PUBLIC MARKS from fredbird with tag tags

The Web is changing. It’s moving toward a social web, a place where people can social and share knowledge. Central to this new Web is the idea of tagging — the ability to annotate Web resources with keywords. One question that many people ask is “what’s next?” Where will we go from here? What’s role for the Semantic Web in the social web and tagging?

Ontologies are enabling technology for the Semantic Web. They are a means for people to state what they mean by formal terms used in data that they might generate or consume. Folksonomies are an emergent phenomenon of the social web. They are created as people associate terms with content that they generate or consume. Recently the two ideas have been put into opposition, as if they were right and left poles of a political spectrum. This piece is an attempt to shed some cool light on the subject, and to preview some new work that applies the two ideas together to enable an Internet ecology for folksonomies

Snippets is a public source code repository. Easily build up your personal collection of code snippets, categorize them with tags / keywords, and share them with the world (or not, you can keep them private!)

Attention, demi-troll ! Non, je n'ai pas désinstallé firefox, contrairement à Suzie. Et je n'ai pas l'intention de le faire, du moins dans l'immédiat. Et je continuerai vraisemblablement à l'utiliser quotidiennement.

In recent times, an unprecedented amount of Web content has begun to be generated through web logs, wikis and other social tools thanks to lower technology and cost barriers. A new host of content creators is emerging, often individuals with the will to participate in discussions and share their ideas with like-minded people. This is to say that this increasing amount of varied, valuable content is generated by non-trained, non-expert information professionals: they are at the same time users and producers of information.

Had some conversations about tag disambiguation with people at work and in the pub yesterday (that’s right folks - I’m lots of fun to go drinking with). Stu reminded me that in the del.icio.us tagging folksonomy world, people are able to choose meaning by social convention - i.e. they see which tags people are using for what sort of things, and then choose an appropriate one for their needs (maybe to get the biggest audience).

Boris, suite à de nombreuses discussions que nous avons eues récemment sur les système de fichiers sémantique (en anglais, je dirais plutôtSemantic Desktop ou Semantic filesystem ou encore RDF filesystem) ainsi que sur la gestion des catalogues de photographies ou encore de musique en MP3, a publié une entrée intitulée Tags, ontologies, community and feedback. Revenons un peu plus en détails sur certaines des suggestions faites.

On peut lire beaucoup de choses contradictoires sur les carnets Web qui touchent aux tags (étiquettes), aux taxonomies, au Web sémantique. Dépendant du camp dans lequel on se trouve, les opinions diffèrent. Une mythologie se développent petit à petit des deux côtés.

Rojo is a FREE web-based service that lets you efficiently read RSS feeds from publishers big and small, ranging from millions of blogs to the New York Times. There is NO SOFTWARE to download and only Rojo (rhymes with mojo) offers ALL these features

an article about various solutions for tags-system (flat-hierarchy) database implementation

an experimental forum (bulletin board) using a flat hierarchy (tags)