I am not sure if tags based navigation would be easier for users. In our web we categorize software (like download.com) and categories maybe are hard to understand.
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I personally prefer tagging to using categories.
The advantages of categories:
- clearly defined
- could be hierarchical
- static (in most cases)
The advantages of using tags:
- unstructured
- could be very easy user-defined
The advantages of using tagging is that the amount of tags something can have is unlimited, and ultimately users can tag items themselves. This is allows for a nice level of user-interaction, and your data will improve by each user adding a tag.
Navigation based on tags is then actually searching on any combination of tags, and will allow to get a very precise wanted collection of results. E.g. very good examples of succesfull tagging are (imo):
- stackexchange
- gmail
- flickr
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