Facebook Sees Flood of New Traffic from Teenagers and Adults
The coMscore press release on Facebook’s massive growth in use among non-college age users.
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More on faceted tagging.
From the ASIST Bulletin, this article appears to describe the need for faceted tagging and how FaceTag is attacking the problem.
FaceTag: Integrating bottom-up and top-down classification in a social tagging system
“FaceTag is a working prototype of a semantic collaborative tagging tool conceived for bookmarking information architecture resources. It aims to show how the flat keywords space of user-generated tags can be effectively mixed with a richer faceted classi
via John Furdrow — Seems more general than the same author’s works on faceted tagging, but seems like it would be a helpful into to his line of thinking.
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“A collection of academic papers and books about identity online and online identity.”
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Have a look at http://iNeedSomebody2tag.com/welcome/en . There is a web experiment regarding to folksonomies and collaborative tagging systems.
Maybe it is of interest for you.
Regards,
Tobias Kowatsch
Thanks Tobias. I took your survey/experiment. I look forward to seeing you results. Do you plan on writing them up in English? I shared your survey with my subscribers. Best of luck.