Comments | knutties: Love for LiveURLs

knutties

Love for LiveURLs

Apr 24, 2006 21:50

LiveURLs opened to a very, very lukewarm response last week. We got a lot of good feedback. toufeeq has summarized the feedback. As he mentions, the biggest lesson we learnt from the release was that, a product is as effective as its marketing. But first things first, we need a name for the project to strike a chord with the users. LiveURLs just does ( Read more... )

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1 paisa from my wallet .. nearfar April 24 2006, 19:45:33 UTC

I would discourage using names like snippet, snip'it, etc. as they do not correspond to `the *whole* page, pointing to specific section(s) in it`. Let it also be the name (noun) for this new kind of url, that has the fragment in it. But let not the user wonder about what a "fragment" is. Let alone technical jargon ...

What about "urlhere"?

Re: 1 paisa from my wallet .. knutties April 25 2006, 03:49:09 UTC

That was a good suggestion. We'll keep it in mind. Updated the post with some more similar names. The word 'here' is nice. And the idea of making it a noun also makes sense.

mewpsych April 25 2006, 06:06:55 UTC

Frag-meant is awesome!

knutties April 25 2006, 06:12:19 UTC

Seriously. You should actually see Rajesh coming up with stuff like this. Awesome he is. Another gem of his was to refer to Toufeeq Hussain and me as TH&NKS. It looks like thanks :) He is our college department senior by 11 years and knows Uma Maheshwari ma'am et. al very well.

knutties April 26 2006, 08:16:28 UTC

One more gem from RB -

I was think of "frag-mark".

It also has the in-built "Agmark" stamp of approval ;-)

knutties April 26 2006, 08:03:23 UTC

Added your suggestion about web-marker. Sounds great :)

bhuvanbk April 26 2006, 04:44:40 UTC

Let me suggest couple of names :)

* shareurl/sharelink
* oururl/ourlink
* openurl/openlink
* connecturl

The concept of sharing the url is more receptive. The extension let users to share the portion of url. Hope it helps.

knutties April 26 2006, 05:05:51 UTC

The concept of sharing the url is more receptive
Yeah. share is a nice term. Thanks a lot for the suggestion :)

The extension let users to share the portion of url
share the portion as a url you meant?

bhuvanbk April 26 2006, 05:09:07 UTC

LiveUrl creates a url associated to the selected content and lets the user to share the url. The receiver can access the url, thus the selected portion/content is highlighted.

Zilla-Urls toufeeq April 26 2006, 06:31:43 UTC

I'm still in favour of zillaurls.

Zilla : 'zila' a small territory, word is common to most indian laguages. In our case it's misspelled and is to be pronounced with the local tamil slang, 'jilla'.It will also reflect the Mo-"zilla" part, getting us in favour with the Mozilla community.

Re: Zilla-Urls knutties April 26 2006, 06:33:08 UTC

Oops. I forgot to add this one. zillaurls should have been there in first place :)

Re: Zilla-Urls toufeeq April 26 2006, 07:51:09 UTC

Thank you. :)

rfc9000 April 26 2006, 17:48:18 UTC

Friended you.

Interesting idea/project this.

I'm bad with name suggestions. To give an example, we have a band in our college, and we've been performing at shows for the past 2 years, and we still dont have a name for our band!

With that disclaimer, I could think of the following names:
- clipit
- cliplink
- sublink
- subaddress
- subURL

knutties April 27 2006, 03:15:30 UTC

Friended you.
Me too.

Thanks for the suggestions :) Added them to the list. We should be finalizing on the names by this weekend. 'sub' and 'clip' are nice words to ponder upon.

rfc9000 May 12 2006, 18:55:34 UTC

subURL is a very good suggestion

-Jagan

knutties May 13 2006, 01:48:04 UTC

Thanks da Jagan :)