Re: [twitter-dev] Early look at Annotations

2010-04-18 Thread Aral Balkan
I like that annotations will be open so that the various schema can live/die organically based on client adoption (or lack thereof) rather than an artificially-emposed constraint. I outlined some of my ideas for annotations (or Twitterformats, as I called them) at the end of last year at

[twitter-dev] Early look at Annotations

2010-04-16 Thread Marcel Molina
Hey everyone. One of the things we talked about at Chirp is the new Annotations feature we're working on. In short, it allows you to annotate a tweet with structured metadata. We're still working on Annotations, but I wanted to share with a wider audience beyond those I was able to talk to in

Re: [twitter-dev] Early look at Annotations

2010-04-16 Thread Joseph Cheek
awesome idea! I know I can find a use for it. Some concerns, however, below... Joseph Cheek Marcel Molina wrote: the sentence Namespaces aren't intended as a way for people to claim their little slice of the tweet space. and the sentence If you want a given key to mean one thing and