March 2008
3 posts
Me & Template Tagging
In order for social tagging systems to be most useful the tags that
users place on items need to have some sort of global use. Specifically a common problem of tagging systems is that tags that are meaningful for a specific user are not meaningful to a generic user.
I wrote some of my prior thoughts on tagging over at the kozoru blog last year. (Which I’ve snagged from archive.org and...
Collaborative Tagging In Social Networks: A...
Summary
Collaborative scoring sites like Reddit and Digg demonstrate the editorial power of having user-scored data. Tagging sites like Flickr, delicious and LibraryThing show the power of having user-created categories (aka folksonomies). Social networking sites like LiveJournal and MySpace show the power of having user-managed relationships. Creating or enhancing a social network with...
There are more questions than answers? Debatable!
Johnny Nash wrote a song ‘There are more questions than answers’ but, while I love Johnny, spending the last 10 years thinking about AI and Search makes me think it’s just not so. After college I wanted to ‘do AI’ and went to Texas to work on the CYC project. During my time there the internet took off - nearly overnight. This explosion created more information...