Week 5 Bookmarking or Social Tagging?
My initial impressions of bookmarks online and social tagging were not what I thought it would be. I and others are probably familiar with creating bookmarks in your browser. Social tagging to me referred to using folksonomies to link data to one another webpages. How could they work together? Which is better? The first article we read this week is about social marketing. It describes sites that use these functions. I will use Pinterest as an example in this area. Social tagging is defined as: "Social tagging is a way for online users to categorize and share content. Within a social tagging system, users describe and categorize web content with a set of their own keywords, called "tags," and diverse content is searched and shared using these tags. Because tags generated by individual users also help other users search and organize content, the collections of individually generated tags are called "social tags." (J-Stor D...