Playing Tag

From Gene Smith's You’re It!:

This was a big year for tags. You could even say that tags went mainstream in 2005 (if tags were a band, they’d be The Killers). So, given we’re at the end of 2005, I thought I would take a look back at the major announcements and events in the world of ad hoc, user-created metadata.

He goes on to cover the big tag events of the year, from Technorati's introduction of distributed tagging in January, to Yahoo's December purchase of del.icio.us

Read the whole thing here.