More on i18n folksonomies: ButtUgly
And that means that tags will become "language polluted." Take a look at the Technorati tag for "Macintosh", for example. Many of the blog entries are in Japanese. If you look at Orkut, many of the parts of it suddenly became "owned" by Brasilians, which essentially drove away English speakers."
I disagree: the internet didn't become language-polluted. What will happen is that tag "namespaces" will develop, somewhat mirroring languages, but also other social groups like interest groups, specialist communities, ... All these will develop their own tagspaces.
See also my post Folksonomies in Japanese.
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# Feb 4, 2005