Bookmarks, Histories, and Tags.
What's next for professional researchers?
By Nigel HamiltonCEO Trexy.com & Turbo10.com
Bookmarks Histories Favourites Tags Social Bookmarks
Help – Information Overload!
• Takes time to apply a tag• Tagging something well is not easy• Tags can be inaccurate and
misleading• User bias – remember <META> tags?
• Is tagging the future?• What about the sins of search?
Not Always Helpful
“As We May Think” by Dr. Vannevar Bush.
The Memex - 1945An enhanced supplement to personal and community memory created by trailblazers.
Impact on the Web
Ted Nelson Tim Berners-Lee
Trailblazing
Trailblazers - “those who find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record.”
First we consultant ourmemories, “do I know the answer to that?”
If we don’t know, then we look for the answer ourselves.
If they don’t know, then we look for the answer ourselves.
Teoma
MSN
Ask JeevesLycos
Wisenut
Altavista
A9
CYCLE OF SEARCH
The End
Any questions?