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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2008
Michael Muller, Medford, MA (US);
Andrew L. Schirmer, Andover, MA (US);
Casey Dugan, Medford, MA (US);
Jennifer Thom-santelli, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Suzanne O. Minassian, Boston, MA (US);
Michael Muller, Medford, MA (US);
Andrew L. Schirmer, Andover, MA (US);
Casey Dugan, Medford, MA (US);
Jennifer Thom-Santelli, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Suzanne O. Minassian, Boston, MA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to social bookmarking and provide a method, system and computer program product for tag syndicates in a social bookmarking system. In an embodiment of the invention, a tag syndicate method can be provided. The method can include establishing different tag syndicates, each tag syndicate providing a specified set of users of a social bookmarking system. The method further can include selecting at least one tag syndicate for use in conducting a content operation, and performing a content operation utilizing the social bookmarking system based upon the selected tag syndicate or syndicates. In this regard, the content operation can be a visible operation such as a type ahead operation, or a logical operation such as sorting content search results.