Suggestions for new auto-tag tricks

person:A Celeb

Could link to a Google image search.

Place:WC1

Could link to a google map search.

Posted about 1 year ago by Ben

Ben: Kudos for the Place search (which I’ve just set up).

Flippy: Coming soon, for members who have been on the site for at least 3 months.

Posted about 1 year ago by unknown

I’d like to be able to add a tag or two to a response, although that might allow subversion of the moderation.

Posted about 1 year ago by flippy

map:[postcode] > Google Maps
wiki:[word] > Wikipedia definition

Posted about 1 year ago by cutta

Hi Paul. You might want to point the place autotag to maps.google.co.uk rather than maps.google.com – at the moment it will only find USA places!!

Posted about 1 year ago by Ben

pubs: www.beerintheevening.com food: www.london-eating.co.uk

tfl, oyster etc: tfl website

Posted about 1 year ago by iSleepDiagonal

also it’d be good if we could define in our profiles our own sources for tags to override the FCL defaults: play.com instead of amazon, streetmap or multimap instead of google maps etc

Posted about 1 year ago by iSleepDiagonal

Ok, Wiki is working and maps is now UK.

Posted about 1 year ago by unknown

While you’re on this, I’ve been meaning to point out for a while that the web: tags in profiles could be a bit more intelligent that it is.

A lot of myspace/flickr/etc profiles are broken because people have added the http:// in their links, or missed off the www or stuff. Can you parse the url on saving and make sure it resolves to something other than the fridaycities 404.

Posted about 1 year ago by mydogminton

yep. that’s something we’re working on. So many features to sort, so few hours in the week! Predictive tagging coming soon too.

Posted about 1 year ago by unknown

Also…

Films
How about a search on cinema listings for current films eg.
[film: hot fuzz] = http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=hot+fuzz+london

Transport
Could you do something with train/tube stations eg.
[station: Black Friars] = http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/ldb/index.html?a=findDepartureBoard&station_query=blackfriars&boardType=departures

There’s a similar thing for tubes stations on tfl. Not sure how much use this feature would be though.

Food & Drink
How about a recipe search on http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/ or something.

Bands/Theatre/Exhibitions
Ticket search.

General
Surely pretty much anything could lead to an eBay search?!

And, as an aside, I presume with things like this, you’re setting up as an affiliate. Amazon, Ticketmaster, and loads of these things will give you a tiny slice of anything sold via your link. It doesn’t add up to much but it all helps and at no cost to you or us.

EDIT: Not sure why but your system has stuck semicolons after each ampersand in the links up there. I’ve tried editing them out but can’t. Also… any chance of making that edit box a bit bigger. It’s like keyhole surgey!

Posted about 1 year ago by mydogminton

Is there already an option that links everyone tagged with “books” to the various threads about local book groups etc?

There probably is…

Posted about 1 year ago by Regan

Thanks for those. Film: now searches IMDB and Google cinema listings, band: searches ticketmaster, amazon, last.fm and play. And I’ve added a couple of dozen other things too.

Posted about 1 year ago by unknown

club or clubnight: http://www.dontstayin.com

Posted about 1 year ago by Roo

Good one. It’s in.

Posted about 1 year ago by unknown

Following on from that DSI:username ?

EDIT: when you click on say, myspazzz:completewanker, should that then be a link to that page? Thought it was but just tried it on mine and it doesn’t work that way…

Posted about 1 year ago by Roo

roo: click on the triangle, it will drop down and give you the option to go to the page

Posted about 1 year ago by richyblue

when it’s a tag that links to another community (flickr, myspace…) it’d be nice just to be able to list all the people who use that community. Just out of curiosity mind, not terribly useful

Posted about 1 year ago by rogan

Surely, rather than just “place” for geographical locations, you should be able to tag yourself as work:ec1r0jh (you all now know where I work… should I be scared?), and then bar:sw1y5ah, museum:ec2y5hn blah, blah, blah. Then by some very clever trickery that I don’t understand, but is possible because I’ve seen it on another site; you can put that data onto Google maps and it automatically shows you FCL recommended bars, museums etc and also shows which other FCLers live/work near you. (better still it could also be available in Google Earth. That would impress me an awful lot).

Posted about 1 year ago by olib

Yeah. I’ve been meaning to look into setting up something on Google Maps but I’m a bit out of the loop programming wise.

In theory there should be a way of setting up a database of all LFC (London Friday Cities, not Liverpool FC although that would be equally valid, but perhaps not on this website) locations. With a bit of metadata there could be a Friday Cities google map which only lists recommended bars/restaurants/clubs/etc with a link back that goes to a FC search for that location etc.

Do it!

Posted about 1 year ago by mydogminton