Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Steal this bookmark! (08 Feb 2005) It's a very simple concept, and 43 Things is a very simple site, but tagging as it is used here and at some of the Web's most interesting and lively new sites is launching a revolution of self-organization on the Internet. You could call it the latest twist in the ongoing evolution of social networking software. Except there's a difference: On social networking sites like Orkut or Friendster, people join, and then declare their alliances to each other explicitly. On sites that employ tagging, the networks emerge, implicitly, out of the shared interests of users. Order isn't proclaimed, it just happens. Article URL: http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2005/02/08/tagging/index.html Read 66 more articles from Salon sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: How Bill Gates cured my PMS     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy