KacheriSocial - an app to connect Live kacheri discussions

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Ananth
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KacheriSocial - an app to connect Live kacheri discussions

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I have tried to put down my long standing pet grouse.
Do let me know if it makes any sense.

Imagine listening to a live concert.
Singer starts alaap of a rare raga.
And on your twitter timeline, you getting a hundred guesses within moments. How cool is that?! 8-)

When attending classical music live concerts, we often tweet on it / post to Facebook.
We discuss it in detail in various forums such as rasikas.org.
So what is preventing us from reading all such content specific to ONE concert,
or reaching out to all interested parties on one specific concert?

Sure, the Internet and Social Media provide search mechanisms, we know the forums to look in, etc.
Still, I am not sure we end up reaching out to all.
For example, try searching material related to Sanjay's MA concert last year.
How many hits in all online media? Hardly ten or fifteen.

Also think, how many different hashtags are used by people on twitter for the same discussion:
#WT20IndvPak, #WT20PakvInd, #IndvPakWT20
Real irritation, isn't it?
Even worse, if you check http://www.hashtaggenerator.com/

The basic reason is, lack of a unique referencing for a concert.

How great would it be, if there was a #hashtag specific to one specific concert / event,
which can be understood by people as well as search engines?

For example, Sanjay's MA concert could be: #kacheri:awsm15
where #kacheri is the "domain" and awsm15 is the unique event.

In fact the idea can be extended as:
venue: #venue:chn.ma
event: #kacheri:awsm15 (just a random unique string)
date: 2015-12-27
start-time: 18:30
main-artist: #artist:san.sub
other-artist: #artist:s.varada
other-artist: #artist:n.venki
(just an example)

Now, #kacheri:awsm15 is enough to reference all the above info.
And it is short enough and unambiguous. Though a bit cryptic.
We maintain it somewhere, people can search it and get the unique codes for the events they are interested in,
and if everyone starts doing this, we have more connected people.
Ideally this can be a feature or extension of an existing site that provides kacheri schedules.

How can this be better integrated into Google's search engine, Twitter, Facebook etc?
Ideally, I want to click on #kacheri:awsm15 and get, not only the tweets with this hashtag (which will happen even now),
but also the meta information associated with the hashtag. within twitter itself.

I don't know.
May be the #hashtag can be presented as a short url, so it is clickable and leads to our event db.

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