Infoworld using Del.icio.us for Related Content

Via Dave Weinberger on Many2Many: Matt McAlister says Infoworld is now using Del.icio.us to add folksonomic functionality to its articles. This is important because now we’re seeing existing sites adopting folksonomies…and not just a few cool folksonomy sites. Months ago when I started getting on the folksonomy bandwagon this was the major hurdle and the major question everyone had…Are they useful for the rest of us?

The way that Infoworld is using them is interesting: the editors are tagging the content and then pulling down those tags from Del.icio.us to get to related content…so they’re harnessing both writer tagging and user tagging…hmmm.

So, folksonomies seem to be useful to at least one major publication…