Author: Thomas Vander Wal

A Stale State of Tagging?

Aug 29, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Identity, Portability

David Weinberger posted a comment about Tagging like it was 2002, which quotes Matt Mower discussing the state of tagging. I mostly agree, but not completely. In the consumer space thing have been stagnant for a while, but in the enterprise space there is some good forward movement and some innovation taking place. But, let…
Open Conversations and Privacy Needs for Business

Aug 12, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Enterprise, Identity, Local InfoCloud, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, Social Software

I thought I would share the latest press bit around this joint, Thomas Vander Wal was quoted in Inc Magazine What's Next: Shout it Out Loud (or in the August 2007 issue beginning on page 69). The article focuses the need and desire for companies to share and be open with more of their data…
Sharing and Following / Listening in the Social Web

Jul 24, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Enterprise, Local InfoCloud, Personal InfoCloud, Privacy, Social Software

You may be familiar with my granular social network post and the postings around the Personal InfoCloud posts that get to personal privacy and personal management of information we have seen, along with the Come to Me Web, but there is an element that is still missing and few social web sites actually grasp the…
Inline Messaging

Jul 21, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Attraction, Community, Local InfoCloud, Personal InfoCloud, Social Software, Ubiquitous Computing

Many of the social web services (Facebook, Pownce, MySpace, Twitter, etc.) have messaging services so you can communication with your "friends". Most of the services will only ping you on communication channels outside their website (e-mail, SMS/text messaging, feeds (RSS), etc.) and require the person to go back to the website to see the message,…
Understanding Taxonomy and Folksonmy Together

Jul 13, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Information Architecture, Social Software

I deeply appreciate Joshua Porter's link to from his Taxonomies and Tags blog post. This is a discussion I have quite regularly as to the relation and it is in my presentations and workshops and much of my tagging (and social web) training, consulting, and advising focusses on getting smart on understanding the value and…
The Social Enterprise

Jun 22, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Information Creation, Marketplace, Social Software

I am just back from Enterprise 2.0 Conference held in Boston, where I presented Bottom-up All The Way Down: How Tags Help Businesses Organize (thanks to Stowe Boyd for the tantalizing session title), which was liveblog captured by Sandy Kemsley as "Enterprise 2.0: Thomas Vander Wal". I did not catch all of the conference due…
Stitching Conversation Threads Fractured Across Channels

Jun 16, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Attraction, Community, Information Architecture, Local InfoCloud, Model of Attraction, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, Portability, Privacy, Social Software, Technology, Ubiquitous Computing

Communicating is simple. Well it is simple at its core of one person talking with another person face-to-face. When we communicate and add technology into the mix (phone, video-chat, text message, etc.) it becomes more difficult. Technology becomes noise in the pure flow of communication. Now With More Complexity But, what we have today is…
Folksonomy Provides 70 Percent More Terms Than Taxonomy

Jun 12, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Folksonomy, Tools, Web

While at the WWW Conference in Banff for the Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization Workshop and was chatting with Jennifer Trant about folksonomies validating and identifying gaps in taxonomy. She pointed out that at least 70% of the tags terms people submitted in Steve Museum were not in the taxonomy after cleaning-up the…
Breaking Down LibraryThing vs. Amazon Tagging Analysis

Feb 27, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Attraction, Community, Folksonomy, Local InfoCloud, Marketplace, Personal InfoCloud, Social Software

I have been rather heads down on a project the last week or two since the Thingolology: When tags work and when they don’t: Amazon and LibraryThing blog post was created. Tim from LibraryThing, who wrote the post, was kind enough to give me an early heads-up and I responded a few days later. I…
Life Data Stream

Feb 19, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Attraction, Attraction Receptor, Personal InfoCloud, Syndication, Technology, Tools

Emily Chang posted about "My Data Stream", which brought to mind the idea of personal planets. Emily is pulling together the streaming data from her digital life that passes through feeds. Jeremy Keith has written about his life streams and has had a nice interface to Jeremy’s Life Stream for some time now. It was…