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What makes it a good name? Personally I think its pretty terrible. Does not mean much of anything, makes me think of a celebrity blog or something. The domain i
by jwesley 18y ago
What makes it a good name? Personally I think its pretty terrible. Does not mean much of anything, makes me think of a celebrity blog or something. The domain is hard to pronounce. If you don't use the OMG acronym its completely meaningless. Always amazes me when companies with millions in funding put their sites on such crap domains.
- jfarmer 18y agoHow do you know it's crap? I think it works well if you're targeting teenagers. Maybe that's exactly what they're doing.
- jwesley 18y agoI think that's what the 30 something business guys who decided on the name would say.
- pclark 18y agogoogle did pretty well out of a weird name
- jwesley 18y agoGoogle is easy to pronounce and does not have any slang acronyms. I wonder if they chose omgpop because lolgamez was already taken.
- alaskamiller 18y agoSome people on here are just outright ridiculous. It's a website of poppy glossy Flash games for teenyboppers. How is this not a perfect name for the site and its demo?
- sam_in_nyc 18y agoRemind me how "ombop" appeals to teenyboppers... they don't meditate, and Hanson went out of style years ago.
- alaskamiller 18y agoI went to the local junior high around here and asked the girls hanging around to come over and I told them whether or not omgpop.com sounds awesome. They said yes. Then some school admin guy came over and told me to go away.
- sam_in_nyc 18y agoDid you ask about ombop.com, the name that this thread about?
- alaskamiller 18y agoOh hey, I'm a tard with the grayed out texts.
- sam_in_nyc 18y agoI thought it was pretty clear that I was talking about "ombop.com" and not "omgpop.com." If you read only the first four words of my post, before accosting junior high girls, this would have been obvious.
- jfarmer 18y agoHave you talked with any, or are you just guessing? For all you know they ran a targeted ad campaign and picked the highest converting product name for their target demographic. That's what I'd do, at least as an input into the decision-making process. That aside, having built products for teenagers, I think this name is totally fine. They all use txtspk and omgpop makes perfect sense in that vernacular.
- sam_in_nyc 18y agoI think omgpop.com is an awesome name, and I think that they're going to do very well. I don't think that "ombop.com," what I assumed this sub-conversation was about (by virtue of replying to the post about it), is a good name.
- bobbyi 18y ago> If you don't use the OMG acronym its completely meaningless. I don't use that acronym and I knew what it meant.