Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata: "From Tags to Folksonomy
The most popular tags used on Delicious are listed on the right side of the front page. Related tags, as determined programmatically by the system, are listed on the right side of individual tag pages. The organic system of organization developing in Delicious and Flickr was called a ?folksonomy? by Thomas Vander Wal in a discussion on an information architecture mailing list (Smith, 2004). It is a combination of ?folk? and ?taxonomy.?"