You then automatically get the content they find interesting. There is no centralized database as in TiVo. Folders is designed for anything and everything, so there's no hope of being able to control the metadata. In fact, Folders manages to figure out metadata for content without people having to add it explicitly. When you force individual users to tag their own content, you are plagued by low participation, errors, and inconsistent tagging.
Folders just works with anything it can figure out.
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