The chat that birthed blippr 16 months...
me [Jonathan]: to the tag team interactive pipeline, what do you think about tobebrief.com? A site where users submit their description of things in X characters or 30 seconds or less of movies, tv shows, books, etc. It would be hilarious. People don't want to read full, in depth reviews of crap. They could just read the short version of something. it would be an easy, easy site to do, i think. and it could generate a lot of page views.
Chris: Ooh, I like.
Not sure I like the name, but I like the concept
me: yeah. i'm thinking.
Something like abrev.com
Like abreviated.
abbreviated.
whatever.
something that represents SHORT
Chris: Hm, yeah. Let's keep thinking about it.
me: shortly.com
def.
Chris: Man, that would be the perfect application for a cell phone market.
me: absolutely.
I'm looking up synonyms for summary, short, brief, recap, etc.
I want it to be an abbreviation itself.
Cuz that would be clvr.
Chris: Hah, nice
We could just go with something web 2.0ish, nonsensical but short.
me: that's what i'm thinking.
Chris: blippr.com
It's a blip!
me: funny.
Chris: A short little blurb
me: shrtr
blrbr
Chris: That makes me think "brb, I have to use the shrtr"
me: blurbr
Chris: Makes me think blubber
One sec, registering blippr.com
I like that one
me: ok
what about blipd
Chris: I like the noun "blip" a lot
It's perfect
me: that way it's not a copy of flickr, either.
Chris: Eh, there are a billion non-vowel-r names out htere now
me: definitely. i like it dude. blippr could be a fun project.
very easy, for sure.
Chris: That's easy to think! Then we'll get into it and want to do a billion things with it :D
me: KISS. Keep it Simple Stupid
That would be the beauty of the site.
We want it to be easy, short.
Nothing fancy.
Chris: Central design philosophy :)
me: Let me work some concepts down. You keep working on first one, baby, and we'll be getting to everything else.
I like this idea though.
it's fun.
Blippr!!!!!!!1
Chris: Heheh
I like it
blippr.com registered.
Sep 1st