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From Instagramming to Insta Shopping: Is this the Future of Online Shopping?

From Instagramming to Insta Shopping: Is this the Future of Online Shopping?

  Online shopping is a term that we have known for a long time and with the digitalized progresses in the commerce sector the whole shopping experience is getting to a next level. So, what does shopping have to...
By Merve Özüner on 09/23/18 Comments Off on From Instagramming to Insta Shopping: Is this the Future of Online Shopping?

Automated Ontology Structure In Folksonomy

My master thesis is finished! I’ve made it available for download for everyone interested in hybrid folksonomy/ontology Web organization. Download Automated Ontology Structure in Folksonomy (.pdf,  3100 kb) Abstract The purpose of this research is to evaluate automated folksonomy...
By Maarten Hoogvliet on 09/05/10 1

Classification, culture & the Flickr.com tag

Web 2.0 tagging systems like Flickr’s categorize the website’s content bottom-up. The classification is powered by users applying their common sense and intuition; wisdom-of-the-crowd, resulting in a folk taxonomy of everything that is to be found in the Flickr...
By Maarten Hoogvliet on 10/15/09 1

From Metaphysics to Metadata
Jorge Luis Borges, tagging, and social networks

In his short story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbius Tertius the argentinian writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges imagined a place with a completely different perception of reality than ours. In Tlön "the prime unit is not the verb, but the monosyllabic...
By Nicola Bozzi on 09/28/09 Comments Off on From Metaphysics to Metadata
Jorge Luis Borges, tagging, and social networks
‘last.fm’, Mainstreaming the Long Tail?

‘last.fm’, Mainstreaming the Long Tail?

On the blog on Last.FM you can access the Mainstream-O-Meter which is interesting if you consider the long tail (Anderson) theory. It becomes a ‘mainstream’ interest to have an obscure music interest to end up high in the ranking....
By saskia korsten on 09/22/08 Comments Off on ‘last.fm’, Mainstreaming the Long Tail?

Meta-humor at Daily Kos

This diary at Daily Kos confused me at first, because it was completely empty. No title, no text: there was nothing there. But looking at the various tags for the diary makes it clear why:
Justification for Iran War,...
By Michael Stevenson on 02/12/08 1

Del.icio.us and Procrastination

I've finished a short piece on tagging as a form of classification, called tagging-delicious-and-procrastination/">Getting Things Done?
Why do tomorrow what can be put off until the day after?
I've been reading some classic texts on categorization and how...
By Michael Stevenson on 02/11/08 Comments Off on Del.icio.us and Procrastination
Tag clouds as a research object

Tag clouds as a research object

Tag clouds are a nice way to visualize the content tags of a website. Flickr started this trend when they displayed a “All-time most popular tags” tag cloud on their front page. The size of the tags in the...
By Anne Helmond on 01/09/07 2