Nov 30 2005
Amazon on the front foot with tagging and wikis
As reported in Business Week, Amazon are testing several new features in beta form now:
1. tagging
2. wikis
3. community discussions
Really interested to see how they fare with this, as these are some really cool features that I would like to see in use in more sites. Amazon have always been sort of a quiet innovator in many ways, with their recommendation engine (other people who bought this book/dvd/cd/garden hoe also boought this book/dvd/cd/shovel), RESTful web services, and their huge collection of reviews (now that is a truly powerful barrier to entry).
Although I am often a skeptic of the latest technology being used in search of a problem, I think tagging, wikis and community discussions can be really powerful tools in the right applications (and I think Amazon clearly is the right application for many of these). Hopefully Amazon will be able to make the wikis last longer than The Los Angeles Times were able to.
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