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  • Wordle
    Create beautiful word clouds from text, URL, or RSS feed.
    www.wordle.net
  • Wikipedia: Folksonomy
    Description of folksonomies, collaborative categorization schemes that use tags created and assigned by users. Includes the history and origin of the concept, and the difference between a folksonomy and a folk taxonomy.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy
  • TagCloud
    Automated Folksonomy tool. TagCloud searches the RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from the content, and lists them according to relevance.
    www.tagcloud.com
  • Semapedia: The Physical Wikipedia
    Project aiming to use Wikipedia to turn cell phones and mobile devices into smart travelguides by tagging physical locations with bar-coded URLs (known as Semacodes) which point the phones to relevant Wikipedia articles.
    www.semapedia.org
  • FotoTagger
    Tool that allows users to add movable notes and tags in photos and share, publish, and upload them to other sites.
    www.fototagger.com
  • Placeopedia
    Online application allowing you to connect Wikipedia articles with places, and then use the geographic database to browse or syndicate articles by the locations they describe.
    www.placeopedia.com
  • Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata
    Academic paper on folksonomy and user-generated metadata, arguing that folksonomies and tagging systems offer an alternative to professional or author-created metadata schemes.
    www.adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/folksonomies.ht...
  • Digg Spy
    "A real-time view of activity," Digg Spy provides a running list of new links as they are being dugg on Digg. Incoming links can be filtered by popularity and type.
    digg.com/spy
  • TagCrowd
    Visualize text as a tag cloud.
    www.tagcrowd.com
  • Folksonomies: Power to the People
    Paper analyzing the uses, limitations, and peculiar properties of folksonomies or user-generated metadata schemes. By Emanuele Quintarelli of the International Society for Knowledge Organization.
    www.iskoi.org/doc/folksonomies.htm
  • Wired: Order Out of Chaos
    Article giving an overview of folksonomies, collections user-generated and assigned categories or tags used to organize information online. From Wired magazine,
    www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.04/view.html?pg=4
  • You're It
    Blog on tagging, folksonomy, and collaborative categorization by a group of information architects.
    www.tagsonomy.com
  • Ajaxonomy: Del.icio.us Spy
    Running list of links added to Del.icio.us. Filter incoming links by keyword. "Watch the world bookmark the web as it is happening," noted Techcrunch.
    www.ajaxonomy.com/deliciousspy
  • Freetag
    Open Source tagging/folksonomy module for PHP/MySQL applications, allowing programmers to create, access, and manage tags on existing database schemas.
    www.getluky.net/freetag
  • Tagbert.com
    Tag aggregator, where users can find photos, products, links, and other results related to a keyword or tag used online.
    www.tagbert.com
 



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