DogEar + Tag my Ebusiness IBM

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So IBM have "sold" their ThinkPad business, but they want to keep tagging. I digg. Some kewl developments going on within The Big Blue : Known as Project DogEar. What would be really interesting would be some hardcore tagging/folksonomy approaches taken into the enterprise (then marketed to the mainstream - it doesnt seem that delicious is going enterprise or mainstream consumer anytime soon, which I think is slightly disappointing, they are the natural custodian of the space), Remember when IBM started pushing E-Business and running those ironic ads - they should do it again ("Blog, what you dont have a blog", "No I have an RSS Feed. I tag it whereever I go", "Is that like a podcast ?"), or when Microsoft jumped on Dot Net. For now though, its a neat start, and one more companies should be exploring in a range of spaces, depending on the business they are in. Some interesting real time blogging by Joho from within an IBM event on social networks in Cambridge.

"DogEar. Del.icio.us for inside the firewall. It's a research prototype now available throughout IBM. David Millen demos it and shows that the suggested autocompletions for tags include the number of other people using that tag, a way of quickly driving a folksonomy [although it also encourages the downside of folksonomies: conformity]. Within IBM, there are almost 17,000 bookmarks (generated in 2-3 months), with only 10% of them private. The tags retain an association with the person who made them. It shows people who have the same tags as you, deriving a social network from a semantic one. You can import bookmarks from del.icio.us. There are group bookmarks as well, something del.icio.us is working on adding. At IBM someone did a Firefox extension so that searches in the Firefox search box first do a query against DogEar bookmarks and then does the search on your choice of engines. As a result, you get the high-quality tag-based results first."