Hey Tony, Any word from the Places team?
On Sunday, January 13, 2013 11:37:41 PM UTC-6, Tony Bacigalupo wrote: > > One of our members is on the Places team; I forwarded this to him and will > update you on his response! > > > On Monday, January 14, 2013, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > >> Hey y'all, >> >> I just wanted to reach out and share a concern of mine regarding Google >> Places and see if we might be able to solve this together as a community. >> >> It would appear (see attached screenshot below for context) that no >> combination of "coworking, coworking space, cowork space, cowork, etc." was >> available as a pre-existing category. >> >> I think this is something we should work to fix ASAP since a lot of >> services scrape Google Places to aggregate lists of places by category. If >> coworking were actually a category in their system rather than being a >> custom category, we might actually have a really solid self-curated list of >> coworking spaces everywhere. In general, this would help to raise >> visibility of all coworking spaces and make them more discoverable. >> >> So now I'm going to ask does anyone on these boards know anyone on the >> Google Places team that can make this happen? >> >> >> <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/--_6BUzIIu3o/UPOSK07dBjI/AAAAAAAAACY/tAaj_4DmKbc/s1600/google+places.tiff> >> >> >> Also while on the subject, I'd like to ask, given the current constraints >> of the Google Places system, what categories and custom categories space >> operators have been using to market yourselves? >> >> Also, I tried looking up in the annals of this Google Group a unified map >> of coworking spaces worldwide and only found the following dead link ( >> http://www.coworking.info) on this thread: >> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/coworking/google$20places/coworking/wSjlp2mBm58/03EQEA2PhI8J >> Does any one know if this has been migrated somewhere else or possibly >> know if a new project has taken its place? >> >> Thanks, >> Oren >> >> -- >> Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Coworking" group. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
