• 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.

  (tags: facebook statistics SocialSoftware)

• Faceted Folksonomy | davidsturtz.com

  via johnfudrow — Post on Faceted Folksonomy. This is one of my favorite topics as of late. Expect to hear a lot about this in the near future. Basically it is a concept for collecting richer user contributed metadata.

  (tags: metadata folksonomy tagging faceted)

• InfoSpaces » Blog Archive » The Evolution of Social Tagging

  More on faceted tagging.

  (tags: folksonomy tagging metadata faceted facets)

• FaceTag: Integrating Bottom-up and Top-down Classification in a Social Tagging System — ASIST Bulletin June/July 2007

  From the ASIST Bulletin, this article appears to describe the need for faceted tagging and how FaceTag is attacking the problem.

  (tags: toread facetag faceted facets tagging folksonomy EmanueleQuintarelli)

• 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

  (tags: toread faceted facets folksonomy tagging)

• Folksonomies: power to the people (Paper presented ISKO Italy-UniMIB meeting : Milan : June 24, 2005)

  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.

  (tags: EmanueleQuintarelli toread faceted facets tagging folksonomy Folksonomies)

• citation-formats – Microformats

  “This page will display several different types of citation format types.” In depth comparison of Dublin Core, MODS, bibTeX and Z39.80

  (tags: wiki microformats hcite citation citations bibtext)

• tiara.org » Online Identity Bibliography

  “A collection of academic papers and books about identity online and online identity.”

  (tags: identity20 identity bibliography research psychology)

• tiara.org » status in social media

  “I finally got a glimmer of a dissertation idea today: status in social media.” – Includes a nice discussion of status in Web 2.0 geek culture.

  (tags: culture SocialSoftware status)

• The Real Paul Jones » Blog Archive » OCLC NextSpace virtual roundtable – Q1

  Paul is blogging his answers to the questions being given to panel participants. The topic of the virtual roundtable is online communities. Other panel members include Fred Stutzman, Lori Bell, and Ed Castronova.

  (tags: oclc virtualcommunities)

The new WorldCat.org is a significant step forward. I am especially impressed with the efficient permanent urls (isbn/isbnnumber and oclc/oclcnumber) and the faceted browsing offered on the left of the results screen. Additionally, I like the breadcrumb trail that accompanies the faceted browsing. I am also impressed with the search speed and the simplicity of the interface. They have also describe a number of ways to integrate WorldCat into one’s browsing habits and websites. I look forward to seeing results appearing in search engine results. Overall, it seems like a significant step forward, but I need to look at it more carefully later.

The press release is here. This is possibly the nicest library catalog I have seen they use a database/search company instead of a typical opac vendor and appear to have tweaked it extensively. AMong other things, it clusters results based off subject headings, has advanced relavency rankings, and allows browsing of the full collection. It also facilitates browsing in other innovative ways.