diff --git a/include/conversation.php b/include/conversation.php
index 664f81f3bc..fc4b85e794 100644
--- a/include/conversation.php
+++ b/include/conversation.php
@@ -351,69 +351,6 @@ function visible_activity($item) {
 }
 
 
-/**
- * returns 
- * [
- *    //categories [
- *          {
- *               'name': 'category name',
- *              'removeurl': 'url to remove this category',
- *             'first': 'is the first in this array? true/false',
- *               'last': 'is the last in this array? true/false',
- *           } ,
- *           ....
- *       ],
- *       // folders [
- *               'name': 'folder name',
- *               'removeurl': 'url to remove this folder',
- *               'first': 'is the first in this array? true/false',
- *               'last': 'is the last in this array? true/false',
- *           } ,
- *           ....       
- *       ]
- *   ]
- */
-function get_cats_and_terms($item) {
-    $categories = array();
-    $folders = array();
-
-    $matches = false; $first = true;
-    $cnt = preg_match_all('/<(.*?)>/',$item['file'],$matches,PREG_SET_ORDER);
-    if($cnt) {
-        foreach($matches as $mtch) {
-            $categories[] = array(
-                'name' => xmlify(file_tag_decode($mtch[1])),
-                'removeurl' => $a->get_baseurl() . '/filerm/' . $item['id'] . '?f=&cat=' . xmlify(file_tag_decode($mtch[1])),
-                'first' => $first,
-                'last' => false
-            );
-            $first = false;
-        }
-    }
-    if (count($categories)) $categories[count($categories)-1]['last'] = true;
-    
-
-
-    $matches = false; $first = true;
-    $cnt = preg_match_all('/\[(.*?)\]/',$item['file'],$matches,PREG_SET_ORDER);
-    if($cnt) {
-        foreach($matches as $mtch) {
-            $folders[] = array(
-                'name' => xmlify(file_tag_decode($mtch[1])),
-                'removeurl' => $a->get_baseurl() . '/filerm/' . $item['id'] . '?f=&term=' . xmlify(file_tag_decode($mtch[1])),
-                'first' => $first,
-                'last' => false
-            );
-            $first = false;
-        }
-    }
-
-    if (count($folders)) $folders[count($folders)-1]['last'] = true;
-    
-    return array($categories, $folders);
-}
-
-
 /**
  * Recursively prepare a thread for HTML
  */
diff --git a/include/text.php b/include/text.php
index 878ce80e9b..9b55078cbe 100644
--- a/include/text.php
+++ b/include/text.php
@@ -1071,6 +1071,72 @@ function prepare_text($text) {
 }}
 
 
+/**
+ * returns 
+ * [
+ *    //categories [
+ *          {
+ *               'name': 'category name',
+ *              'removeurl': 'url to remove this category',
+ *             'first': 'is the first in this array? true/false',
+ *               'last': 'is the last in this array? true/false',
+ *           } ,
+ *           ....
+ *       ],
+ *       // folders [
+ *               'name': 'folder name',
+ *               'removeurl': 'url to remove this folder',
+ *               'first': 'is the first in this array? true/false',
+ *               'last': 'is the last in this array? true/false',
+ *           } ,
+ *           ....       
+ *       ]
+ *   ]
+ */
+function get_cats_and_terms($item) {
+    $a = get_app();
+    $categories = array();
+    $folders = array();
+
+    $matches = false; $first = true;
+    $cnt = preg_match_all('/<(.*?)>/',$item['file'],$matches,PREG_SET_ORDER);
+    if($cnt) {
+        foreach($matches as $mtch) {
+            $categories[] = array(
+                'name' => xmlify(file_tag_decode($mtch[1])),
+                'url' =>  "#",
+                'removeurl' => ((local_user() == $item['uid'])?$a->get_baseurl() . '/filerm/' . $item['id'] . '?f=&cat=' . xmlify(file_tag_decode($mtch[1])):""),
+                'first' => $first,
+                'last' => false
+            );
+            $first = false;
+        }
+    }
+    if (count($categories)) $categories[count($categories)-1]['last'] = true;
+    
+
+
+    $matches = false; $first = true;
+    $cnt = preg_match_all('/\[(.*?)\]/',$item['file'],$matches,PREG_SET_ORDER);
+    if($cnt) {
+        foreach($matches as $mtch) {
+            $folders[] = array(
+                'name' => xmlify(file_tag_decode($mtch[1])),
+                 'url' =>  "#",
+                'removeurl' => ((local_user() == $item['uid'])?$a->get_baseurl() . '/filerm/' . $item['id'] . '?f=&term=' . xmlify(file_tag_decode($mtch[1])):""),
+                'first' => $first,
+                'last' => false
+            );
+            $first = false;
+        }
+    }
+
+    if (count($folders)) $folders[count($folders)-1]['last'] = true;
+    
+    return array($categories, $folders);
+}
+
+
 /**
  * return atom link elements for all of our hubs
  */
diff --git a/object/Item.php b/object/Item.php
index d40a384f56..04d52a896e 100644
--- a/object/Item.php
+++ b/object/Item.php
@@ -143,10 +143,20 @@ class Item extends BaseObject {
 		$location = ((strlen($locate['html'])) ? $locate['html'] : render_location_google($locate));
 
 		$tags=array();
+		$hashtags = array();
+		$mentions = array();
 		foreach(explode(',',$item['tag']) as $tag){
 			$tag = trim($tag);
-			if ($tag!="") $tags[] = bbcode($tag);
-		}
+			if ($tag!="") {
+				$t = bbcode($tag);
+				$tags[] = $t;
+				if($t[0] == '#')
+					$hashtags[] = $t;
+				elseif($t[0] == '@')
+					$mentions[] = $t;
+			}
+
+		}        
 
 		$like    = ((x($alike,$item['uri'])) ? format_like($alike[$item['uri']],$alike[$item['uri'] . '-l'],'like',$item['uri']) : '');
 		$dislike = ((x($dlike,$item['uri'])) ? format_like($dlike[$item['uri']],$dlike[$item['uri'] . '-l'],'dislike',$item['uri']) : '');
@@ -195,11 +205,17 @@ class Item extends BaseObject {
 
 		$body = prepare_body($item,true);
 
+        list($categories, $folders) = get_cats_and_terms($item);
+
 		$tmp_item = array(
 			'template' => $this->get_template(),
 			
 			'type' => implode("",array_slice(explode("/",$item['verb']),-1)),
 			'tags' => $tags,
+            'hashtags' => $hashtags,
+            'mentions' => $mentions,
+            'categories' => $categories,
+            'folders' => $folders,            
 			'body' => template_escape($body),
 			'text' => strip_tags(template_escape($body)),
 			'id' => $this->get_id(),
@@ -266,6 +282,11 @@ class Item extends BaseObject {
 			}
 		}
 		
+        if ($this->is_toplevel()) {
+            $result['total_comments_num'] = $total_children;
+            $result['total_comments_text'] = tt('comment', 'comments', $total_children);
+        }
+        
 		$result['private'] = $item['private'];
 		$result['toplevel'] = ($this->is_toplevel() ? 'toplevel_item' : '');