My friend Jon Sykes at the Glasgow Caledonian University eMotion Games Lab sent me this link to a talk at TED. Like most TED talks, this one’s intensely interesting, but that’s not the point here. Take a look at the how the video is rated; it’s essentially a bounded tagging system. Jon thinks this might be useful for Wikiup, since it’s more informative (creates a tagging cloud to generate a more qualitative rating than a star system).

Certainly folksonomic tagging has been in my head for a long while now. But honestly, I’m not sure about this for ratings,  since the Wikiup system by definition needs to be able to tease out quantitatively “best” versions within certain bounds. But I like the idea that the rating system could be multi-dimensional. Any thoughts world?

Wikiup Wikiup folksonomy, ratings, tagging, TED