JP Rangaswami, on his blog, confused of calcutta, has an insightful discussion, "Musing about enterprise information and flow. ...doesn’t everyone in the blogosphere know about ping servers, search engines, aggregators, ad servers, data miners, ad servers and text scrapers?
I've been using del.icio.us (social bookmarking site) for the last three years to bookmark and share what I find interesting on the net. Also, I use it as my primary search tool. Google/Yahool are great for the generic stuff but for the meaningful stuff I use del.icio.us. Why?
Tag Teams Wrestle With Web Content, Opinion by Robert L. Mitchell, APRIL 18, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - "Desktop search tools have done wonders in allowing me to gain control over information once it's on my desktop, but that begs the question: Does all of that stuff need to be there in the first place?
Businesses would get better ideas if they used social web tools and social media to engage employees, customers, and partners on a free flowing and unconstrained tagging basis instead of a pre-defined hierarchy of words that define the way things are or should be according to the business.