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| Alphabetical | By Popularity (What's This?) | | - Wikipedia: Folksonomy
 - Description of folksonomies, collaborative categorization schemes that use tags created and assigned by users. Includes the history and origin of the concept, and the difference between a folksonomy and a folk taxonomy. - TagCloud
- Automated Folksonomy tool. TagCloud searches the RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from the content, and lists them according to relevance.
- Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata
- Academic paper on folksonomy and user-generated metadata, arguing that folksonomies and tagging systems offer an alternative to professional or author-created metadata schemes.
- Placeopedia
- Online application allowing you to connect Wikipedia articles with places, and then use the geographic database to browse or syndicate articles by the locations they describe.
- Semapedia: The Physical Wikipedia
- Project aiming to use Wikipedia to turn cell phones and mobile devices into smart travelguides by tagging physical locations with bar-coded URLs (known as Semacodes) which point the phones to relevant Wikipedia articles.
- Folksonomies: Power to the People
- Paper analyzing the uses, limitations, and peculiar properties of folksonomies or user-generated metadata schemes. By Emanuele Quintarelli of the International Society for Knowledge Organisation.
- You're It
- Blog on tagging, folksonomy, and collaborative categorization by a group of information architects.
- Wired: Order Out of Chaos
- Article giving an overview of folksonomies, collections user-generated and assigned categories or tags used to organise information online. From Wired magazine,
- Freetag
- Open Source tagging/folksonomy module for PHP/MySQL applications, allowing programmers to create, access, and manage tags on existing database schemas.
- Tagbert.com
- Tag aggregator, where users can find photos, products, links, and other results related to a keyword or tag used online.
- Ajaxonomy: Del.icio.us Spy
- Running list of links added to Del.icio.us. Filter incoming links by keyword. "Watch the world bookmark the web as it is happening," noted Techcrunch.
- Digg Spy
- "A real-time view of activity," Digg Spy provides a running list of new links as they are being dugg on Digg. Incoming links can be filtered by popularity and type.
- FotoTagger
- Tool that allows users to add movable notes and tags in photos and share, publish, and upload them to other sites.
- TagCrowd
- Visualise text as a tag cloud.
- Wordle
- Create beautiful word clouds from text, URL, or RSS feed.
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