I wrote about The Future of Folksonomies before so of course I was interested when I read an article on Using tags to improve the Flickr experience. The article discusses a talk given by Kakul Srivastava, Flickr’s service director of product management, about the next generation of tagging and how tags can provide a better user experience when searching and discovering.

I think the article just reaffirms my point that information architects are and should be looking for new, creative, and intuitive ways to use tagging not only on sites like Flickr, but on all kinds of sites. I’m interested in seeing the various uses of tagging in the next few years.