Making a Web Browser

[ben7]

Re: Making a Web Browser

Oh and any ideas for a new name?
WebOS is taken, CloudOS isn't but the domains are, PHPOS won't work obviously...
shoveOS sounds like crap...

Well what kinds of uses do you have in mind?

You will need to know a lot about programming to do this, even I dont know enough to be able to do this! (yes I know everybody else says the same thing)

-Ben

[shovenose]

Re: Making a Web Browser

We've already picked a new name. Try hard enough you can find it out... first one to figure it out and post it here wins!

[ratdude747]

Re: Making a Web Browser

netOS?

[toastygoodness]

Re: Making a Web Browser

lol what do we win?

[mariushm]

Re: Making a Web Browser

I'm sure netos is patented or trademarked somewhere also. Also,

http://download.cnet.com/Net-OS/3000...-10664459.html
http://cloudhighclub.com/cloud-os/
http://openp2p.com/pub/gl/33


Should pick something related to freedom, not relying on a single machine to access your applications, having everything in the "cloud" , if it's low on resources should also transmit that somehow...

FeatherOS for example.. or maybe it doesn't really have to have OS in the name... think of a fast, agile, light bird for example (colibri is already taken...)

later edit...hmm... if it starts with z.... don't see the connection, not to mention it's a bad letter to start with.

[shovenose]

Re: Making a Web Browser

I'm sure netos is patented or trademarked somewhere also. Also,

http://download.cnet.com/Net-OS/3000...-10664459.html
http://cloudhighclub.com/cloud-os/
http://openp2p.com/pub/gl/33


Should pick something related to freedom, not relying on a single machine to access your applications, having everything in the "cloud" , if it's low on resources should also transmit that somehow...

FeatherOS for example.. or maybe it doesn't really have to have OS in the name... think of a fast, agile, light bird for example (colibri is already taken...)

later edit...hmm... if it starts with z.... don't see the connection, not to mention it's a bad letter to start with.

What's wrong with Zulu?
Ubuntu is africa-related and so is Zulu :P
It sounds nice!

Anyway, how did you figure it out..
Oh and congrats you won:

PS: It's Zulu, not ZuluOS or Zulu OS, but I had to put os in the domain name because all the others were taken...

[mariushm]

Re: Making a Web Browser

I just accessed the website and it redirected me.

Zulu is very generic...

It's a language, it's a tribe/ethnic group, it's the last letter in the Nato alphabet, it's the us military time standard (equivalent to gmt) and it also means heaven in the nguni languages....

Some populations are very superstitious, as it starts with the last letter in the alphabet could hurt it...

There's also the psychological factor - people have a tendency to not trust names that sound weird to their ears - your market won't be Africa (at least initially), so for everyone else Zulu may sound too exotic. This psychological factor is also a part of why you sometimes find it funny that Chinese companies call their devices RonGong or FiveStars or other silly names - for them it's a pride and they honestly believe such names bring them luck.

Being so generic, you may have problems trademarking it but I'm not sure it's used in IT so it may work.

As it starts with Z your project will almost always be last in directory listings or whatever lists are sorted alphabetically... just think right now how many companies that start with Z you know in real world... I bet there's close to none.

But don't take my word, just look in the business list here:

http://investing.businessweek.com/re...asp?letterIn=Z

3 pages with companies - now compare with each other letter.. A for example has 23 pages, B has 13, C has 24 and so on...

As it's 4 letters only it would have been impossible to get a domain just with the name... leaving the generic-ity aside. There's no relation between the shortness of the name and the popularity - look at amazon or newegg or sephora or microsoft or mercedes etc etc


* I could only think of Zippo and Zappos and Zephyr Technologies and Zilog (dead, I think)... how many did you think of?

[shovenose]

Re: Making a Web Browser

Just sort them backward then Zulu will be in the front :P

You have some good points there but we're still going to call it Zulu :P

I didn't realize that redirect even worked , lol!