Freetag - an Open Source Tagging / Folksonomy module for PHP/MySQL applications: Found this via a trackback to my previous post about tagging. It’s a ready-made API for implementing a tagging system in your app.
Freetag is an easy tagging and folksonomy-enabled plugin for use with MySQL-PHP applications. It allows you to create tags on existing database schemas, and access and manage your tags through a robust API.
I love that name: folksonomy. It’s like flipping the bird at the darling of high-brow information architecture: the much-vaunted “content taxonomy” (which I’ve theorized is dying anyway).
Via Confused Kid (the name of the site, not an actual child).
The idea of "tagging" content is suddenly everywhere. With Flickr and del.icio.us and Technorati embracing the concept of tags, suddenly it's getting some broad acceptance. But what are "tags"? At the most basic level, they're just keywords — categorization without a master table of categories. Categorization that people…
The taxonomy was always supposed to be the be-all and end-all of information architecture. A good, solid category structure was how all the information in an enterprise was supposed to fit together. But they're harder to build than you think. There are shades of gray and complications. You…