Tag Based Sites
A tag is a keyword term that describes and is assigned to a document.
Tags are decided entered completely by human beings. Tag-based sites are meant for human use and are very interactive. These documents that have been tagged are found on different social sites, which can have various kinds of user involvement.
Tag based sites can generally be broken down into two different categories:
Social News Sites
These are sites that can have users submit as well as vote on existing news, which puts the stories into a taxonomy.
Social Bookmarking Sites
Folksonomys are sites with collaborative tagging. These sites are meant for users to store, manage, and organize bookmarks that are also tagged for other the other users benefit.
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