PUBLIC MARKS with tags tagging & folksonomy

la near real-time view of website popularity trends as reflected by the del.icio.us social bookmarking service. All URLs that have been posted by a minimum of two people in the past sixty minutes are displayed, ranked by the total number of recent posts.

* Through selective search and perception, we subconsciously seek data that supports our existing point of view, and avoid contradictory evidence.

"I’ve been thinking a lot about categorization, tagging and bookmarks. Everyone seems to have an opinion on why and how social bookmarking will change the browsing experience, and how services like Joshua Schachter’s Del.icio.us have an impact on categorization and taxonomies. There are a lot of projects around this topic, and this post is a dissertation of possibilities."

__ D-Lib Magazine; April 2005; Volume 11 Number 4; ISSN 1082-9873; Social Bookmarking Tools (I); A General Review; Tony Hammond, Timo Hannay, Ben Lund, and Joanna Scott; Nature Publishing Group; {t.hammond, t.hannay, b.lund, j.scott}@nature.com

''… In this post, I propose a simple, portable design, contrast my design choices against some other possibilities, and then provide an initial implementation of that design in Perl. …''

Gordon Luk’s Freetag, an Open Source Tagging / Folksonomy module for PHP/MySQL applications

At the start, let me confess that I struggled with this topic. From my first encounter with tagging (on systems such as del.icio.us

TagCloud is an automated Folksonomy tool. Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds. Clicking on the tag's link will display a list of all the article abstracts associated with that keyword.

A social bookmarking site for news readers

My Web 2.0 BETA - save pages and tags

My Web 2.0 BETA

Yahoo! Search

lets you save and tag your favorite Web pages and create your personal searchable Web page to share with your friends. Tagging is a quick and flexible way to categorize your favorites.