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 as far as I can see there has been a lot of pushback on the “nofollow� microformat. But what about the others? I know of rubhub.com, but what use is it? Any ideas out there? I’m new to this stuff…

Joshua Porter

Bud Gibson tries to give an answer and continues to propose his new Xhtml microformats xFolk on his blog TheCommunityEngine. Have a look on this The business value of folksonomy and xFolk

I’m following with interest his posts one xFolk (as i’m doing with the XFML for faceted classification). I’m sure that we lack a standardized way to export and share information about classification. A standard is of course needed for automatic tools to explode. A good example is facetMap for Faceted Browsing.

I’m starting to think about a WP plug-in to incorporate a faceted classification inside WP.

In the same category:

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 6th, 2005 at 12:50 pm and is filed under Information Architecture, Bokardo, Joshua Porter, Bud Gibson, TheCommunityEngine. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.