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Which would lead us to the obvious question, why didn't they change their name in the first place?

by marcusbooster 17y ago

danielrhodes 17y ago
Twitvid.io was already launched when Twitvid.com came out.
- axod 17y ago
  twidvid.com was already registered when twitvid.io launched :/
  - danielrhodes 17y ago
    That's true, but it wasn't owned by the current owners. Not long after we launched, they started poking around twitvid.io and testing out features, as they've continued to do. A few days later, they bought the domain. We are all for competition. However, it becomes an unfair competitive environment when your competitor's sole strategy is to confuse and deceive users rather than innovate. In a few cases in the past couple weeks they have been @ replying people who had used us, telling them to use the "real" TwitVid.
    - axod 17y ago
      I feel for you, but in the minds of users, the .com is the 'real' one.
    - dannyr 17y ago
      daniel, Those .com people are really shady. I would never give my password to them. Once the big Tech blogs write up about this, the credibility of the owners are definitely gone. Who would want to work with them? Nevertheless, why didn't you guys just change the name? By sticking with twitvid, you opened the door for people to take advantage of you. Similarly, if you have a domain name, buy both the singular and plural versions. You should even buy the misspellings as well. A good example is RealityPicks.com which redirects to RealityPick.com.
      - jimboyoungblood 17y ago
        Regarding the credibility of the twitvid.com people: "It’s backed with money from venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson and a group of angel investors, including Stanford’s Rajeev Motwani (early advisor to Google), Amidzad, former Google employees Georges Harik and Aydin Senkut, as well as XG Ventures, another group of former Googlers." (From http://venturebeat.com/2009/05/23/twitvidcom-lets-you-tweet-videos-astonishingly-quick-in-real-time/ http://venturebeat.com/2009/05/23/twitvidcom-lets-you-tweet-...) That's a pretty credible group, if you ask me...
    - anigbrowl 17y ago
      In fairness, that's not their sole strategy. They already have an existing video sharing site, eatlime.com, with 500k global monthlies (per quantcast), and they've been leveraging that technology to offer more speed. This was already covered in http://venturebeat.com/tag/cotwitvidcom/ http://venturebeat.com/tag/cotwitvidcom/ I don't mean to be an ass, but if you couldn't meet the asking price for twitvid.com that ought to have thrown up a red flag. Did you have market research/business intelligence on your competitors in the video sharing space before launch?
    - abl 17y ago
      Daniel, Did you guys have the name twitvid registered as a trademark?

Which would lead us to the obvious question, why didn't they change their name in the first place?

danielrhodes 17y ago

Twitvid.io was already launched when Twitvid.com came out.

axod 17y ago
twidvid.com was already registered when twitvid.io launched :/
- danielrhodes 17y ago
  That's true, but it wasn't owned by the current owners. Not long after we launched, they started poking around twitvid.io and testing out features, as they've continued to do. A few days later, they bought the domain. We are all for competition. However, it becomes an unfair competitive environment when your competitor's sole strategy is to confuse and deceive users rather than innovate. In a few cases in the past couple weeks they have been @ replying people who had used us, telling them to use the "real" TwitVid.
  - axod 17y ago
    I feel for you, but in the minds of users, the .com is the 'real' one.
  - dannyr 17y ago
    daniel, Those .com people are really shady. I would never give my password to them. Once the big Tech blogs write up about this, the credibility of the owners are definitely gone. Who would want to work with them? Nevertheless, why didn't you guys just change the name? By sticking with twitvid, you opened the door for people to take advantage of you. Similarly, if you have a domain name, buy both the singular and plural versions. You should even buy the misspellings as well. A good example is RealityPicks.com which redirects to RealityPick.com.
    - jimboyoungblood 17y ago
      Regarding the credibility of the twitvid.com people: "It’s backed with money from venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson and a group of angel investors, including Stanford’s Rajeev Motwani (early advisor to Google), Amidzad, former Google employees Georges Harik and Aydin Senkut, as well as XG Ventures, another group of former Googlers." (From http://venturebeat.com/2009/05/23/twitvidcom-lets-you-tweet-videos-astonishingly-quick-in-real-time/ http://venturebeat.com/2009/05/23/twitvidcom-lets-you-tweet-...) That's a pretty credible group, if you ask me...
  - anigbrowl 17y ago
    In fairness, that's not their sole strategy. They already have an existing video sharing site, eatlime.com, with 500k global monthlies (per quantcast), and they've been leveraging that technology to offer more speed. This was already covered in http://venturebeat.com/tag/cotwitvidcom/ http://venturebeat.com/tag/cotwitvidcom/ I don't mean to be an ass, but if you couldn't meet the asking price for twitvid.com that ought to have thrown up a red flag. Did you have market research/business intelligence on your competitors in the video sharing space before launch?
  - abl 17y ago
    Daniel, Did you guys have the name twitvid registered as a trademark?