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10 worst (and real) web app names
The folks over at Read/WriteWeb have put together a pretty compelling list of the 10 worst names for web 2.0 sites. All are real web services, and all are really bad names, for a variety of reasons.Here's a snippet of R/WW's list.
- Fairtilizer is an online music community with a bafflingly unattractive name.
- Agester - how many sites must add a -ster to their name?
- Profilactic is a site that aggregates feeds, but we had to read the description a few dozen times before we could pay attention to anything but the site name
- iStalkr creates a stream of data from your RSS feeds including Digg, Flickr etc that you can share with others. But it's got a kind of frightening name, not to mention the me-too omission of the letter "e."
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Neil Cauldwell said 5:14PM on 7-16-2007
Fairtilizer is a real stinker
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hnkelley said 5:14PM on 7-16-2007
Wait... You get down on istalkr for the 'me-too omission of the letter "e"' (which I agree with you on) but not for the me-to INclusion of that cursed 'i'?!? What are you, a fanboy? I'm so SICK of the whole ithing!
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Robb Topolski said 7:57AM on 7-17-2007
Back when the web was young, when the O/S did not include network, dial-up, or web applications, one of the leading products was "Internet in a Box," including a Winsock dialer and Spry's version of the Mosaic browser that it licensed.
Along with i- and e- names, the appendage of "-in-a-Box" has kinda stuck, too. Search google for product|products "in a box" and there are hundreds!
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