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April 4, 2006

Flitic: feed folksonomy

Filed under: rss, folksonomy, readers

Flitic is simply a feed folksonomy…instead of bookmarking normal webpages, you bookmark feed URL’s.
They seriously need to think about enabling OPML support so each tag can be a Reading List…del.icio.us has been hacked this way.

RSSor seems to be a more advanced feed folksonomy as you can also read feed contents like an RSS Reader, but still lacks OPML to enable instant Reading Lists.

Rojo also has a feed folksonomy by aggregating user subscriptions organised in user tags…Etamp does much the same (again, no OPML in site).

H20 Playlist could be used as a feed folksonomy which generates OPML but it isn’t this type of service.

I thought by now we would have more feed folksonomies, there are so many bookmark folksonomies…

Next we need a folksonomy where people submit Reading Lists, which can be tagged.

[ADDED 12/04/06: aggRSSive]

OPML to Wiki

Filed under: wiki, opml

OPML2wiki…not really sure what’s going on here, seems like OPML2TXT to me.

A similar tools is OPML2HTML…this generates HTML code from your OPML…see here.

Repository and OPAC tagging

Filed under: General, library, folksonomy

Connotea now allows repositories running on EPrints to add tagging to their service via the tagging tool.

Bookmark the article from the repository to Connotea
See tags applied to an article (only if it has already been bookmarked)
See links to other articles that share those tags (filtered to articles in your repository)
…del.icio.us also recommends items for a given tag
See Related items for a bookmark

See some other methods on an earlier blog post
…I really like the idea of social bookmark services being an extensible module to an external database.
There are services like FreeTag but I’m talking more about using an existing service as part of a driver to your service.

Maybe library OPAC’s could try this as an experiment, if it doesn’t work to your liking, just disable the feature…the perfect folksonomy to try this with is Library Thing, or Reader2.

You could also leverage on the annotations, ie. comments field in the bookmark services to describe the library item.

So for each library record you could see what other items have been applied with the same tags, also see related items, and recommended items.

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