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Month May 2006

Why are tags better than folders?

Today I ran across a couple of good presentations from the Social Computing Symposium 2005. Particularly interesting to me are the two presentations on social metadata and tagging (presentations require IE): – David Weinberger: From Trees to Tags (presentation) – Matt MacLaurin: Tesla, Tagging for the DeskTop (presentation) Those that are against tagging site consumers [...]

Blogging at Earthling for a couple days.

Dave Coustan the regular blogger for Earthling asked me to “watch-the-shop” for him since he is out of town at the Synidcate conference in New York. Today I posted my thoughts on why Google doesn’t like using tags.

Yahoo! starts product convergence – perhaps?

Today, del.icio.us’ blog announced that when you bookmark a Flickr photo it will automatically display a thumbnail of the saved photo. This is pretty neat addition to del.icio.us, but does it also signal the start of Yahoo! converging their acquired community services? Just pure speculation on my part, however, it makes sense for them to [...]