"I'd never use something called TiddlyWiki"

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Alex Hough

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May 15, 2015, 3:25:11 AM5/15/15
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Jeremy Ruston

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May 15, 2015, 3:30:00 AM5/15/15
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And I'd never use something called SharePoint! :)

Best wishes

Jeremy.


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Alex Hough

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May 15, 2015, 3:53:31 AM5/15/15
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Jeremy --- Sharepoint in irony shocker...

I was thinking of something more pro-Tw than the ironic

"Choose life. Choose Microsoft. Choose Excel. Choose Word. Choose PDF. Choose buyer lock in....

and started with this:

"Choose TiddlyWiki. Choose Life. Choose lightweight adaptable open source software crafted with love. Choose 


can anyone think of any other phrases beginning with "Choose" which could capture the TW ethos within the constraints chosen by Irvine Welsh in Trainspotting? [1]  -- just a mini brainstorm for some agile guerrilla marketing campaign...



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Alex Hough

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May 15, 2015, 4:03:43 AM5/15/15
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marketing slogan: Choose federated. Choose small. Choose fast. Choose TiddlyWiki

Matt... are you familiar with Trainspotting?

I wonder if marketing TW could be a touch more proactively "anti" the mainstream. TW is a punk rock product attracting those who are not afraid of challenging existing paradigms... TW is a three minute blast of pure power pop, an antidote to lumbering "prog rock" bloatware.

Another slogan: "Here are three concepts. Now wikify your life." - echoing the iconic "here are three chords, now form a band"

TW is like an indie band on a mission to change the world....

in brainstorm branding mode

Alex


Danielo Rodríguez

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May 15, 2015, 4:46:39 AM5/15/15
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Could someone translate me what that gui tried to say? Is he blaming tiddlywiky name? How can someone be so.... Mind closed?

Alex Hough

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May 15, 2015, 9:23:55 AM5/15/15
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yes.... it's the name: closed minds in UK corporate culture are not uncommon :(

Alex

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Could someone translate me what that gui tried to say? Is he blaming tiddlywiky name? How can someone be so.... Mind closed?
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Måns

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May 15, 2015, 9:47:54 AM5/15/15
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+1 :-D

Mark S.

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May 15, 2015, 11:55:27 AM5/15/15
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I know how he feels. I'd never buy a device that was an anagram of PAID.

Yeah, names like

Iron Wiki
Power PIM
Wiki Blazer

would be along the lines of American marketing.

You could take the Asian car-naming practice and pick an English word and make it sound vaguely Latin:

Accelada Wiki
Wiki Mundo
Wikia

There might have been the Swedish version:

Wikea

But that would never catch on because you have to set it up yourself and there are always pieces missing.

The Microsoft approach would be to take some word commonly used in business buzz and link it with the product. Like

Wiki One
Info Courier  
Visual Wiki

It could be worse. Shareware tends to have the cheesiest titles. That would make it something like:

Whacko Wiki







Mat

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May 15, 2015, 2:21:25 PM5/15/15
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I understand Groucho suffered similar problems - He refused to join any TiddlyWiki discussion group that would have him as a member. This is why he is not here, I think.


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David Gifford

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Some people just don't want to be tiddlated by their web apps
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