That the tagging of data objects is a big part of the way a lot of websites work today isn't really a surprise but apparently businesses are started to use such things in their internal databases:
Should enterprises care? Yes. First, tagging systems are much cheaper than having a staff of taxonomists (or taxidermists). Second, they scale much better. Third, tagging ecosystems (or folksonomies, as the Web 2.0 hipsters call them) bring you much closer to the end-user or customer. Amazon.com, for example, is pushing quickly into customer tagging to augment its central product catalog. The company will learn faster how its customers perceive and use its products as a result: If customers put tags such as ‘beach house’ on certain products, Amazon will know they’re not just for breakfast anymore.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/19/...rinsight_1.htmlBut wouldn't this kind of thing be much more inaccurate in small scale environments even as it has proven to work in the larger scale. Each individual "tagger" might be better or worse at the process of description and when you only have a few taggers it would surely result in an error. There is a guy named Clay Shirkey who thinks I'm wrong:
