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Tagging is another commonality of Web 2.0 tools. Social bookmarking extends tagging and organization into the realm of SNS, with tags, feeds, and RSS subscriptions included. A useful definition of the technologies highlighted in this chapter comes from librarian and blogger Ellyssa Kroski, who'll be publishing a guide to 2.0 tools with Neal Schuman in 2007.
In "The Hive Mind: Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging," Kroski writes:
Unlike social-networking sites such as LinkedIn and Friendster, which concentrate on developing relationships, social sites such as del.icio .us, 43Things and Flickr focus their attention on organizing data. Users ...