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.

Google

Teoma

MSN

Ask JeevesLycos

Wisenut

Altavista

A9

CYCLE OF SEARCH

The End

Any questions?