the ryan king

The inaugural Tag Tuesday was last night. It was a great time until mother nature ended our fun.

We started at Gordon Biersch, which was a great place for socializing and meeting people. However, when it came time for Kevin to give his presentation, it was just too loud in there. So, we moved outside and sat along the Embaracadero.

Kevin preceded to give his presentation outside, sans-slides. Then Stewart gave his spiel about tagging at Flickr (photo).

Then came the good part.

We had some good discussion, then, among the 25 or so people who were there. One of the things that came up several times (because I kept bringing it back up :-)) was location-based tagging. For anyone who’d like to discuss location-based encoding in HTML we have a wiki page at Technorati on the topic. Please contribute your thoughts to this.

Eran has a better summary of the evening, which ended as the coast guard came by to tell us that there was an earthquake off the coast and a tsunami warning.

Update: Here’s the Upcoming.org event for Tag Tuessday.

Kevin has just announced Tag Tuesday:

With many thousands of users adopting tags, we thought it would be a good idea to gather tag developers every month to exchange ideas, and encourage code that works well together.Our inaugural meeting will be:

June 14, 2005 - 06:30 - 09:30 - Tag Tuesday First meeting - at Gordon Biersch, 2 Harrison Street, San Francisco, CA USA

Meet other Bay Area tag developers, and hear Stewart Butterfield of Flickr and Kevin Marks of Technorati talk about tags.

A ha. Google’s purchase of Keyhole makes sense now. They’ve integrated Keyhole’s satellite imagery into Google Maps.

For example, check out Kansas City and my flat. [*From Google Blog*]

Update: The satellite imagery is worldwide, so you can zoom out and scroll all the way around the world.