Personal InfoCloud

Category: Tools

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…
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…
Stikkit Is a Nice Example of a Personal InfoCloud Tool

Nov 8, 2006

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Calendar, Folksonomy, Mobile, Personal InfoCloud, PKM, Tools, Web

I have been using the newly launched Stikkit for the last day and rather enjoying it. Stikkit, is a web-based postit with super powers of a notepad with bookmark, calendar, lite address book for people, tagging, to do, and reminders to SMS (in the U.S.) and/or e-mail. Stikkit is the product of values of n…