Re:On Diaspora's Social Network, You Own Your Data
by bmelton on Friday May 11, 2012 @02:11PM
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I have a bond with naturally occurring English words as product names. I don't think they should apologize, or feel bad for having a name that people don't know.
I would HOPE that people would learn from it, and end up with a slightly better vocabulary, and be thankful for it.
On the flipside, it's NOT a commonly used word, so SEO for it (at least for the name) should be drop dead easy. A search for Diaspora should contain either a wiki link to a disambiguation page, or an article about them. That's about as good as you can hope for, SEO wise, though I obviously have to concede that the name fails the obvious pronounceability test, but as more and more of our interactions are relegated to clicks, that's becoming less of an issue than it used to be.
I would HOPE that people would learn from it, and end up with a slightly better vocabulary, and be thankful for it.
On the flipside, it's NOT a commonly used word, so SEO for it (at least for the name) should be drop dead easy. A search for Diaspora should contain either a wiki link to a disambiguation page, or an article about them. That's about as good as you can hope for, SEO wise, though I obviously have to concede that the name fails the obvious pronounceability test, but as more and more of our interactions are relegated to clicks, that's becoming less of an issue than it used to be.