Folksonomies: Unique features
Thoughts on social bookmarks, folksonomies, tag-based aggregated blog portals…a quick outline on some of the unique features
…these are based on some of the tagging services I have covered, too many to keep up with…
Simpy
Boolean searching
Full-text searching
Multiple Topics (also search feeds across Topic inbox)
Groups
Notes channel (text posts)…each note has a permalink, although lacks trackbacks and comments
Click-throughs
Connotea
Aggregated comments
Groups
Tag description (tag notes)
…too much else to mention
Shadows
Aggregated comments (general and user level)
Shadow page (details)
Formal groups (not private)
Ratings
Tagifieds
Text posts
Permalinks with comments (or permatags… this link explains the difference in controlling the URL ID)
Groups
…too much else to mention
Tagsurf
Text posts
Permalinks with comments, and trackbacks…even each comment has a permalink, seems each comment can also be tagged
CommonTimes
Great user interface and presentation
Jots
Calendar
Groups
CiteULike
Groups
Permalinks
…too much else to mention
Blinklist
Bookmark channels and flagging
(View your bookmarks by recent, popular, favourite)
Groups
(View a group page to see each members latest bookmarks and tag cloud)
Click-throughs (quickstart)
Spurl
Domain level linkbacks
Full-text search
(still haven’t checked out this service properly)
Furl
Full-text search
Search feeds
Great interface
(maybe Spurl has this as well)
Netvouz
Categories and tags (maybe Spurl has this as well), is this similar to Furl topics and keywords
Suggest tags when you highlight text or from the title
(still haven’t checked out this service properly)
Raw Sugar ADDED 20/09/05
Categories (hyperlinked tag bundles)
Customised banner
Export search box and category level headings
Full-text search
Contacts list
Sort search, by popular or recent
Statistics
TagFacts
Text posts (notes) with comments, and permalinks coming soon…not sure about trackbacks.
Wists
Images
Extra context tagging…like a kind of namespace
…also see comment 13 on this post about context in tagging
(still haven’t checked out this service properly)
NumSum
Spreadsheets
Permalinks with comments
del.icio.us
For tags
Tag bundles
System tags (podcast feed)
Topic inbox
Playtagger
Active Channel
del.icio.us networking
del.icio.us fans
TextSnippets [ADDED 18/10/05]
Markup code notes
Permalinks with comments
NoteTagger [ADDED 20/10/05]
Text posts (notes) (similar to making a blog post)
Permalinks with comments
(same as TextSnippets without focusing on code boxes, and same as TagFacts but has permalinks with comments for very permalink)
Clipmarks [ADDED 2/11/05]
Clips (excerpts)…also records origin of link
Permalinks with comments
Aggregate comments you make, and also comments made to you (see and interact in real-time)
Folders
Latest bookmarks title index
Mini-search box for My Clipmarks and Public Clipmarks
More lists
Tag_apps (one of my del.icio.us tags)
SW Collection: Social Bookmarking Galore!
Social Bookmarking Tool Comparison
Social bookmarks chart version 1
Wikipedia - Social Bookmarking
See my del.icio.us tag for customising your own folksonomy (or server-based)
Too many folksonomies to cover, please add any suggestions in the comments.
Bookmarks update [ADDED: 12/12/05]
[ADDED 24/04/06: ma.gnolia]
[ADDED 30/05/06: Diigo : social bookmarks and annotations]
[ADDED 17/07/06: Latest social bookmarks]
[ADDED 19/03/07: Snipitron]
[ADDED 20/03/07: decipho]
[ADDED 26/04/07 : Meshly - post by IM]
[ADDED 05/07/07: CoReap]
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Tagzania, Folksonomy applied to maps. Each tag combination, you can map it.
Comment by Luistxo — September 5, 2005 @ 3:39 pm