Naming and more

After our third session at Founder Institute I decided to try the new techniques for choosing the name for the my new project.

Well, I failed. First of all, I am very bad at giving quantitative scores to the names (and that was one of methods). I just can't say how distinctive or how much energy is in the name, especially, given range from 1 to 10. That's not the way my brain works. :)

For the second, I found useful to have more name characteristics, but I'm still pretty stick to just a few of them, constantly trying to understand what other ones should mean. I can understand:

1. The ease to say and spell.
2. Brevity and energy.
3. Is the name is attributed to the business? (not always important)
   
4. Dot com availability. I can also consider awkward names like here.i.am, but I'm still much to the old school of dotcoms.

So basically that's it.

And, yes, normally I start from searching the domain name, considering it's going to be the name. I don't really find it useful to come up with the names, and then look for the availability. Dot com is pretty much tight now, so likely you'll not have your name available. And I hate paying big bucks to get the domain name from resellers especially when your business even does not exist. I'm not a big believer into the fact that only the different domain name can make you a fortune (unless you got a really gold one and going to resell it for big times :).

I definitely learned a lot from the process of naming, but it looks like I'm going still do what I used to do before, maybe altering the process a little bit and add some more tricks and attributes to it.

On the other note, our next (fourth) session is going to be about IP. For those who thinks about IP as Internet Protocol only, in this case it's Intellectual Property. :)

I would be happy to write more on this subject, however, I never had any experience with protecting my IP rights before. I know how important is this, however, I don't really have a good idea of when should I do this and what actually should I protect. I saw so many weird "patents", that sometimes they feel to be more stupid, then crazy. I'm definitely going to learn a lot this time.

One more domain name

One more domain name is going for sale: HITHINT.COM. You're welcome with your propositions.

Two domains for sale

Two domain names for sale:

1. FUNDSEED.COM
2. WHATUHAVE.COM

Ping me back with reasonable propositions.

Shotscreen

Shotscreen goes for sale. Shotscreen is one of my projects that was raised from the raw idea, ready for a beta release now and it is going for sale.

Shotscreen is an online screen casting. It's written in PHP and Java. It can work on any platform that has JVM (Java Virtual Machine) installed, it could be either Windows, Mac or Linux (or any other Unix flavors, you pick one).

Shotscreen:
..."Do you want to create a demo video for your Web site? Are you developing a help guide for your service and want to make it easier to use and understand? Are you working with customers trouble issues and want to get a better feedback from them? You need a screencast. What is a screencast? Wikipedia says: a screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a video screen capture, often containing audio narration. Just as a screenshot is a picture of a user's screen, a screencast is essentially a movie of what a user sees on their monitor. We can help you to make it easy, intuitive and hassle-free. You will get your screencast recorded and uploaded within few clicks. You can download it to your computer. And you can share it with anyone"...

Why Shotscreen is good? ..."This is a dedicated service for creating, managing and sharing screen casts online.

• No software needs to be installed. All you need is a Web browser.
• No worries about expensive storage and maintenance. Servers can be a headache and it's on us!
• No charges for network bandwidth or computer time.
• No compatibility issues. Our service works on Mac's, PC's, Linux'es and even something else.
• No training needed. Our site is easy and straight forwarded. Our support is always here to help you."...

I'm completely out of time to keep it on track and I don't want to leave it as-is.

Either the domain name shotscreen.com or a whole Shotscreen project are open for bids. I'll consider any reasonable proposition.

If you'd like to try Shotscreen first, the invitiation code is a bosstalks08. I don't remember how many slots are left free, so feel free to ping me back if it doesn't work for you (I'll issue you a new one).

Once again, I'm open to any reasonable proposition and I will consider domain purchase only propositions as well.