Tags and tagging are a big part of the Web 2.0 ethos. Instead of sorting items into folders, you describe them with a series of words. The words you use, the ‘tags’, are up to you. Some people refer to this as ‘folksonomy’ in the sense that tags are home-grown and created
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The Inquirer, curmudgeon central at the best of times, isn’t entirely pleased about the arrival of the read/write web, social media or the whole ‘letting ordinary people onto the internet’ thing. Yesterday’s article — ‘Web 2.0 is for complete twonks’ — is a masterpiece of spite and elitism, which left me chuckling even as Techdirt: Attention All PR People: Stop Sending Us Press Releases move to RSS says Amy Gahran (tags: PR RSS) Social Media Club » The Importance of Social Media Hmmm…the future of Social Media, next steps [for getting there] and changing the world. (tags: blogs socialmedia media) ProgrammableWeb: Less than a week after the service’s third birthday, social bookmarking service del.icio.us has announced an important milestone on its blog: …del.icio.us has just passed the mark of 1 million registered users! That’s more than triple the number of users we had just nine months ago. We can hardly believe it ourselves (although the smell of smoke Techcrunch’s Marshall Kirkpatrick reveals an interesting new technology development designed to improve the podcast format: Seattle based podcast discovery and management service Pluggd is unveiling a major new feature at DEMO this weekend that combines speech recognition and semantic analysis to let users search for and skip to parts of an audio file Pew Internet & American Life Project has released its second Future of the Internet survey, with experts and pundits broadly agreeing that by 2020: A low-cost global network will be thriving and creating new opportunities in a “flattening†world. Humans will remain in charge of technology, even as more activity is automated and “smart agents†|             | |||
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