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Our friends at Faviki write about their newest release and it’s super exciting. Before we dive into it, just a quick reminder what Faviki is – it’s a tool that brings together social bookmarking and Wikipedia. It lets you tag your bookmarks using Wikipedia concepts as tags.

The big news is addition of features to support CommonTag:

We are happy to announce the addition of several new features. The purpose of the new features is mainly to facilitate the use of common tags from Wikipedia, as well as to overcome Wikipedia’s limitations as a controlled vocabulary for semantic tags.Vuk Mili?i?, Faviki Blog, Jul 2009

they of course added other things, including:

• Smarter autocomplete list The autocomplete list is an alternative way of finding and adding tags. It is now powered by DBpedia lookup – a powerful search API for Wikipedia concepts.
• Converting tags This feature allows users to convert any of their tags to another tag across all of their bookmarks.
• Spam control Bookmarks of no value for users can easily be marked as spam. Bookmarks that were marked as spam by a certain number of users are hidden.
• Export/backup bookmarks Bookmarks can be exported along with semantic tags in the standard HTML bookmarks format.
• Tag description tooltip A short abstract with an image, if there is any, shown when a mouse is held over a tag name, helps users choose the right tag. The data is fetched from DBpedia in real time.

Vuk Mili?i?, Faviki Blog, Jul 2009

They even include a nice screenshot of semantically tagging Zemanta, which was not possible before:

Users collaboratively decide the best URLs for a concept

You should give Faviki a try, it’s truly a next-generation bookmarking and tagging tool!