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> Are there examples of products where an awesome name made them into successes? Or even had a significant impact? YouTube. What differentiated YouTube from al

• beambot 15y ago
  I've got a hunch that there was a little more to it than just "a good name and logo."
  • dilap 15y ago
    For one, they tried hard to support every possible video format for upload (as opposed to, e.g., Google Video, which was much pickier about what it would accept). In general, they nailed the "just make it work" factor. (Subjectively, I remember YouTube being the first site that made me think, "wow! video on the internet! it works!". Ironically enough, this is no longer really true -- half the time YT starts buffering part way through the video (sometimes never to go finish w/o a full page refresh), & the other half the time you get a disruptive pop-up covering 20% of the screen. Bah.)