Name change for npdigg.org! Post your suggestions

npdigg.org, nptech, tagging

Name change for npdigg.org! Post your suggestions

03.08.07 | Comments

In deference to Kevin Rose (and because he asked nicely), I need to change the name of npdigg.org. Here are suggestions:

npigg.org <-- my favorite -- I like the idea of the nonprofit pig
nppligg.org
np-plig.org <-- Beth Kanter's suggestion
npsocialsearch.org <-- Beth Kanter's suggestion
mynptags.org
mytags.org

UPDATE: more suggestions
kikono.org - Swahili for one insect antenna
vikono.org - Swahili plural for insect antennae
chuguu.org - Swahili for anthill
BTW, there's a great Swahili resource and it’s unfunded. If any of the Swahili words get picked, I will make a donation.

Definitely open to it, I’ll do a poll for this one too.

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On 03.08.07 usha venkatachallam said:

To my mind, npdigg brings the image of a big anteater slurping little ants scurrying around. Or, tiny ants hurrying about collecting food.

So, I would like to suggest:
http://www.aardvark.org or http://www.npanthill.org

Maybe I should first get some breakfast and then check if all this eating analogy sounds as interesting afterwards.

On 03.08.07 Peter Gulka said:

npstars.org
touchthewaffle.org

I kinda like npanthill.org

On 03.08.07 Dawn said:

I like kikono and mytags.

What about:
nptags
npkikono
kikonodigz
npdigz

On 03.08.07 Allan Benamer said:

Ooooh very nice Peter and Dawn. Thanks!

On 03.08.07 Josh said:

I would vote for kikono.org. It has a nice sound to it.

On 03.08.07 Allan Benamer said:

Yeah I like it too — I was thinking that instead of Digging a site — you can kik it to kikono. I’m also thinking chuguu is a bit hard for English-speakers to say. What if we sounded it out a bit? choogoo? Too weird? Not easy to make a verb out of it too.

On 03.08.07 Dawn said:

Yeah, I like the play on kikono… Iinteresting thing about the name change. I just did something similar, but not for potential trademark issues.

On 03.09.07 Beth said:

I get grossed out with the insect names — yuck.

And, is an anthill the right metaphor? Isn’t this a distributed network versus a centralized place?

On 03.09.07 Allan Benamer said:

Haha — well, hmm. When you’re dealing with humans, you’re not talking network nodes. You’re talking about crowds and crowdsourcing. I would suggest that this is more of an anthill because we’re looking at the possible emergent properties that arise from simple behaviors (like ants). The pligg I’ve set up is going to create NEW behaviors unlike that of the nptech tag stream. What those behaviors are have already been presaged in digg.com. That is, if you’re an early and more importantly, published, submitter of the nonprofit Pligg, then you’ll get much more props than you ordinarily would have just because of the informal social networks that the software supports. You heard it hear first, those of you who jump on early to the Pligg and start posting will get an inordinate share of netfame. Netfame is yours — if you want it.

On 03.09.07 Beth said:

Allan, network is the same crowds and crowdsourcing. The difference here is that you have digg social design embedded into an existing community. The software assumes different behaviors than the tagging community norm. So, the question is of adoption barriers or hurdles.

BTW, what names were already squatted.

In terms of network or crowd sourcing behavior, I suggest you read my friend Ken Thompson’s bioteams manifesto
http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2006/09/ken_thompsons_s.html

On 03.09.07 Allan Benamer said:

To me, a network and crowdsourcing are very different items. A network is more like a cartesian grid of separate points. They’re loosely coupled, unaffected by the actions of the nodes around them.

What we’re doing here with the Pligg is adding a self-governing algorithm (voting, user statistics) and thicker couplings between the nodes (private messaging, discussions, tell a friend). This WILL create new emergent behaviors simply because people will seek out a different currency, netfame, that occurs within the community. I think the major hurdles are finding the key submitters that will make npdigg.org THE best site for breaking news about the nonprofit sector. I’m more worried about the submissions piece. People will come because the content here will be posted before anyone else and because they’ll find the filtering that occurs here a great way to sort out the news.

The names that got squatted on are the crossed out ones in the poll announcement post.

On 03.10.07 Beth said:

hmm .. I’m logging in from someone else’s laptop and want to visit the site, but you don’t have a link in that post. What is a new reader who hasn’t been following this thread discovers it?
context ..

On 03.11.07 Allan Benamer said:

The link is there now. I guess I’m old school but if I don’t see a link, I do type it in you know

On 03.11.07 Beth said:

Well, one can’t assume that all visitor behavior models their own!

On 03.11.07 abenamer said:

Agreed. I guess I was just being obtuse. Let’s just hope that the new users were smart enough to see the npdigg.org announcement image on the right.

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