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This article talks about the concept of tagging.

What's a tag? Think of a tag as a simple category name.
Bloggers categorize their posts, photos, and links with any tag that makes sense.


Extracts:

On social networking sites like Orkut or Friendster, people join, and then declare their alliances to each other explicitly. On sites that employ tagging, the networks emerge, implicitly, out of the shared interests of users. Order isn't proclaimed, it just happens.

"It's like Friendster for knowledge as far as I'm concerned," says Howard Rheingold. "I look to see who the other people are on del.icio.us who tag the same things that I think are important. Then, I can look and see what else they've tagged ... And isn't that part of the collective intelligence of the Web? You meet people who find things that you find interesting and useful -- and that multiplies your ability to find things that are interesting and useful, and other people feed off of you."

Tagging has the potential to spread beyond just a few creative Web sites. Users of Google's Gmail can add "labels" to their e-mail messages -- the equivalent of tags for e-mail. Matthew MacLaurin, a program manager in the social computing group at Microsoft Research, thinks that tags are the future for computer desktop organization: "I personally believe that, over time, tags will rival, if not replace, folders as a primary way that users create organization ... Eventually it will be more like folder names -- unnoticed and absolutely essential."

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