The most useful part of this exercise to me was the Beelerspace introduction to Del.icio.us, or rather from that blog to a rather obscured link to another post by the same author about how Gmail uses tags instead of folders to organise email's (which is a ramarkably good system).
I tend not to use bookmarks on the web; generally I have too interest in going to sites other than the ones I can get to easily via google (yay google), as well as having so few subjects I would actually either go to or remember I have previously searched for to make it worth my while.
I wonder how long it will take dubious advertisers to start spoofing tags? Google's extremely effective search strategy was a response to people who abused meta tags to gain site rankings in search engines; I can see people creating bots to create accounts to add tags to their site to gain eyeball traffic (this can be seen on some big software download sites which allow comments and ratings - because the site is so big the comments arn't moderated so arn't exactly useful).
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An interesting post - we have some complications to resolve in this new 2.0 era!
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