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March 28, 2005

Consumerpedia's product folksonomy

Posted by David Weinberger

Consumerpedia is Wikipedia for products. It’s in .00000001 alpha, the site says, but it seems usable, albeit empty. (I put in a review of Thinkpad X40, just to try it out.) The Help page highlights its tools for constructing a hierchical folksonomy: Anyone can create a category, a sub-category, a re-direct (= synonymn), or a related-to (= reciprocal link). It explicitly has avoided creating a top-down categorization scheme.

Who’s up for a Consumerpedia vs United Nations Standard Products and Services Code System Deathmatch! [Technorati tags: taxonomy consumerpedia wikipedia]

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1. Jay Fienberg on March 28, 2005 2:57 PM writes...

"Who’s up for a Consumerpedia vs United Nations Standard Products and Services Code System Deathmatch!"

How about Consumerpedia vs Amazon?

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