Podcast. Flickr Related Tag Browser. Blog Archive » The New Face of Tagging. Del.icio.us for people. Why does del.icio.us for people not exist yet?
This would be a means of tagging people with words; annotating their interest areas, likes and dislikes, how you know them, where you met them and probably many other aspects of meta data. People-tagging would ideally have full portability across the Internet including social networking applications (myspace, LinkedIn, plaxo, etc.), personal IM, email and blogs and corporate/other group applications.
Like regular webtags, peopletags could be self-assigned and/or discovered and shared with tiered permissioning. Instant Affinity Tag Communication - Next Gen RSSImagine being able to instantly transmit news, blogposts, videos, events, etc. to a variety of affinity groups without having to remember which friends and colleagues are interested in which topics, Markets 2.0, videoblogging, sustainable energy, etc. Is it ethical to tag people?
Folksonomies: How we can improve the tags. The discussion on folksonomies continues.
Folksonomies—like controlled vocabularies—are here to stay, and instead of argue about their merits relative to controlled vocabularies, I would like to focus on how we can make them better. What I have noticed is that I suck at coming up with good tags for my links in delicious. I just cannot really come up with good tags to write—frequently I will just repeat words from the title—and as a result, most of my tags end up being applied to only that one entry, with a few tags, such as “web” and “software” being applied to so many links as to make them useless.