
Big deal...
#whogivesafuck?
Facebook is adding hashtags to its service, in a move to channel discussions on the free content ad network just like Twitter does. Rumours surfaced in March that Mark Zuckerberg's cloud-powered ad giant would adopt hashtags on its website. Confirmation came via a Facebook blog post on Wednesday that it is now using the …
the only good thing to come out of all this , is that the general public now knows that the # is a hash.
Always annoyed me when trying to get people to type it and being asked what a hash is and then, when they see it saying ' oh, you mean the box sign'
next, can we educate people that a colon is NOT a 'double dot"
bootnote: i think it would be much better if we called them ^hattags , maybe i should patent that.......
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/A/ASCII.html
#: Common: number sign; pound; pound sign; hash; sharp; crunch ; hex; [mesh]. Rare: grid; crosshatch; octothorpe; flash; square;, pig-pen; tictactoe; scratchmark; thud; thump; splat .
Would it be Facebook, Twitter, Google or none of the above?
Pretty soon there will be dozens of Google Now knockoffs. Will you want them to collaborate in helping you or stove pipe everything they know about you and fail to share it with you or your designated agent?
When Facebook get to rolling it out in your area, all your meticulously chosen privacy settings (mines as locked down as is possible from prying eyes... although not those in the NSA of course) will be steamrollered into once again being as open as a wannabe models legs at a private gathering of footballers!
Just out of curiosity, and a serious question, how could Twitter have a patent on the common hash symbol followed by an undetermined word or series of words? Surely they couldn't patent the hash symbol alone as (in pseudo-patent mumbo-jumbo) a method to curate messages from multiple accounts with the same subject? Although, given some of the stupid things that have been patented I suppose its entirely possible!
Except that Twitter is an actual technology company...
Of course, what's really funny about that is they're far less of an "actual technology company" than Apple.....
The reason they won't sue is that taking a 1980's vintage mailing list system and adding a 140 character limit to postings isn't patentable....
As long as your #farkin #braindumptags stay #private to your #facebook #timeline and never appear on my #timeline I'll be reasonably happy, however if your #farkin #braindumptags appear in my #timeline and I don't know you then prepare for #mailbomb #warfare.
In otherwords, I do not want to see any #farkin #tags from anyone else that is not on my friend list.