XFML Core aka version 1.0: exchanging faceted metadata language
XFML - eXchangeable Faceted Metadata Language.
>XFML is a model to express topics, organised in hierarchies or trees within mutually exclusive containers called facets. It also expresses indexing efforts: metadata you have assigned to pages. It lets you publish this information in an open, XML based format. Finally, [...]

buzztracker - 2005-05-18
From the “Interesting Visualization of Information” category:
Buzztracker creates world maps of showing the major locations for the day’s news.

The relative size of the circles on the map indicate the number of news stories about each place (bigger cirlce, more stories). Clicking on the circle for the site, brings up a listing of [...]

Joi Ito’s Web: Ten Million Blogs Tracked
> This weekend Technorati tracked its 10 Millionth Blog. It is a chinese blog, on mblogger.cn, and it appears to be a blog talking about glassblowing, with some really cool pictures. Unfortunately I don’t read Chinese so I can’t tell…
Just in case you thought blogging was going away soon, [...]

Shirky: Ontology is Overrated — Categories, Links, and Tags
Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags
From Clay Shirky’s Blog:
>This piece is based on two talks I gave in the spring of 2005 — one at the O’Reilly ETech conference in March, entitled “Ontology Is OverRated”, and one at the IMCExpo in April entitled “Folksonomies & Tags: [...]

Headshift’s Protytpe of BBC News Tagging
Headshift has set up a prototype which allows users to tag BBC News stories.
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Facet-based site navigation systems provide a way of browsing complex data sets without forcing a formal taxonomy onto the data. Facet-Based browsing is different than other methods of crawling information. A common system for navigation is a Taxonomy where you start at the top of the tree and browse your way [...]

Why did I build this blog now? To demonstrate the power of tagging and of folksonomy as an enterprise collaboration and communication tool. There are several key parts of this integration picture that have finally come together (at least for me).
The first element is the growth of tagging - the ability of [...]

### MyWOCS: My Virtual Organization Collaboration Suite ###
#### Triple-A - Authentication, Authorization, Accounts ####
* Authentication - has to do with you identity provided by identity provider
* Authorization - has to do with your attributes. How do you combine those attributes especially when they come from different systems and they [...]

Guess-able URLs are URLs in which a novice user can guess the format. These are often an overlooked but important aspect of social software. If you know about del.icio.us and have a basic understanding of the URLs for del.icio.us, you can make guesses about the format of a suite of URLs.