Re: suggest #poiwg for twitter/microblog and delicious.com tagging

@kurisu +1

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Rob Manson <roBman@mob-labs.com> wrote:

> @nambor +1
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> I think #poiwg is much more specific for this group.
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> roBman
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> On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 12:09 +0100, Dan Brickley wrote:
> > Hi folks
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> > Many of us stay in touch via Twitter or similar microblogging
> > platforms that support simple tagging.
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> > http://twitter.com/#!/yvonnert/status/1949057358499840 asks
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> > "@ogc_steven @Brackie2 @danbri @riktem @jeremy_morally @mhaklay
> > @gothwin @AnttiJakobsson Is there tag or is #POI ok
> > http://hb.ly/dnpJqi"
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> > I've suggested we use #poiwg rather than #poi, since
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> > 1) the former is free;
> > http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23poiwg&result_type=recent  shows
> > it is unused except for this group's discussions. By contrast
> > http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23poi seems to mean several things
> > all at once.
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> > 2) #poiwg makes it clear we're talking about the standards effort,
> > rather than tagging some particular point of interest.
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> > Regarding twitter, I think it's worth the extra couple of chars. But
> > <shrug/> this is an inexact science :)
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> > On delicious, http://www.delicious.com/tag/poi has a good pile of
> > links relating in various ways to 'points of interest'. I've been
> > using #poiwg there too http://www.delicious.com/tag/poiwg shows I'm
> > the only one so far doing so. I guess either is fine, I'll probably
> > use #poiwg when it's particularly about/for this group, and #poi, #geo
> > etc for more general topics.
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Dan
> >
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> > http://delicious.com/danbri
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