iStockPhoto Use of Social Tagging
Monday: August 13, 2007 8:51 PM
As you can tell, Collaborage went under the knife over the week to get a new look and feel. Since Web 2.0 is the perpetual beta environment, it makes sense to rebuilt my weblog every now and then. Anyway, I was looking for an interesting photo to ack as a lead and noticed an interesting use of social tagging on iStockPhoto. Seems that people that upload photos have the ability to set the initial tags for the item. This could be a librarian that actually does this function. As you browse or purchase you have the ability to remove a tag which is the reverse of normal tagging mechanisms. They have combined the initial benefits of a controlled vocabulary tagging system with social tagging, just in a reverse way. Very creative.
Monday: August 13, 2007 8:51 PM
As you can tell, Collaborage went under the knife over the week to get a new look and feel. Since Web 2.0 is the perpetual beta environment, it makes sense to rebuilt my weblog every now and then. Anyway, I was looking for an interesting photo to ack as a lead and noticed an interesting use of social tagging on iStockPhoto. Seems that people that upload photos have the ability to set the initial tags for the item. This could be a librarian that actually does this function. As you browse or purchase you have the ability to remove a tag which is the reverse of normal tagging mechanisms. They have combined the initial benefits of a controlled vocabulary tagging system with social tagging, just in a reverse way. Very creative.
