Web Tidbits - Tagging & Web 2.0 List

Tagging
Heather Green at Business Week reports on the Pew Internet research study about the prevalence of tagging among Internet users.  From Flickr, to social bookmarking to blogs people are increasingly "tagging" or categorizing content with 28% of Internet users reported to have done so according to the research report.  The report defines tagging as "the process of creating labels for online content".  Tagging was found to be about equal between men and women and more prevalent with younger Internet users.

In an interview with David Weinberger, the author of an upcoming book that covers this topic, he states that "tagging lets us organize the Internet in our way".  This user generated categorization in turn creates a powerful network effect for others to access information.

Web 2.0 List
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