Thomas Vanderwal – Tagging that works – infocloudsolutions.com

Thomas has posted the slides on his blog here

• Folksonomy is the result of personal free tagging of pages for ones own retrieval and usually done in a shared environment.


• The less you have to think about tagging, the better (i’d also add, the less you feel you need to think, the more you will tag)


• Taxonomy (business) VS Folksonomy (‘Customer’) = merge for a product


• ‘refindability’ isn’t being covered by products.


• art of the pivot – hmm, I didn’t understand this..


• easy tagging – ‘yes / no tagging’ or plus and minus – making suggestions of tags and letting a user make a decision just by clicking.

Misc Links

• tagcommons.org


• librarything.com


• rawsugar.com

Jeff Bezos

• Over 5 billion items in S3 now


• 900 something million requests per day