Flickr and the 'democratization of information'

Yahoo's purchase of Flickr is so interesting because Flickr is a pioneer in tagging, which is not just the latest fad online, but has the potential to revolutionize the way information is found and distributed online.

"The democratization of information is the real interesting thing about this," said Bob Rosenschein, CEO of GuruNet, an answer search engine. "They're messy and noisy and they're not always accurate, but they're people talking about real subjects; and in that manner they have tremendous statistical interest when they get to scale. There's a wisdom of the crowd. The most interesting applications are before us."

It's a deceptively simple premise that holds enormous consequences for information management...

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