Tag mania sweeps the Web

Jon Udell writes: "When I first wrote about social tagging services last year, Flickr (for shared photos) and del.icio.us (for shared bookmarks) were among a handful of tag-enriched applications. Nowadays you can't turn around without tripping over a new one. Three newcomers are My Web 2.0, Rojo 2.0, and Swik.

"Like del.icio.us and Furl, Yahoo's My Web 2.0 invites users to save bookmarks to the Web and then apply tags that flexibly categorize them. Rojo, a Web-based RSS reader like Bloglines, does the same with RSS items. Swik, a new Wiki site launched by SourceLabs, invites the open source community to bookmark and tag resources related to open source projects.

"Is this a fad or a real breakthrough in information management? I say both ..."
Source: InfoWorld