Category: Folksonomy

The State of Enterprise Social Software

Oct 17, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Local InfoCloud, Personal InfoCloud, Privacy, Social Software, User Experience

Last Friday the Read/Write Web post on "Big Vendors Scrap for Enterprise 2.0 Supremacy" post really was bothersome for me. The list of big players and their products in the post seemed to show the sorry state of offerings by the big companies more than it shows they understand the vast improvements that have been…
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…
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…
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…
Pew Research on Tagging

Jan 31, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Folksonomy, Research

Lee Ranie of the Pew Internet and American Life Project announced the release of Pew Internet Project Report on Tagging in America. The report also includes an extensive interview with David Weinberger on the subject of tagging. The most interesting parts of this report at the percentages of people in America who tag (includes those…
Beneath the Metadata – Replies

Nov 20, 2006

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Folksonomy

I have read the "Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy in the November 2006 DLib. Boy, did I have problems with it, but so did David Weinberger, who responded with Beneath the Metadata – a reply. My reading of the DLib article brought back the pain of taxonomies and the "expert" arrogance that…
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…
Dual Folksonomy Triad

Jun 15, 2006

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Thomas Vander Wal

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

Needing to Express Folksonomy Simply I have been presenting tagging and folksonomy quite a few times in the past two years. I kept coming back to needing a simple to understand view of what is happening in folksonomy that separates it from general tagging. I also wanted to show how it is relatively easy to…