Filed under: Internet, Video, Open Source
Democracy Player becomes 'Miro'
What's in a name? Lots of things, including the difference between confusing and creating potential users of your application, apparently. That's why the Participatory Culture Foundation is renaming Democracy Player, its internet television surfing program, despite sticking with the original for over a year. "In all our debates about whether you could call something 'Democracy' and how people would react to the name, we hadn't realized that so many people would simply assume that the software was for politicians and videos about politics."
The new name will be Miro, which means, well... we don't know. But anyway, there's a lesson to be learned here. If you've got a potentially creative, but ultimately too specific and image-burdened name for your software, think twice about it. You can't always expect casual users to look beyond the name of an application to see its real use. So, lose the cool symbolism at the expense of losing users. Check out the official word from the folks themselves to get the full lowdown.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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SAGExSDX said 6:52PM on 3-12-2007
well if it's spanish, miro is the first person singular conjugation of "mirar" which means "to see, to watch".
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az said 7:37PM on 3-12-2007
actually miro means "I look at"
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SAGExSDX said 8:10PM on 3-12-2007
oh yeah... "veo" is "i see" right?
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Brian Liloia said 9:19PM on 3-12-2007
Wow, yea. I should have totally known that. Four years of Spanish - what? Er... I suppose I wasn't thinking hard enough...
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zack said 3:41PM on 3-13-2007
maybe they should focus on making it stable before they devote any effort into a marketing campaign. i love the concept, but it's a clunky beast.
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