links for 2006-01-19

A social analysis of tagging (Rashmi SInha)

"Why do people tag? For many, tagging is for sharing their own information and watching others. Even if you tag mostly to remember your own stuff, it is difficult to remain untouched by the presence of others."

(tags: tags tagging socialsoftware rashmi_sinha psychology)

Posted by Gene Smith on Jan 19, 2006

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Posted by Gene Smith on Jan 19, 2006. Before this there was links for 2006-01-18. Next up is links for 2006-01-20.

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Gene Smith is a principal with nForm, one of Canada's leading user experience consulting firms. He writes about information architecture, interaction design, community, the web and other such topics. More >

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