Distributed Tagging and Auto-Complete – an example

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From a somewhat hysterical slashdot thread examining the user generated tagging systems in Flickr, del.icio.us and the like came a reference to this little experiment to introduce auto-completion and suggestion of del.icio.us tags based on a user’s previous tags. This is a step in the right direction – if it can start to pick up tags from the overall site, then maybe one of the issues with this overall approach, lack of synonym support and inconsistency applying tags, maybe isn’t as bad as it first appears. – SWL

2 thoughts on “Distributed Tagging and Auto-Complete – an example”

  1. It was a bit buggie (i.e., unusable) for me, but the idea is very cool. Give people prompts to help them dynamically choose de-facto keyword vocabularies, or extend as needed…

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