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Now that I just said it, let's hear it again from someone else:

It appears to me that there’s not been much progress being done related to tagging systems lately. What rather became better is the embedding of tagging systems into already existing technologies such as search. It gives the impression that core issues are done and that there’s no much room for improvement. In this article I wanted to disprove this. I think that there's much much more than I have written in here, I even believe that todays tagging applications cover just about 5% of all the possible features tagging makes possible. Thus, let’s gain ground.

It is a pleasure for me to point you to Then each went to his own home - Philipp Keller's thoughts on tags and deliciousness. Philipp's writings offer what is badly needed in most blogs on tagging/"folksonomy"/social software/"Web 2.0" issues: substance. To begin with, check Tagsystems: performance tests, Tags with MySQL fulltext, Analyzing tag-connections and How tagging could gain ground from which above quote origins.

It could gain ground, of course, if it better helps to explore, if it offers a currently missing view on data with, as Philipp puts it, "a bit more ontology than [plain] tags but not that much taxonomy as open directory". That's the idea I wanted to convey with my currently doormant semantic tagging stuff, explained better - don't miss his street map comparison!