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  • Folksonomy is also called social tagging, “the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content”.

    Best Social Bookmarking Sites | myFiveBest 2009

  • It is possible to examine the use of unstructured tags and extrapolate a schema, called a Folksonomy, that reflects the evolving view of the community and supports advanced search and personalisation.

    D-Lib Magazine 2008

  • "Folksonomy" services chosen were the social bookmarking sites - del. icio.us., furl, and the social news sites - reddit.

    Internet News: Effectiveness of Folksonomies 2007

  • "Folksonomy" services chosen were the social bookmarking sites - del.icio.us., furl, and the social news sites - reddit.

    Internet News: Social Bookmarking Archives 2009

  • "Folksonomy" has now reached a similar fertile-adult stage with the coinage of "personomy."

    Boing Boing: March 26, 2006 - April 1, 2006 Archives 2006

  • Towards the beginning of the announcement was the following: "Folksonomy" has been voted the word most likely to make web-users "wince, shudder or want to bang your head on the key-board" -- in a poll to mark the tenth birthday of the word "weblog" by finding the single most irksome new word to have been spawned by the Internet.

    Making the News - Anil Dash 2007

  • Mele Robinson » Blog Archive » Social Bookmarking: Organizing the Web with "Folksonomy"

    Writing English 2009

  • Then you have the whole Folksonomy/SocialNetworking thing of taking into account ratings of your “friends”, etc. Reply

    Scripting News for 4/23/2007 « Scripting News Annex 2007

  • Working downunder, the challenges are still at the base level of building web 1.5: (Structured) User Generated Content; Blogs, Image, Video Uploading, Searching and Sharing; Meta-Search; Folksonomy; Local Social Networks.

    Olsen Twins hit the Powerset Hot or Not Attention Radar Networks. Ben Barren 2007

  • (November) … Yahoo buys del. icio.us (December) … Folksonomy makes the NY Times Magazine “Year in Ideasâ€? list (Decemember).

    2005 – The Year of the Tag « Lorelle on WordPress 2006

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