meebo.com

meebo.com

As a meaningless name, meebo.com does have a certain ‘feel’ about it that seems appropriate for its function.  The service was started as one of the founders had a problem remembering their 13 instant messenger accounts. Meebo aggregates your messenger accounts in one place, so you can be super-connected. Yep. Meeee! It’s all about Meeeee! bo. Read more

chi.mp

chi.mp.logo

The latest trend has been away from the dotcom arena. So complete was the pillage of the .com TLD, with every single LLLL.com either used for some silly named website or hoarded by domainers, that the scorched earth policy has moved to ‘unconventional’ TLDs. Read more

kijiji.com

kijiji logo

One of the more recent catalysts to start this site, and so receiving the dubious honour of being the first post is kijiji.com. When I first saw kijiji.com ads online I assumed it was an horribly misguided startup living in 2001 throwing their money away on a badly branded craigslist clone. I was basically right, except the year was 2008 and the startup was in fact eBay.com Read more

What’s This All About

silly web20 logos

This site arose out of the countless times I’ve seen a domain and thought “What the hell is that name supposed to mean. What do they do?”.

You know the type. Jafoodle. Smingler. Wajibbit.  Tells you nothing of the purpose of the site, and doesn’t even have any obvious etymology. Read more

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