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Freitag, 18. März 2005

Cool patent application du jour: "Word-processing document stored in a single XML file that may be manipulated by applications that understand XML." — Dagegen kommt der IS NOT OPERATOR natürlich kaum an.

2005-03-18-patentlyAbsurd

Upcoming: Rudelcomputing aus den Helmalabors für Schwarmology.

Dann heisst's in Hinkunft wohl app.data in etwas geringerem Ausmass zu huldigen.

2005-03-18-helmaRudel

"Wikipedia is a social innovation. This social innovation will spread to other areas beyond just the encyclopedia. Software which enables collaboration is the future of the net."

sb: "It's not really categorization on Flickr -- it's about letting users remember. [...] The unfortunate thing about the term "folksonomy" is
that it implies that it's a replacement for categorization."

I think that tagging is mostly about letting users forget.

js: "The interesting group behavior is the tagging that isn't categorization, e.g., "To read" -- not a category, though it has a big group and a lot of social and user context. People make tags for groups working together, workflow in RSS -- that's what's most surprising."

"[In] Flickr you mostly tag your stuff for your own purposes, in Technorati, it's your stuff for others' purposes, and in Delicious, it's others' stuff for your purposes. They're different things, they don't necessarily flow together."