What’s in a Name?
January 10, 2007
I’m back. A little gap there while I headed to NYC for a short conference. Any guesses as to which conference?
I wanted to post a link to this article over at franticindustries. It’s another post on our prior topic of the ‘WebOS’ which was basically just agreement with simplerich. I’m still not convinced OS is the right nomenclature.
I know what your saying, does it really matter what it’s called? Well consider this, Gravity existed long before Newton called it Gravity but he’s still considered to have ‘invented’ Gravity (Seth Godin, The Big Moo, pgs. 17 & 18). So here’s your chance to ‘Invent’ what Goowy, Netvibes and PageFlakes have already created!
January 11, 2007 at 8:24 am
Do you like the name “webtop” for that class of application framework?
January 12, 2007 at 3:27 am
I like webtop a lot, and use it a lot as it’s closest I think to summarizing what I mean when I say it, and what the apps seem to do that I use it with.
January 13, 2007 at 2:02 am
I also think Webtop works.
Note that there are only dead trademarks for Webtop so it’s available if you want to grab it. I looked at the Wikipedia entry and it seems somewhat in line. It has it as a synonym to ‘web desktop’.