fuzzzy is the social bookmarking and networking site for web science academics, web professionals and web enthusiasts. If you do research and/or development of web centric systems then this is the site for you.

Why is it different from del.icio.us and other social bookmarking sites? Fuzzzy is not only social but also semantic. In fuzzzy Tags as well as their relations have more meaning. When tags are assigned a meaning using a standard like the ISO 13250 Topic Map then people as well as other computer systems can make use of the embedded knowledge in a more meaningful way. More on Topic Maps at Wikipedia. This way of categorising content is a middle way between the top-down monolithic taxonomy approach like the Yahoo directory and the more recent social tagging (folksonomy) approaches. It is also more collaborative and will help to build a consensus language that can improve communication and support knowledge sharing.

Why do we use Topic Maps and not the RDF/OWL standards? We believe that Topic Maps is better for our purpose. Tagging is all about subjects. The Topic Maps standard evolved around this notion of subject centricity. While RDF is all about resources and statements, Topic Maps is instead all about subjects and their meaning. With Topic Maps we can establish knowledge layer a part from the resource layer.