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As an employee at an ad agency, I completely agree. (I mean JooJoo? Really?) Perhaps I wrote that sentence a bit odd, but I don't mean to imply myself that thi

As an employee at an ad agency, I completely agree. (I mean JooJoo? Really?) Perhaps I wrote that sentence a bit odd, but I don't mean to imply myself that this is what happened. The 'idea' central in this story simply fits similar tropes and themes I see on HN all the time. And you're right, the up-votes verify this.

vaksel 17y ago
they don't even own joojoo.com, it's some asian language site.
- dimarco 17y ago
  thejoojoo.com
  - potatolicious 17y ago
    Which is just lazy, terrible marketing. If you don't own the most obvious domain, do not use it as the name of your product. If I go to joojoo.com and don't find what I'm looking for, there's not a chance in hell I'm going to start iterating through other possibilities. I'm either going to hit up Google or give up.
    - aditya 17y ago
      It worked for a while for dropbox :)
      - potatolicious 17y ago
        That was a great recovery for dropbox - but note that at the end of the day they still needed dropbox.com. This isn't to say that you can't succeed despite a crappy domain name, but rather that when you haven't even locked down your brand yet, why commit to something that you can't secure the domain for?
    - BigDamnDeal 17y ago
      Seriously! I know this moron who named his site Facebook but hosted it at thefacebook.com!
    - pyre 17y ago
      You're missing the fact that most people use Google as their 'location bar' and not the actual location bar. People literally do a Google search on Yahoo.com to get to Yahoo's site.
      - eli 17y ago
        And in Chrome they're the same thing
        mlinsey 17y ago
        Folks who search for the term "yahoo" at google.com to get to yahoo probably don't use Chrome.
        FreeRadical 17y ago
        Also in IE7 (maybe IE7 onwards)
Loic 17y ago
JooJoo is pronounced "joujou" in French, which is the diminutive form of "jouet", a toy. This form is only used when referring to the toys of little kids up to 7 year old. $500 for a little kid toy? Not for me, sorry. They are definitely missing the TechCrunch ad agency now to not make such a basic check.
- kstenson 17y ago
  it also is Cantonese slang for penis
  - rbanffy 17y ago
    The screen is 12 inches. I suddenly feel... small.
  - cakesy 17y ago
    I am pretty sure every word is slang for penis in some language.
- evgen 17y ago
  That same french term became synonymous with supernatural fetishism in the US (via west african slaves) and was turned into "juju", which is almost always preceded by the word "bad" as another way of saying bad luck or a feeling of impending doom....
  - narag 17y ago
    In Spain it was introduced by Tarzan films.
- jodrellblank 17y ago
  It's a little kid's toy because the name sounds a bit like the French word for little kid's toy, so you won't buy one? Did you buy an Acer Ferrari laptop because you thought it was really a Ferrari sports car? What a daft reason for not buying one.
  - 17y ago
GavinB 17y ago
FusionPad or Fusion Tablet would have been fine. Neither are already being used for anything that i could see.

vaksel 17y ago

they don't even own joojoo.com, it's some asian language site.

dimarco 17y ago
thejoojoo.com
- potatolicious 17y ago
  Which is just lazy, terrible marketing. If you don't own the most obvious domain, do not use it as the name of your product. If I go to joojoo.com and don't find what I'm looking for, there's not a chance in hell I'm going to start iterating through other possibilities. I'm either going to hit up Google or give up.
  - aditya 17y ago
    It worked for a while for dropbox :)
    - potatolicious 17y ago
      That was a great recovery for dropbox - but note that at the end of the day they still needed dropbox.com. This isn't to say that you can't succeed despite a crappy domain name, but rather that when you haven't even locked down your brand yet, why commit to something that you can't secure the domain for?
  - BigDamnDeal 17y ago
    Seriously! I know this moron who named his site Facebook but hosted it at thefacebook.com!
  - pyre 17y ago
    You're missing the fact that most people use Google as their 'location bar' and not the actual location bar. People literally do a Google search on Yahoo.com to get to Yahoo's site.
    - eli 17y ago
      And in Chrome they're the same thing
      - mlinsey 17y ago
        Folks who search for the term "yahoo" at google.com to get to yahoo probably don't use Chrome.
      - FreeRadical 17y ago
        Also in IE7 (maybe IE7 onwards)

Loic 17y ago

JooJoo is pronounced "joujou" in French, which is the diminutive form of "jouet", a toy. This form is only used when referring to the toys of little kids up to 7 year old. $500 for a little kid toy? Not for me, sorry. They are definitely missing the TechCrunch ad agency now to not make such a basic check.

kstenson 17y ago
it also is Cantonese slang for penis
- rbanffy 17y ago
  The screen is 12 inches. I suddenly feel... small.
- cakesy 17y ago
  I am pretty sure every word is slang for penis in some language.
evgen 17y ago
That same french term became synonymous with supernatural fetishism in the US (via west african slaves) and was turned into "juju", which is almost always preceded by the word "bad" as another way of saying bad luck or a feeling of impending doom....
- narag 17y ago
  In Spain it was introduced by Tarzan films.
jodrellblank 17y ago
It's a little kid's toy because the name sounds a bit like the French word for little kid's toy, so you won't buy one? Did you buy an Acer Ferrari laptop because you thought it was really a Ferrari sports car? What a daft reason for not buying one.
- 17y ago

GavinB 17y ago

FusionPad or Fusion Tablet would have been fine. Neither are already being used for anything that i could see.