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Gene Smith

"Tagging: People-powered Metadata for the Social Web"

We??™ll call this a collaborative tagging model.
simple tagging
Flickr and Photo Gallery use what we??™ll call simple tagging systems. Because they allow
tagging of the original resource only, there is no aggregate view of tags for resources.
These distinctions are important from an architectural point of view. In Chapter 7 we??™ll
look at the technical design of both simple and collaborative tagging systems.
Five Common Tagging Pitfalls (and Their Solutions)
Most tagging systems??”and most social software systems??”face a few common
obstacles when they start out. These problems usually involve getting people interested
in the system, making sense of the data people create, and reducing the impact
of antisocial users.
the Cold-start proBlem: Boosting interest and aCtivitY
Here??™s a familiar situation faced by many social software systems: you launch the
system on Monday and expect it to be abuzz with activity by Wednesday. Things look
promising on Friday when a few people try it.


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