Hashtags To Be Registered Like Domain Names?
Here’s a thought: hashtags which can be frustrating to find, understand and keep together should be registered just like domain names.
- Conversations and groups could attach to an official hashtag, links to websites created.
- Standardised hashtags would reduce clutter (multiple hashtags on one topic).
- Confusion over semantics would be reduced, faster access/understanding of conversations increased.
- Purchasing a hashtag would increase the value for the owner of the hashtag.
How could this be a bad thing?
2 Comments
Nicholas on April 21st, 2010
I agree and think this would be a great way to organize an important part of the web. Implementation is going to be pretty tricky, but then again, look back at all we learned in the early days of domain registration and I’m sure we can improve upon that.
DrPlexi on August 28th, 2009
Looking outside the box (twitterverse, of course hashtags were used prior to that) they can be used for a broader purpose. To tidy up the web, eliminate all that is bad on it, and truly connecting all as one. That is why I am working on creating “Hashtag Code” it is code that can be utilized on any website and people can hashtag it with the hashtags they see fit, then those hashtags will be used to create universal tools to help benefit everyone. Would love to discuss the project, as I want to make it open source.
While a registry is a good thing – where top strings are prioritized. I want to implement “Indexicality” into the hashtag strings, meaning that – just like in language where things have multiple meaning…so, do the hashtags, but that will be dependent on their use at that determined moment and place. I call that “Hashtag Language” where it becomes a interface for users based on their langauge understanding and use, not by forcing them to some rigid standard.
The tools that can be created by mapping the net in form of human language determined by users is simply – incredible. You could tidy the #www totally up.
I’ll be contacting you, hope we can talk.