Pinging my contact now!
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:32 PM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > 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] 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<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<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. > > > -- 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.
