Thursday, December 04, 2008

The Internet Gods are Trying to Tell Me Something


And by Internet Gods, I mean, of course, The Overlords of Mountain View, who of late have been making the word verifications on Blogger pronounceable non-words that would make ideal names for useless apps and social media widgets.

Message received, Google Masters. ScionoTM. Dot com.

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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Domain Names You Didn't Think To Buy

But it's not too late - if you HURRY! ACT NOW!



So often in the media business, new companies, agencies, widgets and apps sprout up with the dumbest names. It’s like the owners didn’t even try to come up with something creative, but instead made up a dumb word or misspelled an existing word. (More on that here and here.)

Being a collector of cool sounding domain names (which I have yet to do anything with, giant dreams notwithstanding) I just went to GoDaddy and top-of-head found you five six names in about four four and a half minutes that I think are damn good names. Buy them. Build an app. Sell it to Google. Thank me at your “I’m a millionaire!” party.

I’m still working on my millions. I'll let you know when that happens.

Here you go:

GIANTGREENPIGS.COM is available!
YOURMOMTWEETS.COM is available!
SICKLITTLEPUPPIES.COM is available!
SUNNYFOG.COM is available!
FOGGYSUN.COM is available!!!!
BUNCHOFSTUPID.COM is available!

That last one? Gold.

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Friday, October 24, 2008

New Media Company Set To Launch


I was over at Stan of Melbourne's fine and insightful blog and made a comment, where I was treated to this nice word verification.

Sometimes inspiration for your next start-up can come from the oddest of places.

Introducing Gralaco.

Gralaco is the must-have social media app of the year. Or it's a Facebook add-on. Or it's a blog widget. Or it's a new media agency. Whatever, the important thing is gralaco.com is available and that's really all you need. Snap it up, somebody!

Want more Web 2.0 scorn? I've got plenty.

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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

ISSKT - from Denmark

Hey, Typepad. I have excellent vision, but you're hurting my eyes with your comment verification puzzles. Like the 4th character here. Is it a "g," or a "9?"





I always get them wrong and then they give me an easier one.

Blogger's word verification jumbles are much easier, and sometimes they can even be pronounced, like this one.





Isskt. (Pronounced like "biscuit" without the "b.") Sounds like a new widget for bloggers, or maybe a photo and video sharing site. I just checked at GoDaddy and isskt.com is available. Somebody grab it quick! Do you know how hard it is to find available 5-letter domains with a .com suffix? Why do you think so many of the new media emerging companies have such silly, made-up names? Hell, that image above could even be your logo. Just add the word "beta" to the bottom, throw on some Web 2.0ish shiny sheen and maybe make the second "s" face the other "s" backwards, like two snakes kissing.

Pretend you're from a Scandinavian country when you launch the thing and the bloggerati/technorati will love you and jump on board. You'll be all the rage for a month and then Google will buy you.

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