Socializing on Tech-Based Interaction Connecting and socializing in a modern digital world involves many activities like getting the news, watching a video clip, research a product, manipulate a video, writing a blog or sending email, even scanning outstanding realworld things from the last summer trip. As the worlds of entertainment, computing, and communication go digital the trend has shifted towards digital media and an online lifestyle. Time to think about

• creating new opportunities for self-expression and collaboration
• complementing and competing in products and services
• leveraging network effects and monetization
  

Current modern social systems like YouTube, Flickr, Furl, Del.icio.us, Technorati allow people to classify, bookmark and share different content types like videos, pictures, bookmarks, web pages, blogs and music with tags, and then the most popular tags float to the top. When a large number of users all describe the same piece of information with different words the result is that the most used expressions are highest rated.

Web navigation systems have conceptually shifted from traditional forms of classification using fixed taxonomies to distributed classification schemes using flexible taxonomies (folksonomies), electronic publishing has become more and more individual and shows that the Internet is shifting to a medium that is genuinely more and more peer-to-peer structured with a decentralized authority.

• Innovating as a New Media Company

Folksonomies show a very successful approach to socializing, especially when combined with groups, subgroups and channels.  ¶ 'Socializing on Tech-Based Interaction' posted by eA : 2:15 PM