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I like Twitter’s new ‘cashtag’ symbol. Easy way to refer to public companies http://identi.ca/url/72984427… can we have it on !Identica?
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.@samatjain nice idea though annoying assumption that all $TEXT are meant to be references to companies…
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An idea could be to implement #cashtag via an escape character like ^ or \ prepended to ‘$’
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/me would be evil and suggest just using ¤ (U+00A4), but pretty much no one knows/uses it
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Ugh! Didn’t know a “currency” symbol (U+00A4) existed. Thought ¤ was an error ☺
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or maybe we should better resist the temptation of special-casing an ontological domain just because it’s money related… #cashtags
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Also, worth noting that this is something that came from StockTwits.com, which is a great focused social network.
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@evan Whn lmtd to 140c, evry ch cnts
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@evan And apparently until recently… typed-out domains like example.com would get picked up by URL shortener (not anymore?)
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@johndrinkwater @lnxwalt @erack ‘#’ also conflicts w/ naming IRC channels, and any number of things… but like $, neither used often
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@zack Personally, I’d like some kind of special-casing for locations too. Perhaps by nearby aiport? I.e. will be in ✈SFO next week
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It’s a framing issue. If you talk about companies according to their stock ticker, you’re talking about a different aspect than their URL.
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It depends on your URL shortener prefs.
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