May 2nd, 2006

The Del.icio.us Lesson

The amazing popularity of the bookmarking site Del.icio.us is one of the hallmarks of the current social software renaissance happening on the Web. Along with Flickr, Del.icio.us is a poster child of tagging, a simple feature whereby people attach words or phrases to an item. In the case of Del.icio.us, those items are bookmarks.

While Del.icio.us rose to prominence, much was made of the ability to aggregate the tags that the service’s user population created. The resulting framework, called a folksonomy, promised to redefine web navigation. If users could tag their own bookmarks and navigate to them through a direct tag-based interface, then there was really no need for an overarching, expert-developed taxonomy. In addition, if Del.icio.us could aggregate the bookmarks over all users, they could come up with a folksonomy for everybody, based on how the total population actually valued and referred to the content.

One of the hardest problems in web design is to speak the user’s language. With folksonomies and tagging, the web site could be designed with, and evolved by, the user’s own words. Unfortunately, somewhere along the line the vast majority of excited technologists (including me) forgot the original reason why people use and enjoy Del.icio.us. I call this reason the Del.icio.us Lesson, and I first posted about it last December in Learning more about Structured Blogging. Since then, that post has become the most referenced post on Bokardo. This post is an attempt to further illustrate the Del.icio.us Lesson.

Personal Value Precedes Network Value

The one major idea behind the Del.icio.us Lesson is that personal value precedes network value. What this means is that if we are to build networks of value, then each person on the network needs to find value for themselves before they can contribute value to the network. In the case of Del.icio.us, people find value saving their personal bookmarks first and foremost. All other usage is secondary.

As people use Del.icio.us more, and in order to gain more personal value, they use tags to be able to find their bookmarks later. Tagging isn’t even the primary function of Del.icio.us. Most of the tagging done on Del.icio.us is done secondarily, and for personal use.

The social value of tags on Del.icio.us is only a happy side-effect. Even though most of the ink spilled about Del.icio.us is about the social value, it’s really not the reason why people use it.

Similar to Google aggregating links that were originally created for taking readers from one document to another, Del.icio.us can aggregate tags in order to find out how people value content. If 1,000 people save and tag the same bookmark, for example, that’s a good sign that they find value in it. But to think that people tag so that this information can be aggregated is to give people a trait of altruism they just don’t possess.

Blinded by the Aggregation Light

Unfortunately, the ability to aggregate has blinded many software developers to think that tags are a cure-all to the success of their software. Tags have almost become a requisite feature in new software. I’ve received many emails in which developers try to sell me on the merits of their brand-new software based mostly on the ability of potential users to tag things, as if users inherently enjoy tagging things as a matter of course. Real people, in contrast, tag for their own benefit. And they surely won’t tag if the incentive to do so isn’t clear.

Aggregation, in general, is probably more effective as a second-order feature of software. If we create features just to aggregate them, without providing users with tangible value first, then people simply won’t use the features. My guess is that aggregation technologies which prove most useful will be ones that are added to some activity that users have already started doing without the promise of any aggregation benefits.

Why Del.icio.us Tags aren’t like Meta Keywords

Shortly after Yahoo bought Flickr, Danny Sullivan, of Search Engine Watch, was dubiously skeptical of tags. He compared them with the meta keyword tag, observing that meta keyword tags have failed miserably on the Web and aren’t recognized by major search engines. He was certainly right: meta keyword tags aren’t useful anymore.

However, Del.icio.us tags aren’t like meta keyword tags because of the Del.icio.us Lesson. Meta keyword tags provide no personal value whatsoever. All of their value is social. They’re for aggregation engines to find and tell other people about. In other words, they’re for getting attention only. Del.icio.us tags, on the other hand, provide personal value each time someone uses them to recall a bookmark.

Danny was right to be skeptical, though. Some tagging initiatives don’t seem to provide much personal value at all. On sites like Amazon and Technorati, who have their own versions of tags, it is not clear what personal value users are getting. On Amazon, we already have multiple wish lists for items we want to remember. On Technorati, the tags seem like a pure-play for aggregation benefit without any real benefits for users. Dave Sifry’s suggestion that “Many bloggers use this (Technorati’s) tagging capability to help get their content found by people who are searching for a particular topic” sounds an awful lot like the value promised by meta keywords. Going further, the Del.icio.us Lesson might help us parse Dave’s statistics, especially this one: 47% of blog posts have tags or categories associated with them. If the Del.icio.us Lesson is predictive, it would suggest that nearly all of that 47% would be categories that users are applying for their personal value on their blog, rather than tags applied for attention only. Any way to separate out those numbers, Dave?

Working toward Valuable Services

The level of innovation and discussion in and around tagging is phenomenal. There is increasing talk about tagging in intranets, there is Rashmi Sinha’s great piece on why tags are easier than categories, and there is even a Collaborative Web Tagging Workshop at WWW2006 this month. Tagging, it seems, has hit the big time. Everybody wants to know how and why tags work, and the best working example is the site that started it all: Del.icio.us.

Philipp Keller (who will be speaking about tags at WWW2006) in a post about how to spread the word on tagging, asks “is the tagging revolution stuck?“. This is a common question these days, as the number of services trying to leverage tagging skyrockets.

I say no, tagging isn’t stuck. Just don’t try and make it the primary thing to do. Instead, make sure personal value preceeds network value. Then you’ll have plenty to aggregate.

Additional Reading:

Rashmi Sinha A social analysis of tagging (or how tagging transforms the solitary browsing experience into a social one)
Dan Bricklin Systems without guilt where every contribution is appreciated
Joshua Schachter Tagging Session at Carson Summit
Dave Winer The utter futility of geekness
Shelley Powers Cheap Eats at the Semantic Web Cafe
Delicious Stats

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Comments ( 391 Responses so far )

1. Eric on May 3rd, 2006 (Comment) #

Nice, Josh. The second section kicks ass.

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2. Terry Steichen on May 3rd, 2006 (Comment) #

As to the admonition “personal value precedes network value”, yes, but..

The network value must happen - it won’t achieve the del.icio.us effect without it. That is, the ‘happy side-effect’ of the network effect is actually essential.

Also, it might be useful to add that the reason basic, direct personal value must be present from the get-go is that (a) it takes time for the network value to become manifest, and (b) it takes time for a new users to absorb and appreciate the network value.

Finally, just to add some emphasis: the network effect, while it usually/always involves aggregation, also requires some clever processing to extract useful meaning.

3. TDavid on May 3rd, 2006 (Comment) #

“He was certainly right: meta keyword tags aren’t useful anymore.”

If this statement was broadly intended, it is untrue. We use meta keywords for one of our sites quite usefully for indexing of a site wide search. I’ve seen other sites that do the same.

It has uses for site owners and site visitors if used properly. That it was primarily spammed up for third party search doesn’t mean meta tag keywords doesn’t have other uses.

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4. george on May 4th, 2006 (Comment) #

Brilliant Josh, one of the best views on the del.icio.us phenom put to words - well done.

“However, Del.icio.us tags aren’t like meta keyword tags because of the Del.icio.us Lesson. Meta keyword tags provide no personal value whatsoever. All of their value is social. They’re for aggregation engines to find and tell other people about. In other words, they’re for getting attention only. Del.icio.us tags, on the other hand, provide personal value each time someone uses them to recall a bookmark.”

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5. Alex Barnett on May 4th, 2006 (Comment) #

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6. Bill H-D on May 4th, 2006 (Comment) #

I agree that this is very well articulated, Josh! I am already parroting you:

“As Josh Porter recently argued, personal value precedes social value in folksonomies”

And as others are pointing out, personal value doesn’t supercede social value, of course. But you didn’t say that.

So there’s a follow up here, I think, that could look at how implementing faceted browsing really depends on the precedence of personal value to avoid needlessly complex views/crowded UI and to get the mix of device/human interaction right. I am thinking about this quite a bit lately.

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7. Harry Chittenden on May 4th, 2006 (Comment) #

I’m a del.icio.us addict. I start my day with “popular” to see a wonderful array of new stuff. Reading it beats the hell out of the news.

I thank both the folks who tagged (for their own personal benefit) and del.icio.us for aggregating the results. When I open a new site, I know it’s been vetted by a number of folks. Their “recommendations” provide me with a great browsing experience.

The value of the network is its size. The more people who participate, the better the recommendation, and the harder it is to spam. Unfortunately there’s a lot of spam.

Here is my suggestion. Make the site easier to use. I have tried to use the site three separate times with customers to accumulate URLs useful to our projects. They are all daily computer users and none could figure out how to use delicious. Each cussed it (and probably me as well) and went back to using email for accumulating sites.

Make the site easier to use and the daily postings will take off like a rocket.

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8. Eric on May 4th, 2006 (Comment) #

This is the only part I have to disagree with:

On Technorati, the tags seem like a pure-play for aggregation benefit without any real benefits for users.

Personally, I get the same benefit from using Technorati tags that I do from using Del.icio.us tags - it makes it easier for me to find posts again when I go looking for them.

I agree with the thrust of your post though: Tagging, for me, happens to be a good way of organizing information I want to keep track of. I’m not going to go around tagging stuff if I’m not going to derive a personal benefit from it though. I can’t imagine why anyone would.

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9. chillu on May 11th, 2006 (Comment) #

I’m currently developing a social webbased rss-reader - and also thought hard about the possibility to let users tag the posts they read (check rojo.com for similar behaviour).
i came to the conclusion that tagging is just too time-consuming on “throwaway-items” like news-posts.
plus, subscribing to certain tags instead of direct feeds adds more information-clutter rather than clearing it (e.g. think of a subscription to the tag “mac”…).
eventually i ended up counting “direct ratings” (on feed-basis) and “indirect ratings” (read-status of an item) to generate personalized filters. in case you’re interested in beta-testing -> syndicure.com

10. Wesley Hein on May 12th, 2006 (Comment) #

Manual trackback from Wesley Hein’s Web 2.0:
The Del.icio.us Lesson: Now don’t forget it!

11. Wulf Forrester-Barker on May 12th, 2006 (Comment) #

You seem to have a bit of a downer on Technorati!

The personal benefit I gain from tagging my blog posts and pinging Technorati to note that it has been updated is a quick way of catching up with what other bloggers have been saying on the subjects I’ve been writing about. Often that’s a very fruitful way of making connections to new information sources of interest to me.

Therefore, the service does have personal benefit to me, which is why I keep on using it - I definitely agree with the main thrust of your argument.

12. Josh on May 12th, 2006 (Comment) #

Yes, Wulf, I am a downer on Technorati Tags. I just don’t see the value they provide. Now, reinterpreting blog categories as tags I understand, but not the tagging feature itself.

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13. jimy on August 24th, 2006 (Comment) #

Great article, Josh. Tnx u

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14. Praca Oferty on September 25th, 2006 (Comment) #

yeah good job;) especially second parrt!

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15. meble bambusowe on October 14th, 2006 (Comment) #

Very interesting, especially second part, Fortunately, the Web is evolving and it may be different in future.
Thx for great article.

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16. Pozycjonowanie on October 20th, 2006 (Comment) #

yeah good job;) especially second part !!!

17. Restposten on October 22nd, 2006 (Comment) #

Really delicious this article, well done…

18. Tottigol on October 25th, 2006 (Comment) #

delicious like del.icio.us

19. Webkatalog on October 25th, 2006 (Comment) #

Personally, I prefer Digg - it is very similar to delicious, but offers more functionality and a great UI.

regards, Jonas

20. john on October 27th, 2006 (Comment) #

So what about the personal and network value of tagging oneself? Tags at verbdate seem to satisfy both these criteria. Great piece and I totally agree! as selfish as this sounds

21. Pension on October 30th, 2006 (Comment) #

Very interesting, especially the second part, the Web is in progress and it will look totally different in the future.

22. Volker on November 9th, 2006 (Comment) #

A very instructively lesson.

@Pension
Nobody knows, what´s the prospects!

23. Antywirusy on November 10th, 2006 (Comment) #

Hi,
Great article - good job! You are professional writer, it’s very interesting when I reading it.

24. osare segretaria prostituta on November 11th, 2006 (Comment) #

nic site

25. Arzt on November 11th, 2006 (Comment) #

I also prefer digg, because it is more customizable…

26. Camions on November 14th, 2006 (Comment) #

Reinterpreting blog categories as tags I understand, but not the tagging feature itself?

27. Used Buses on November 14th, 2006 (Comment) #

Hi, I misunderstand this text’s.

28. Saku on November 16th, 2006 (Comment) #

I preffer digg aswell, it has some more features taht i like that deli.cio.us doesn’t have.

29. Anwalt on November 24th, 2006 (Comment) #

Yes, there are some funtcions missing in del.icio.us comparing with digg…

30. rachunkowość on November 25th, 2006 (Comment) #

interesting. thx :]

31. Sandstrahlen on November 26th, 2006 (Comment) #

In comparison with digg i like delicious more, I think in future it’ll be stronger than the others …

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32. timoroso on November 27th, 2006 (Comment) #

Very nice site

33. Richard on November 27th, 2006 (Comment) #

A description to the point.
Thanks

34. Shop Optimierung on December 3rd, 2006 (Comment) #

Very good and great site with very good look and perfect information…i like it

35. BUses on December 4th, 2006 (Comment) #

This description is professional and to the point.

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38. Onlineshops on December 6th, 2006 (Comment) #

A very interesting site, I think. The Idea of Technology was new for me but worth to be read and thought abot it (although I’m not a native english-speaker and have some difficulties whith this language)

39. Owen Daniel on December 7th, 2006 (Comment) #

Hey Josh - wicked article, keep up the good work - recently signed up to this social bookmarking thing and now just can’t get enough!

Overdose

40. Osiol on December 8th, 2006 (Comment) #

Good points. I hadn’t thought of it in terms of the Wisdom of Crowds (and how individuals should ideally work separately), but now you’ve mentioned it, it really helps me understand why social services should be constructed in this way - thanks!

41. Plastische Chirurgie Frankfurt on December 8th, 2006 (Comment) #

Wow. Very impressive.

Supreme concept of a personalized web portal.

I look forward to using this as my browsers’ start page.

Keep up the good work!

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42. figa on December 10th, 2006 (Comment) #

43. cna firenze on December 10th, 2006 (Comment) #

Very nice site, I like it

44. Freddo intrepido on December 10th, 2006 (Comment) #

I love your great and useful website

45. opisy gg on December 12th, 2006 (Comment) #

Great job, thanks for you! Cheers.

46. eMule Forum on December 16th, 2006 (Comment) #

Helaas is het alleen een redelijke ‘ego-app’: je kunt niets delen. Ik zou best graag zo’n note willen uitwisselen met degene over wie de aantekening gaat bijvoorbeeld. Het zal dan ook een hele dobber worden om dit project succesvol te maken. Een zogenaamd ‘del.icio.us effect‘ (persoonlijke waarde wordt waardevol voor het netwerk) is er immers niet. Maar eerlijk is eerlijk: het is een handig stukje AJAX!Tags: web2.0, web 2.0, posticky, postit, notes

47. Thomas Heizung on December 17th, 2006 (Comment) #

great site, great work. just keep it up thx

48. einemillioneurohomepage on December 17th, 2006 (Comment) #

This is a very neat application. It is really interesting. Instantly useful for me.

49. Onlineshop Anmelden on December 17th, 2006 (Comment) #

Great and excellent article t’s realy helpful. Thanks again.

50. Serwey emule on December 18th, 2006 (Comment) #

This is the kind of thing that can only work if an app is really “sticky” even for the first users of the system. And it’s true, you can benefit from use of a social bookmarking system without needing anyone else to participate, but each added participant makes the whole system more valuable. This recognition that personal value precedes network value is now commonly being referred to as the Del.icio.us Lesso

51. Power Dir on December 19th, 2006 (Comment) #

Ja mysle ze tagowanie daje bardzo duzo przy pozycjonowaniu strony - zwlaszcza ze ze strony glownej otrzymujemy dzieki tagom wartosciowy lin do podstron serwisu.

52. TRucks on December 21st, 2006 (Comment) #

Thank you for this support. It’s clear, concise and helpful.

53. rachunkowosc on December 24th, 2006 (Comment) #

Wow! This article really opened my eyes on this topic! I never was much concerned with the issues presented here, but now I really think it is a serious matter to reslove!

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56. celeronm on December 25th, 2006 (Comment) #

Helaas is het alleen een redelijke ‘ego-app’: je kunt niets delen. Ik zou best graag zo’n note willen uitwisselen met degene over wie de aantekening gaat

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58. pentium m celeron on December 29th, 2006 (Comment) #

59. Get the Party Started on December 29th, 2006 (Comment) #

Great article - good job!

60. Brautkleider on January 1st, 2007 (Comment) #

Hi, great work last year, so now I want to use the right time to wish you and all the visitors here a great and successfull year 2007

61. John on January 2nd, 2007 (Comment) #

Great work, thank you.
Happy new year!

62. fatboy on January 3rd, 2007 (Comment) #

I cannot understand why I should use del.icio.us or something similar. I have my Firefox bookmarks - that’s enough for me

63. Josh on January 3rd, 2007 (Comment) #

fatboy…the reason to use a service like del.icio.us is to have your bookmarks stored in a place you can access from anywhere, even if you’re not on your own computer using Firefox.

64. APuestas on January 3rd, 2007 (Comment) #

my thoughts exactly, Josh, i have so many bookmarks not handy, when I have to use an Internetcafe, the social bookmark sites are great, I use furl btw

Cheers, the Poker God

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69. finca on January 9th, 2007 (Comment) #

delicious is really really cool… i use it daily

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71. lf2 on January 10th, 2007 (Comment) #

Great work, thank you.

72. Internet Werbekampagne on January 12th, 2007 (Comment) #

It´s a very interesting theme and a simple answer of many questions

73. Bahis on January 12th, 2007 (Comment) #

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74. Brautkleider mieten on January 18th, 2007 (Comment) #

Hi Josh, nice pleading, I just started to use Del.isio.us some week ago, it is a great too, but as you say: it is important to speak language of your user… and to be honest, I`m afraid that it is too complicate.. that means the project is so complex that you have to spend a long time to understand the potential power of the page.. so I only use it to host my bookmarks, but I think than you waste a lot of chances…

75. Rezepte on January 18th, 2007 (Comment) #

It´s very interesting

76. Tanie linie lotnicze on January 19th, 2007 (Comment) #

Fantastic article covering some points I really needed some good usability info for.
Best regards from Poland

77. tanzband, partyband on January 19th, 2007 (Comment) #

Thanks for this cool article

78. J Doom - Small Business Web Development on January 22nd, 2007 (Comment) #

I use to be sceptical of tags with Flickr and Del.icio.us but after starting a Small Business Website Development company you definitely come to enjoy looking up and finding data by using tags.

I was actually researching some del.icio.us stuff when i hit this page. Thanks

79. opisy na gg on January 23rd, 2007 (Comment) #

Really great job, fantastic article!

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83. opony on January 27th, 2007 (Comment) #

I too

84. Hochzeitsband on January 27th, 2007 (Comment) #

Great work, thank U very much!

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85. Meble on February 2nd, 2007 (Comment) #

Enjoyed browsing through the site. Keep up the good work. Greetings nad thanks from Poland Aukcje

86. Programy on February 2nd, 2007 (Comment) #

Interesting article!

87. Onlineshops on February 5th, 2007 (Comment) #

88. Arnaudlimit on February 6th, 2007 (Comment) #

You might know that in Marketing there’s a concept that summarizes the idea that consumers of all sort will try first and foremost to help themselves before even thinking of doing something for the rest of the community. It’s called the “What’s-in-it-for-me ? “, and that has to be the first question to be answered if anybody wants to sell something to someone. Get that particular question answered and you will sure hit the best value proposition you would ever make. Everyone has its own needs. And the tool is an answer to a need, not the other way round.

My guess is that Delicious works for 3 main reasons :
1) first of all, the information is centralized : once you’ve tagged your infos, you can get your infos from anywhere on earth. The bookmarking, a tool that already existed and that already had a value for anybody using it takes on another, greater level. You have a variety of other web2.0 sites opening that uses the same simple idea : make an existing topos-related valuable tool accessible on-line. In those cases, the web plays a great role in adding value by sharing its technical/ morphological specificity with “old” tools
2) Second reason : one can tag the content and (more)easily find it again later.
3) You can use Delicious as a new kind of Search Engine machine : the content you are looking for will most probably be tagged by a number of people on the web That found it useful enough to bookmark it. There is a great tool for at least 3 categories of persons : information seekers, early adopters (that are always on the look out for new toys) and for marketers that want to know what’s hot on a particular keyword..

Yet, and that’s where I join you, all of those reasons take the “Delicious Lesson” as their basis : if I found the tool interesting enough for me, for my very own needs, I will be glad to use it and I won’t mind sharing my own infos. But as you perfectly say it, Josh : it will have to benefit me first, for me to accept to use the tool. The community benefit comes only because everyone using Delicious agrees to share his infos.
In short : take a village, tell everyone : “hey people ! From now on, you will be able to get drunk cheper at the new saloon opening at the centre of the village.” You will soon see the exode starting and, sure enough, you will have people chatting with each other and stating a new community in a second. Yet, what draws the drunken is not the community : it’s the benefit of getting drunk, cheaper. The community will play a role later on : once the alcool price hits the fan - and it sure will in our greedy society -
the drunken will only stay for the community..

Oh..and by the way : I ‘m no drinker ! I swear, it’s the truth !

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89. Feinkost Versand on February 13th, 2007 (Comment) #

Intresting article, excellent resource list.

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90. osama on February 14th, 2007 (Comment) #

my ‘favourites’ on my browser. (It always seemed such a waste that I had entered a certain site as a favourite at work but then when I got to my home computer, I had to start all over again.) It’s gotten so that I go to my delicious tags rather than to my favourites. For me, “personal value precedes network value”. Now, I know that I should be tagging for class (network), but most of my other tags are meant for me – the so-called “Delicious Lesson”, coined as such by Joshua Porter. I also appreciate that when I go to tag an article, I see what others have used to tag it. That provides me with some ideas about what others are thinking when they’re tagging. A lot of times I agree/ can see why they’ve used a certain tag and other times, I wonder where they are coming from, how they’re looking at the same site from a completely different viewpoint than I am. Interestingly, this is described as a “feedback loop” by Udell (2004), a sort of “asymmetrical communication between users through metadata. The users of a system are negotiating the meaning of the terms in the folksonomy, whether purposefully or not, through their individual choices of tags to describe documents for themselves.” (Mathes) […]

91. Jarek on February 19th, 2007 (Comment) #

The bookmarking, a tool that already existed and that already had a value for anybody using it takes on another, greater level. You have a variety of other web2.0 sites opening that uses the same simple idea : make an existing topos-related valuable tool accessible on-line. In those cases, the web plays a great role in adding value by sharing its technical/ morphological specificity with “old” tools

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95. Sklep komputerowy on February 21st, 2007 (Comment) #

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97. Meru Woman on February 21st, 2007 (Comment) #

Well the social bookmarking is used by spammers too often… I don’t know how to get this bad stuff undercontrol.

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112. projektowanie stron www on March 7th, 2007 (Comment) #

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135. msimn on March 22nd, 2007 (Comment) #

I’ve always asked myself why is Del.icio.us SO popular. Thanks for the article. It’s very straight to the point and valuable. Great choise of links for additional links!

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137. TJ on March 22nd, 2007 (Comment) #

Very good read. Seems I’m only 10 months behind the curve.

What’s very interesting about this whole thing is that you have people with common tool profiles (blogs, digg, del.icio.us, etc) with very different views on tags. I just got done reading a blog about how you should use the suggested tags del.icio.us gives you to keep things consistent for all users - kinds of defeats the purpose. And you’re right about tags in Technorati - it’s really just SEO (meta tags were notoriously abused by the SEO folks).

Maybe we need a kind of data dictionary so that you can use whatever you want, but then you can flip a switch to get matched up.

138. torben on March 23rd, 2007 (Comment) #

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144. Jon on March 26th, 2007 (Comment) #

Absolutely correct. I’ve use del.icio.us because of saving bookmarks. Tagging is secondary, and can at first was confusing anyway.

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166. Music Videos Clippor.com on April 5th, 2007 (Comment) #

Cool post, now i’m going to add my sites (Ewa Sonnet , Britney Spears and Paris Hilton ) to del.icio.us Thanks

167. Paris Hilton on April 5th, 2007 (Comment) #

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168. Britney Spears on April 5th, 2007 (Comment) #

Yeah, now I know how to use delicious. Thanks.