From September 2005 to June 2006 a team of thirteen scholars at the The University of Southern California's Annenberg Center for Communication explored how new and maturing networking technologies are transforming the way in which we interact with content, media sources, other individuals and groups, and the world that surrounds us.

This site documents the process and the results.

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So, what does it mean that yahoo has wrapped del.icio.us into its media cocktail?

While I wouldn't presume to have any special insight into what it means when del.icio.us and the other properties are mixed in the same stew, I might suggest that del.icio.us is, when you invert it, a rich database of individual's (and groups, I supposed) self-authored descriptions of their interests, activities, projects — the whole thing.

Turning this into a way to create useful indices to people for a variety of purposes seems most obvious. Knee jerk purpose says advertising, but I'm betting that clever heads will find a host of more promising kinds of ways to create vibrant enhancements to existing social formations and ways in which culture is circulated amongst networked publics.

More than tagging pages on the web — tagging "my stuff" in the world is still something TBD. Through del.icio.us, I can provide indices through taxonomies and folksonomies to things that are of interest to me, or related to a project. Some inferences can be made about my personality, or the things in which I am engaged. But that's a degree removed from an explicit articulation of who I am, what I have, what I want to get rid of, what I want to share, what I need, etc. Think of what a distributed MySpaces might look like, without the hassle of having to manage yet another social software application.

[via Russell Beattie's Notebook]

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Submitted by jbleecker on December 11, 2005 - 5:48am.
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all your tags belong to us

Submitted by fbar on December 12, 2005 - 10:20am.

With del.icio.us and flickr, Yahoo now owns two of the most notable tag-driven sites. I guess technorati is next on the acquisition list...

Place-based tags?

Submitted by jbleecker on December 23, 2005 - 2:37pm.

Do you mean something like Socialight or Yellowarrow? Or something more like a Google Map maker for your phone?

maps and tagging

Submitted by fbar on December 12, 2005 - 12:02pm.

Does anyone know of interesting applications combining maps and tagging? What I have in mind is something like a googlemap where the pointers are associated with tags, making it to possible to display all the physical points associated with a particular tag.

If it doesn't exist, we should invent it.

well that sucks...

Submitted by todd on December 13, 2005 - 5:55pm.

Time to start a new start up. It was funny to read the almost unanimous praise for the move on the deli.cio.us blog. Well, I suppose it is smart from the perspective of the people who started deli.cio.us (read: $$$) and also Yahoo (read: tech/cred/capabilities). But for us average folk, I think this is a bad, bad thing. I'm all for loose coupling and aggregation. NOT oligopolies. So we're at Google v. Yahoo v. AOL v. MS. Any other heavyweight there? Is there anything left to buy? Maybe Google could buy Haliburton.

I hope Google buys

Submitted by kvarnelis on December 13, 2005 - 11:22pm.

I hope Google buys Haliburton. After all, their mission is not to be evil. That would be something of an improvement, no? But it might wreak havoc with Haliburton's business model.

I guess I find deli.cio.us and flickr are both bizarrely limited and was never a great devotee of either. On the other hand, if yahoo were to buy writely, that would be terrifying...

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