The chat that birthed blippr 16 months ago
- 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.
