Filed under: Aggregation, Labelling, Labels, RSS Feeds, RSS Strategy, RSS Subscribers, Semantic Web, Syndication Feeds, Tagging, Tags

Search Engine Land echoes something I said today while offering AOL an brown bag on RSS, “reliance on search and time spent with search may diminish as RSS feeds and other structured content delivery mechanisms are adopted by users.” Spiders and bots are just sophisticated web scrapers. RSS offers better ways of looking at content. Read more…

No Comments » Posted on May 27th, 2007 by Chris Abraham

Filed under: Folksonomy, Labels, Tagging

“A folksonomy is a user generated taxonomy, typically Internet-based, that categorizes content such as Web pages, photographs, Web links and other web content using open ended labels called tags. The process of folksonomic tagging is intended to make a body of information increasingly easier to search, discover, and navigate over time. A well-developed folksonomy is ideally accessible as a shared vocabulary that is both originated by, and familiar to its primary users. Two widely cited examples of websites using folksonomic tagging are Flickr and del.icio.us.” Via Wikipedia

No Comments » Posted on May 27th, 2007 by Chris Abraham


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