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Revisiting the Web 2.0 Dictionary - Part I

The Marketing Blog

Folksonomy – Tom is a ‘photographer’ and he wants to share his ‘Goa trip’ photographs via the web. As Thomas Vander Wal says, the folksonomy is a means for people to tag objects (web pages, photos, videos, podcasts, etc., The folksonomy is the structure. Group B also creates the second tag.

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Grow Your Wiki

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Thomas Vander Wal explains folksonomy - using social taging to organize knowledge based on interconnections between people. Google Sites. governance. government. guest blogger. HigheredBlogCon. incentives. information management. information security. innovation. interdisciplinary. k12online06. knowledge management. laptop stolen. left brain.

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Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I then mined links for dmoz – the Open Directory Project, which was a bit of a folksonomy because volunteer editors like myself could add or edit categories as we saw fit (although generally a single editor would be in charge of a particular domain). A map showed your street and which houses were occupied or vacant.

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