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Open note to all those working on the “social software product[s]” of “Web 2.0” (or are otherwise pre-gaming for Zeldman’s hypothetical Web 3.0):

Semantic equivalents in tagging apps.

I don’t think this is anything remotely like a new idea but SERIOUSLY please make your applications smart.  And by “smart”, I mean that if you’re going to include ways of tagging [fill-in-the-blank plural nouns] have the app be semantically aware.  Tags of “Rome” may generalize associatively to “Italy”; “sexy” and “erotic” may generalize synonymously; see where I’m going with this?

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