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Diigo is a social bookmark service with a difference as it also annotates webpages (sticky notes)…it has a bunch of powerful features.

The interface is super clean and friendly and the tour is magic…learn more…help.

It’s been around for a while but it is still invitation only…they are going to launch soon.

Bookmarking

Similar to many of the other services…tags, users, etc…

When you look at bookmarks on the home page you can expand a bookmark to see comments, you can see all the comments users have left on that bookmark (you don’t even have to bookmark the page yourself in order to comment).

The only thing is, where can I see all bookmarks I’ve commented on (whether I’ve bookmarked it myself or not)…when you comment on a bookmark you can choose public/private, if I comment on a bookmark not in my collection and mark it private, where do I see this, I can’t seem to see it on the home page.
There must be a section to see bookmarks I’ve commented on, I just can’t see it.

There is a URL history feature…who else has bookmarked the same page.

You can also copy a link to your collection, but the tags copy as well, I wish I could tag it before I submit.

Save pages via a toolbar or a bookmarklet or mouse…at the time of bookmarking it will suggests tags or view your tag set, it also shows all comments, and you can mark it unread. You can also select a box to save it in other bookmark services at the same time, and save it in you browser favourites as well. Even more, you can send it to a friend while you are bookmarking the page…so much can happen when you save a page to your collection.

Every page is cached (click on snaphot)…this means full-text search.

Each tag has a feed, and you can also quick subscribe to each tag so you can read the latest from your inbox section (My Subscriptions).

Here is the community page.

Annotation

Not only can you bookmark pages but you can highlight and leave sticky notes in multiple sections of the page…this helps you remember why you bookmarked a page in the first place…also great for research purposes.

These highlights and notes are left on the page, next time you visit the page the highlights will be there, just hover your mouse over to read the sticky notes.

Furl has a clippings field, but it just appears in your bookmarks…it won’t appear when you re-visit the page…Clipmarks also clips sections of the page/s, but again it only appears in your bookmarks.

So this is the power of Diigo, you get to annotate pages and see these when you re-visit the webpage…also in your bookmarks you can expand a link and it will display notes/highlights you have left on the page (this is the same expand button that show comments), so you don’t have to go to the native page to see the annotations….you can even add more notes to the same highlight from here.

Earlier this month I posted, Granular Tagging or Index Tagging, this is basically tagging sections of a webpage, Diigo can highlight/note sections but not tag these highlights/notes…this may be a handy integration for personal research purposes.

Mouse

Right-click
- bookmark
- forward (email)

Highlight and Right-click
- bookmark and highlight
- highlight and forward
- blog this

Highlight (Left-click)
- bookmark and highlight
- highlight and forward
- blog this
- Search the web, bookmarks, blogs, etc…
- Copy with or without format

Back to it

Why not share your notes, email (forward) some of your bookmarks with highlights/notes to a friend, or if your notes are made public, others from the Diigo community will be able to see your notes when they visit a webpage (best of both worlds)
…so if several Diigo users highlight and leave sticky notes on a given page and make their annotations public, there will be a lot of useful information…I wonder if it will look cluttered or if you can turn off the annotated view for that session, or choose just to see your annotations…a little manual override [ADDED: found it in the view mode in the toolbar].

What I like about the user space is that each bookmark has a box, you can tick boxes (or tick the all box) then select from the action menu, such as forward (email), edit, delete, mark unread, etc…actually another choice is extract highlight, this takes you to a permalink where you can see just your highlights for that bookmark.

So you can see your highlights at the native page, via the expand link in your bookmarks, and at a permalink via the extract selection from the action menu.

There are 3 views for your collection: bookmarked recently, commented recently, unread.

If I decide to leave a comment on an old bookmark of mine, it will go to the top of the commented recently view, this must also happen if someone else comments on this same bookmark…still no section to see just bookmarks I have commented on (whether it’s in my collection or not).

Search

The toolbar can search your bookmarks, all bookmarks, users, even full-text…it will even search other engines: web, bookmarks, blogs, etc…clever idea as the toolbar can be used for stuff other than Diigo.

Watch out Simpy because these search features are just as comprehensive, check it out:

- with the words in Tags
- with the words in Title
- with the words in Text
- with the words in Comments
- with the words in Highlights
- with the words anywhere
- without the words anywhere

tag: word1 - find bookmarks with word1 in tags
word1 word2 - find bookmarks with both word1 and word2
word1 or word2 - find bookmarks with either word1 or word2
“word1 word2″ - find bookmarks with the phrase “word1 word2″
word1 -word2 - find bookmarks with word1, but not word2
word1* - find bookmarks with words containing word1 as a prefix
tag:word1* - find bookmarks with tags containing word1 as a prefix
tag:word1 -word2 - find bookmarks with tag word1, but not word2 anywhere
tag:word1 tag:word2 - find bookmarks with both tag word1 and tag word2
tag:(word1 word2) - same as above
tag:word1 -tag:word2 - find bookmarks with tag word1, but not tag word2
tag:”word1 word2″ - find bookmarks with the phrase “word1 word2″ in tags
title: word1 - find bookmarks with word1 in title
text:word1 - find bookmarks with word1 in text
c:word1 - find bookmarks with word1 in comments
h:word1 - find bookmarks with word1 in highlights

Once again using this to tag your blog posts is handy, you wouldn’t have trouble finding any of your blog posts.

Integration

Blog - Highlight a page and mouse click blog this, it will open a new blog post and insert the hyperlinks and text

Linkroll - re-syndicate the latest

Tagroll - coming soon

Similtaneous tagging - you can set it to save a bookmark in up to 9 other bookmark services everytime you save a page to Diigo…in my trial it seems to just save in a default or first tag (so you’d have to go to your other services and re-tag)

Blog synch - I wonder if it will save a blog post at the time of publishing your blog post…if so this could be a consideration of using Diigo to bookmark my blog posts (just wait for the Tagroll).
Even if you have to manually bookmark your blog posts, at least you can do this to 9 services at once and then later choose which service you really want to use…just this feature alone could be another product.

This is an awesome tool, some of the features, like the toolbar and the synching go beyond the call of duty

…it seems there will be some more social features coming soon like contacts/groups.

I like the idea of groups as Diigo will extend from personal research to a group research…at the moment you can share/forward your bookmarks, but the annotation viewing choices are either none, yours, or all.
In a group environment you could foward someone your annotated bookmarks or they could just login to the group account, and inturn annotate the same page, and hopefully the toolbar would let you view annotations from your group only (kind of has a wiki feel to it).

More coverage:
Library Stuff
Corante Web Hub Editorial
TechCrunch
Solution Watch

[ADDED: I’d like to see folders like Clipmarks, Spurl, netvouz, this way I can have channels or different research portfolios…bookmarks could live in multiple folders and have any tag, but I like the idea of having a bucket for a research project (all the bookmarks for that project in one URL).
I could use a tag as a bucket, but I’d rather a defined section for this purpose.]

An enterprise tagging article, “The Name Game“, mentions IBM’s internal suggestion box application called ThinkPlace…the entries in this box were first classified in a taxonomy, but soon user tags seemed more applicable. Besides the obvious I can see why, as ideas and suggestions may involve cutting edge terminology that the taxonomy just doesn’t keep up with.

Web 2.0 Suggestion Digger

This got me thinking, what about a web2.0 suggestion box, there are so many web 2.0 services out there, and we all blog about them, offer feedback, compare them to other services, make wishlists…

What if instead, we could contribute our suggestions to a central place…owners or services like Bloglines, del.icio.us, Rojo, etc… could subscribe to the tag RSS feed for their company name, and listen to what people have to say, and offer comments…anyone can rate these ideas, some entries may get many positive votes/ratings, inturn the company may think it’s worthwhile implementinga suggested feature.

So it’s kind of like Digg, but with tagging as well, and the content is focused on feedback/suggestions/wishlist…actually you are not submitting a URL, you are writing a text entry.
Also, categories may not be required as “Web2.0″ already is a specific enough category.

NOTE: web2.0 based memedigger lists like Buzzshout, and web 2.0 list are similar, but these are not focused on “suggestions”.

Features:

- user space
- users make a text entry and tag it
- each entry has a permalink
- others can rate it (actually voting may be more appropriate, or even both)
- others can leave comments
- all entries are aggregated into a tag cloud
- latest entries are on the homepage (most popular entries, most popular tags, etc…)

When you add an item you fill in the:

- title field
- body of text
- tag field 1 for the brand/company name
(even type in the URL of the company/brand name)
- tag field 2 for the type of service eg. RSS Reader
(if this was provided as a drop down selection menu, then you have the disadvantage of not finding a value that suits the service you are talking about..tags are better, especially if the service is the first of it’s kind
…ie. tagging over inhouse categories)
- tag field 3 to describe the suggestion

eg.

TITLE - Bloglines needs tags, not folders
BODY - I think tags are better than folders when organising your feeds, as feeds can live in multiple places…blah, blah, blah,blah, blah, blah,blah, blah, blah…
TAG (Service/Brand/Company) - Bloglines
TAG (Type) - RSS Reader
TAG (Keyword) - folders, tags,

Then someone can come along and add to these fields:
COMMENT - totally agree, it’s about time they catch up
RATE - 1 Vote

I guess you could have 3 tag clouds, one for the TAG (Service) field, one for the TAG (Type) field, and one for the TAG (Keyword) field
…maybe the last 2 fields could be merged into one.

Microcontent aggregation

This proposed service is based on a centralised idea…not sure if it could be aggregated like the edgeio idea.
This could be an option has people like to publish in their own place instead of having original content scattered all over the web…and plus you have to build a community which is very difficult.

Microcontent aggregating may need to still build a community, but the people are not required to congregate at the community house. That is, in “edgeio” people have to be aware to use the rel=tag “list” in order for their content to appear (re-syndicate) in edgeio, so the first stage is awareness, if people are happy with that as they blog they may choose to include the “list” tag and that’s it, they don’t have to go to edgeio.
So it may be more suitable for the publisher to apply some tags to their content where others can pick these up in order to re-syndicate the content.

Forum

Another way a company welcomes feedback is in a forum (if the service provides one)…these are usually divided into mini-topic forums to discuss; bugs, user issues, question, feedback, suggestions, etc. The topic forum called, “feedback/suggestion”, could instead be in the form of a Suggestion Box Memedigger tagging service instead of a forum.

2 scenario’s

A “suggestion box memedigger tagging service” can be of help for any company, it may be more powerful than a forum or a simple email service to send in feedback and suggestions.

The second application can be for a login user service around the topic of web2.0 companies, people can join and write text entries, and tag these entries…then others can leave comments and ratings.
The content of the text entries have to be about a suggestion or feedback to a given company/brand/service.

Is a narrow folksonomy really a folksonomy?

In a narrow folksonomy users can only tag their own contributions…Flickr is like this, but of late it has allowed others to also tag each others content (only if the creator of the item allows it), this is more inline with a broad folksonomy like del.icio.us…this was stated in section 2.1.3 of this paper.

Do both emerge a vocabulary?

del.icio.us does…everyone tagging the same item surely emerges a folksonomy.

If you can only tag your own stuff (narrow folksonomy), this is still user tagging, but the emergence factor isn’t designed into the system.

In del.icio.us you can look at a URL history page and see all the different tags people have applied to that item, these are called common tags. You can also see all the tags one person has applied to a bookmark (kind of a persononomy…he!he!)

The point is that when you tag an item, you can see all other tags already used and you may choose to apply one, or make up your own…over time you will see that a dominant tag has emerged for that item.

This also presses further, eg. just say the item in question is www.bloglines.com…then when you add another similar item like www.rojo.com, you may use the same tags.
So now a tag is emerging for not just one item, but for similar types of items, or a group of items.

And then, after a while you may go back to your collection and see how your tags compare with others for an item, and change them to help evolve the social vocabulary.

Whereas in a narrow folksonomy (like Flickr) it isn’t like this, if you are browsing Flickr and feel you want to bookmark someone elses item, you can’t unless the owner allows you…but then the purpose of Flickr is different than del.icio.us, as the content is more often user created/owned.

Also if you browse the web and decide to bookmark a page, if that page is already in del.icio.us it will suggest tags that people have already used…Flickr doesn’t work like this because each item in Flickr has it’s own permalink from the Flickr domain, so the only way you can add someone elses item to your own collection is if you are browsing within Flickr itself (and also only if the person has freed the item for others to tag).

A narrow folksonomy is only emergent if you look at an item and its tag/s that someone has added to the system, and you know you have a similar item, so you apply the same tag…or you are about to add your item but you search the system first to see if there is a similar item, if you find one you may apply the same tag/s to your item.
In this respect you are examining the vocabulary and viewing what items are inside these tags, in doing so you may use the same tags for your items.
eg. if you notice the tag “beach” has more photo’s with sand in it than the tag “sea”, you might decide to tag your item with the tag “beach” since it has sand in it.
Then when someone browses the tag “beach” at the general homepage they will see your item as you thought it sat nicely amongst the items of other users within this same tag.

To emerge a vocabulary this way is such a manual process that people won’t bother…and people tend to have created the bookmarks in Flickr, and since they moreso own a bookmark, it is more personal, and since it’s more person, the tags are a high chance of being personal.

In a narrow folksonomy a tag or index term doesn’t emerge for the one item…the only thing it does is allow users to tag items instead of having to choose from a fixed set, or letting a central body do the indexing full stop.

Questions

So it seems this design prevents an emerging vocabulary…so is it really a folksonomy (a narrow folksonomy)?

Does user tagging in a social setting instantly mean it is a type of folksonomy?…something I was picked up on once.
That is, if Flickr didn’t have the option at all for others to tag each others content, would this be a folksonomy at all or just straight user tagging in a social setting?

Better still, is user tagging of just your own items within a social system, a folksonomy?

If not, does this mean a vocabulary will not emerge?

To be classed a folksonomy, does the system have to allow global tagging (all users can tag the same item)?
(this is encouraged with suggested tags at the time of bookmarking, and common tags when looking at the URL history of a bookmark, and being able to view other user spaces)

All these seem to be the same question being asked in different ways.

In a system like Flickr the purpose really isn’t to emerge a vocabulary, but I suppose it isn’t in del.icio.us either for that matter.

It comes down to the purpose of the systems, even if Flickr had all the features of del.icio.us, a vocabulary wouldn’t emerge as people aren’t really that interested in bookmarking the same items.
It would be interesting to see the overlap of items across Flickr user spaces…we know in del.icio.us how many people have the identical item, eg. saved by 24 other people…can we know this in Flickr.

Interesting…

What is really interesting is that you can bookmark an item/page from Flickr in del.icio.us (it even shows a thumbnail).

Now I wonder if the Flickr URL’s can be isolated or sectioned in del.icio.us someway…actually del.icio.us does allow you to see just images from within the system via the system filetype.

Here is the part of del.icio.us that is an image folksonomy
…so there you have it, this part of del.icio.us could be studied to see how a vocabulary emerges for an image folksonomy (it would be good if all image URL’s had a thumbnail).

NOTE: to bookmark an image in del.icio.us you are just bookmarking a URL as usual, whereas in Flickr you can host an image that gives it its own unique URL, so Flickr is not only a social bookmarking service, but it is a image URL hosting service…I think this point alone makes a great difference in comparing the way people use both these systems.

This paper, “Position Paper, Tagging, Taxonomy, Flickr, Article, ToRead”, does a great job at analysing the designs, comparisons, purposes, etc of tagging systems….covering points like; system design and attributes, user incentives, tag usage, vocabulary formation, and a case study on Flickr.

[ADDED: In my Is a Reading List folksonomy appropriate? post I mentioned that others tagging your items may be deterimental over time as the content may change…for example if there was a Reading List folksonomy and everyone could tag the same item, just say the owner of that item decided to change the contents (eg. change the feeds)…the owner could then inturn edit the tags to suit the altered content, but others who have tagged this same item may not know this has even occurred, in turn their tags are outdated/wrong/misleading/noise.]

Earlier I posted on how del.icio.us recently split up the contents type of the inbox…the inbox is now for tag subscriptions, and the “your network” is for user subscriptions…makes sense.

Well now, if you go to “your network“, you will see a section on the sidebar called “your fans“.

These are people who have you in their network (you can set your network to private, so no-one can see which users you subscribe to).

I was pleased to see that I have over 20 fans…these people must like my link stream…glad to be of service.
I’m doing it for myself anyway, what not let others peer over my shoulder and capitalise on the rewards of my efforts.

If my fans like my stuff, there’s a good chance I’ll like their stuff, so off I go clicking on these users to see what they’ve got.

Now that I’m directly driven to view the accounts of my fans, I want to view other user accounts…hmmm, I’d love to search by a user field.

At the moment the search doesn’t specify fields (I think it searches in the title, tag, and comments field combined).

Check out Simpy and RawSugar for fielded searching, even combining them.

Feedback

I’d like to make bundle headings for my “your network section”, and also for the “your fans” section, not only that but I’d like these bundle headings to be clickable just like in the “inbox” section.

If you click on a bundle heading from the “inbox” (your tag subscriptions), you will just see a portion of the content from your whole inbox.
I’d even like to click on one subscription within a bundle from my inbox, and see the contents from just that subscription, at the moment if you do this it will just launch to that tag page, if you want to choose another tag from your inbox you have to use the back button to get back to your inbox.

Now how about our “tag bundles” headings (the user home page) being clickable hyperlinks, I’d love to see only bookmarks from tags within a tag bundle…RawSugar has this feature.

To go one step further, I’d like to do a search query within one of my inbox bundles or across my whole inbox, and for it to generate a feed that I can subscribe to in my inbox…Simpy has this feature.

People tagging is becoming the next logical step in the tagosphere…at the moment most “enterprise people directories” list a fielded profile and a photo, one of the fields will be called interests or speciality, etc…

What if you could tag yourself with your interests or areas of expertise, and what if others could also tag you, and likewise you can tag others.

If you want to see who is a likely person for a new project, just look up the people tag cloud, and click on the appropriate tag…here you will see a list of probable experts for the job, according to the opinions of others, and the expert him/herself.

The visual view of a People tagging tag cloud will display perhaps the strong areas of expertise of the company, or areas lacking (according to the staff view).
I may discover person A is an expert on something, and I don’t even know them, but person B does so they tagged person A…so thanks to person B for sharing his/her tacit knowledge.

As well as a company sending out broadcast email’s for new internal jobs, such as “we are looking for someone with this expertise to go to this country”…they could target possible applicants that they have found via the people tag cloud.

A question is, could people tagging be a faceted system…numerous tag fields…displayed in numerous tag clouds
eg.
Name: John Tropea
Languages: English, Italian
Nationality: Australian
Current Location: Perth
Locations worked: Melbourne, Perth
Projects:
Interests/Expertise:
etc…

The first 6 fields could be owner only fields, ie. no-on else but that person can fill in these fields, and the “Interests/Expertise” field is the usual tag field that anyone can assign.

In this example, we only need to address 5 of the 7 tag clouds: Languages, Nationality, Locations worked, Projects, Interests/Expertise
…tag clouds are great in their simplicity, you may notice that a lot of people in your global company speak French, not many staff are Spanish, a lot of people haved working in Tokyo (probably because a lot of people have worked on a massive project in Tokyo).

What about adding these clouds together: I need a person who speaks French, but is Australian, and they need to have worked on a certain project, and it would help if they are familiar with this location (but it’s not paramount), and most of all they need these skills…

To acheive this, just click on the French tag from the language facet, this will give a list of staff who can speak french
…then the nationality facet will only display the available nationality tags for all people who speak french, hopefully the Australian tag from the nationality facet is available, if so we click on this, now you have a list of people who are Australian that speak french
…then the project facet will only display available project tags for people who are Australian that speak french, hopefully the projectABC tag is available, if so we click on this, as we can see we have almost built our ideal candidate
…then the locations worked facet will only display locations worked tags for people who are Australian that speak french and have worked on Project ABC, unfortunately location123 is not displayed, maybe we will ignore this tag in our equation as it is not paramount
…then the skills/expertise facet will only display available skills/expertise tags for people who are Australian that speak french and have worked in ProjectABC, unfortunately the skill tag we are looking for is not present.

Choices…start again with the skills/expertise tag…you may find the correct skills tag, you may not find the correct location tag (but that doesn’t matter), then you may find the correct Project tag, and you may find the correct nationality tag, but you don’t find the correct language tag.

So your decision may be to go with this person, but also send along another person who speaks the correct language to help out…

Now you could enter this, example above, as a search string, or you can browse by adding…browsing may show you some surprises (serendipity)
…let’s not forget using OR, and NOT searches would also be helpful.

IBM has a working model for a people tagging module that is also incorporated into the people directory, it’s called Fringe Contacts.

Interesting to see what tags you give yourself, and compare it to what the enterprise thinks of you…you may be tagged “search” by lots of people, but not yourself as you are modest about it, but to others in your work context you may be seen as the search guru.

There is also reciprocate tagging, someone can tag you, and you meet that tag with something you think is more correct.

An extra feature of people tagging compared to bookmark tagging is that you can see all users who have tagged a person with a certain tag…in del.icio.us we can see all users who have saved a bookmark (URL info page), but we can’t refine this to a tag,
eg. we can’t see all users who have tagged the google homepage URL, with the tag “search”.

Other features:
- someone visually prominent on the tag cloud is likely to have a greater reputation for that skill/interest/expertise
- viewing a users space will display their social network…an empty space may reveal an unsocial person (or they night just not use the system)
- related people…from the paper:
“…is computed by finding people with the most tags in common with the person currently being viewed”.

So in our example above, the person we send along who speaks the language may be seeked by looking at the related people list first.

Fringe contacts has also been intergrated into IM, email, and the people directory…great idea
(since people tagging is a form of grouping contacts, you can email all people with a tag from your user space).

Finding experts via Social bookmarks

IBM also have a social bookmarking module called Dogear…people will tag documents, webpages, etc, that they are interested in, these interest areas may reflect their areas of expertise, or their learning of a new area.
This is not explicitly describing people (like Fringe Contacts), but we can gather a description of a person from the tags they use.

This is also a folksonomy, but the emerging vocabulary is another point of discussion, what we are interested in is what a user is interested in…if we examine the tag cloud, we can see what people’s interests are according to what they are not only reading, but find worthy saving. This again may show insight into developing areas of expertise.

Not only can we view a tag and get a picture of what the people in a enterprised are interested in, we can even view a user space, and see this directly…another benefit is that users can discover content saved by others, special interest might be with those that share common tags…as a result group bookmarking may develop or even communities of practice.

The article, Collaborative Tagging and Expertise in the Enterprise illuminates us with some situations where the access to a social bookmarks service is a real time-sensitive knowledge tool
…another article, Onomi: Social Bookmarking on a Corporate Intranet illustrates the benefits of enterprise social bookmarking.

Back to people tagging…this may almost be a social network anaylsis 2.0, by that I mean we are seeing relationships between people (these may not be explicit, ie. they may not know each other) but people are tagging others.
If a person gets tagged alot with a certain tag, we can evaulate they are the go-to person for that type of information, this is one of the key reasons for doing a social network analysis (SNA).
In saying this, a SNA is an area that will give us much more precise and various angles on relationships, but I think people tagging can result in a simple view of what a SNA provides.

Since librarians research for people and help them with current awareness, they know a lot of peoples interests, and can connect people with each other…well people tagging kind of takes care of this itself.
eg.
You may see someone has been tagged, or tagged themselves “wiki”, and you were certain you were the only one in the enterprise who knew about “wiki’s”…you goto their profile and read this person is from the IT busines unit. This is great, you always wanted to start a wiki, but didn’t know how to set it up on a server, or how to go about the technical aspects, or thought it would be too much trouble trying to explain the concept…now that you know someone else shares your interest, this will be a real driver to push something that’s been on the backburner.

The beauty of people tagging is that people are doing the tagging, you just set up the service, and people will populate the data, and networks form…very inexpensive.

The problem raised in the paper is if people don’t like being tagged with certain tags but are too timid to clarify the situation…also what about tag decay, some tags may become outdated, eg. a person being tagged with a project name…can the moderator remove tags in these situations.

Tagalag is basically the same idea, but on the open web. When you look at a user space on Tagalag you can also see their feeds, this tells us a bit more about the person.
Ziki, and Peoplefeeds are similar again, it is focused on a user collating all their content in one place, then you can tag yourself, so again this is people tagging, and once you find someone you can get even more insight by looking at their content, such as their bookmarks, blog feeds, photo’s, etc.
I think 43things also falls into this space (not sure if you can tag yourself)…and then their is SuprGlu which is just personal content aggregation via a river of news, basically a different visual display than a start page.

But this (Peoplefeeds, Ziki, Tagalag) is only one way people tagging, the great thing about Fringe Contacts, is that people can tag each other, this makes it a people folksonomy…well, I’m not sure, if it’s like Tagalag you can only tag a person by entering their email, you can’t find a person on the system and add and tag them to your account.

Related:
Zimbio and GROU.PS are similar, but they are more people/groups content networks, the content from various services in aggregated in the one place, but you don’t tag yourself or the topic…thus people can’t tag you or the topic how they see fit.

You can find a person via their social bookmarks user space, you can find their blog, you can find their people tagging user space, but to bring it all together like Zimbio is the ultimate user space, once you have found that person you can find out lots more about them…by the looks from the Fringe Contacts paper screen shots, it seems people tagging is just one module from a Personal Information Management (PIM) dashboard.

So, we can discover experts in an enterprise via looking at a social bookmarks tag cloud, and seeing who are the avid users for a tag…we can also discover experts from a people tagging tag cloud (this is explicitly tagging people)…from which ever module we find this user, we can then go to their PIM dashboard and learn more in depth.

NOTE: a PIM dashboard may contain modules for: a blog, forum memberships, social bookmarks, wiki, im, email, external news, rss reader…also viewable in a my news portal startpage, which is desktop view of the dashboard.