles to select the right tool. For example the wikimatrix.

Being an advocate of usability, user centred methodologies and user experience I’m very disappointed to learn that quite all current […]

Facetag Slides and Paper

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

As I wrote in my preliminary post about FaceTag, this project is actually quite unique in its kind.

I think about it as a sort of bridge between emergent and traditional classification tools. A mixed sauce that aims to smoothen both the limits of controlled vocabularies and of plain folksonomies.

The feedback that we got at […]

Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing and Information Science

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

2007 seems to be an extraordinary year for the education on social tagging and web 2.0 applications more generally.

Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing and Information Science will probably be among the richest conferences and will be held October 18-25, in (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) as a part of the ASIS&T Annual Meeting.

The deep change that is […]

Hierarchial Tagging for Wikipedia?

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Well I’m not going to talk specifically about Wikipedia, but this topic could be of interest for its evolution as well. That’s why:

Consumerpedia aims to be a sort of Wikipedia clone in the consumer space with a page for each topic, rated comments and navigation suggestions to other related topics.

From what I can […]

SIG/CR Annual Classification Research Workshop

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

I’m happy to see that social tagging has been “promoted” to an academical topic being discussed all over the world by universities, companies and researchers. This year some very important events have been:

the Collaborative Web Tagging Workshop (WWW 2006, Edinburgh)
the IA Summit 2006 (not specifically thought for tagging but with a few good presentations on […]