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The website that I evaluated is http://www.ebay.com/ . I do quite a bit of shopping on ebay. I like the structure somewhat on this site, but I think the category links could be more general. The content is enormous on this site it is sometimes difficult to find what you are looking for. The design of the site is good with the different color schemes, the layouts, and the fonts. The imagery and the graphics are sometimes annoying trying to sell you something that you have already bought before or things you might buy. The behavior of the site is not good, trying to find a certain things but have to do numerous searches to find a specific item. I like simple and right to the point.
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Folksonomies became popular on the Web around 2004 as part of as social bookmarking and photograph annotation. Tagging, which is characteristic of Web 2.0 services, allows users to collectively classify and find information. Some websites include tag clouds as a way to visualize tags in a folksonomy. Folksonomies have been developed to characterize how knowledge structures could arise and be useful to other users, even when there is a lack of top-down mediation
