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I remember the first time I saw your site and thought, interesting name. Simply for the fact that I'm the founder of fotoblur.com and wireblur.com. It was easy
by fotoblur 15y ago
I remember the first time I saw your site and thought, interesting name. Simply for the fact that I'm the founder of fotoblur.com and wireblur.com. It was easy to find domain names after attaching 'blur' to the name (a 3 month search for fotoblur) :)! For photography it kind of made sense.
@conesus: However I'm curious. How did you decide on the name? I'm not claiming any inspiration, however, according to whois the newsblur.com was registered on 18-feb-2009 whereas fotoblur was on 28-sep-2007 ;)!
Motorola also got in on the act: https://portal-moto.svcmot.com/moto-web-portal/ https://portal-moto.svcmot.com/moto-web-portal/
- conesus 15y agoAt one point I changed the name to Protoread, meaning Read the Original [site]. It took about 24 hours before I switched to Protopub. And then 3 days later, right back to NewsBlur. To be honest, I used the word blur because when following dozens, if not hundreds of sites, they all start to blur together. So I hooked on to that mental picture and embraced the dilemma. Might as well know what you're getting into--NewsBlur. The S. Jobs recommendation on the subject of naming businesses was to find a good word within the domain, then make it sexy. I'm struggling to think of the examples that would complete this anecdote, but NewsBlur is about as sexy a name as a feed reader gets.
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- fotoblur 15y agoFor Fotoblur I used the following catch phrase a few times: "Fotoblur, the blur between art and photography." I think you made the better choice between the other 2 name options.