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The changing Web

Learning with e's

Delicious, Diigo), microblogs such as Twitter, mashups (e.g. has spawned concepts such as folksonomy, ‘Darwikianism’ and the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ (Kamel Boulos et al, 2006). Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, 27, 65-67. geotagging). References Barsky, E. and Purdon, M. 2006) Introducing Web 2.0: Maramba, I.

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Social Bookmarking: Your Favorites Really Want to be Free

Mike Taylor

Tagging is a flexible, informal way of categorizing that allows you to associate keywords with online content (web pages, pictures & posts). Even if you’re not sure what tagging is, you’ve already seen it in action on sites like Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Diigo, and many others. Tagging helps bring order to online content.