A coffeetable book of photography, documenting Hong Kong storefronts could be unique. Hong Kong is the biggest small city in the world, with loads of tiny, interesting little shops, filled with anything from radio-controlled helicopters to turtle-filled fishtanks, standing shoulder to shoulder to compete for attention. Their shopfronts are often complex, tiny and well lit.
Hashtags have proven to be extremely useful in twitter. It has the ability to convert noise to signal in the cacophony of the millions of 140 character packets that fly around the planet everyday.
What if we can spread the same meme and apply hashtags to that other noisy medium: email. If we were disciplined to add hashtags to subject headers, we could make it very easy for recipients to organise and respond to our missives. Perhaps email clients of the future could have built-in capabilities for dealing with hashtags?
Emails with subject headers like “re: hi” are terribly obtuse and confusing. Imagine a world in which your inbox consists of the likes of:
etc.
