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it's a CAT!
Phew! I've just released the beta of spaces, under its new name: clevercactus. Lots of progress on the company side of things (more news soon). Clevercactus will be the company name, but the product name is still tentative, as is the logo--they're both in "beta" as well. cactus is the cat's name, and the company's mascot. :-) I released the beta internally to the spaces-dev list only, to allow for a few more days of testing, as well as polishing some details while starting to get feedback on it. The version will be released publicly next week. New features/Improvements include a streamlined UI with better navigation, more powerful filtering, optimized memory usage, speed, import speed and new implementation of the network protocols, among many others, and even a surprise new feature: Hotmail synchronization!.
If you want to download the beta to check it out, you can join the dev list, or
and I will reply with download instructions.
Offline for a while now! Over the past couple of days I've accumulated a few things I wanted to comment on, but I simply didn't have time. All of that (and some clevercactus beta screenshots as well!) later today.
Categories: clevercactus Comments (please see the comments & trackback policy).
You've probably seen this already, but just in case ... http://www.ectotherm.com/ect/clevercactus.htm Posted by: Bruno at April 25, 2003 3:51 PMHow's that for a crappy situation. You come up with a name which you are sure no one else will come up with only to find your self beat to the punch by a bunch of eco-sensitive iguana lovers! I always new that those lizards were trouble. Posted by: Anthony Eden at April 25, 2003 5:40 PMI did something similar a few years ago. I wanted to start a company to give tutorials online and decided that I wanted to call it Avedia, for Audio/Visual Education. I asked a couple programmer friends what they thought and did a search online for the name and came up with nothing. So then I bought the domain, incorporated, submitted a trademark on the name (look it up) and everything. Then a month into it I start talking about it for the first time in front of a woman who says, "'Avedia'? Like 'Aveda' the hair salons?" Sure enough - there's a large chain of hair salons and products called Aveda and as soon as my site went up I immediately started getting emails from women all over the country asking about hair stuff. It dogged me for the entire time I was trying to work on the biz. Ugh. So don't sweat it if you're not the only CleverCactus on earth... Make a bunch of money from the product and then hire a marketing firm or AHundredMonkeys.com to find a new name for you. :-) -Russ Posted by: Russ at April 25, 2003 10:39 PMyour software r0cks! Posted by: mal at June 5, 2003 9:36 PMCopyright © Diego Doval 2002-2007.
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