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Category: Social Software

Explaining and Showing Broad and Narrow Folksonomies

Feb 21, 2005

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by

Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Folksonomy, Information Creation, Social Software, Web

I have been explaining the broad and narrow folksonomy in e-mail and in comments on others sites, as well as in the media (Wired News). There has still been some confusion, which is very understandable as it is a different concept that goes beyond a simple understanding of tagging. I have put together a couple…
Stitching our Lives Together

Apr 11, 2004

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by

Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Information Creation, Mobile, Personal Info, Portability, Social Software, Standards, Syndication, User Experience

Not long ago Jeffrey Veen posted about Will you be my friend, which brought up some needs to better stitch together our own disperse information. An excellent example is: For example, when I plan a trip, I try to find out who else will be around so I have people to hang out with. So…