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- jny2cornell - Mar 19 2007 | tag, book, blog, folksonomy
This is an extensive post, revealing the results of a statistical comparison between Amazon and LibraryThing tags, and exploring why tagging has turned out relatively poorly for Amazon. I end by making concrete recommendations for ecommerce sites interested in making tagging work.
Interesting post on tagging systems; why they work well on LibraryThing, and poorly at Amazon.
Takeaways:
- People will tag, when it benefits themselves, but not if it only benefits others.
- You need a critical mass of tags to be useful to community and overwhelm spam-taggers and opinion-taggers.
- You generally want over 100 tags applied to a book to get both highly relevant and complete tags represented.Currently 43 comments on this post. Our friends at Peerworks (Shel Kaphan's non-profit tagging project, was one of the first to respond.
- chigaze - Feb 27 2007 | LibraryThing, Amazon, Book, Books, Classification, Community, del.icio.us, Information_Management, Social, Tagging, Taxonomy, imported:del.icio.us
Thoughts on tagging and when it works from the perspective of LibraryThing.
Tim looks at LT taga and Amazon tags. Basically tags work when users think they'll get something out of it.
- joe - Mar 01 2007 | amazon, books, tagging, web 2.0, folksonomy, librarything
- bobreb - Feb 21 2007 | tags, cds, tagging, imported:del.icio.us
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I think another reason why tagging doesn't work on amazon, is that you can already search for 'history' and get Guns Germs and Steel. It makes it seem like tagging doesn't do anything.