Posted August 5th, 2006 @ 01:00am by Erik J. Barzeski
Just wondering… if one were to recreate PulpFiction (i.e. all that it was and then some on top of that), what would you name such an application if you were in charge of naming such a product?
Assume for the sake of argument that "NetNewsWire," "PulpFiction," "NewsFire," "Safari," and all variations and others not named here are not eligible names. 😉
This blog contains posts, all written by me, and comments, only some of which were written by me.
About Me
Disclaimer
The Sand Trap
… via Email
firstname@lastname.com
(Think about that one a little.)
… via IM
AIM: iacas
MobileMe: iacas
flickr: iacas
Yahoo: iacas
Twitter: iacas
MSN: iacas@hotmail.com
Xbox Live: erikjb
Google Talk: erikjb@gmail.com
ICQ: 8186546
Don't email me at any of the above IM addresses or I may never see the email. I use these accounts primarily for chat (IM) only.
… on Facebook
http://facebook.com/iacas
Donate Life: Because if you're not using your body parts, someone else can.
Posted 04 Aug 2006 at 11:02pm #
* Read Only
* Extra Extra
* Crocodile
Enjoy!
Posted 04 Aug 2006 at 11:44pm #
NewsNow popped into my head first when I read the post.
Posted 04 Aug 2006 at 11:47pm #
Sorry to double post, but as soon as I hit post I thought News Stand might work well too.
Posted 05 Aug 2006 at 9:13am #
LiveNews.
Posted 05 Aug 2006 at 10:07am #
NewsSpy is what popped into my mind first. NewsNow is good. NewsQuest would work.
PF is about the only app left that is still translated for me. I've written the new owner a couple of times and like you got no respnse.
While I own a licensed copy of NNW its not as functional for me as PF is.
Posted 05 Aug 2006 at 10:27am #
NewsAgent
FeedAgent
Feeds
FeedReader
NewsFeeds
Posted 05 Aug 2006 at 12:32pm #
I like Crocodile also.
Posted 05 Aug 2006 at 3:19pm #
NotAnotherRSSReader 😉
Posted 05 Aug 2006 at 4:12pm #
I'll take it any way you can name it and at any reasonable price. I love PF, but it really needs some help and the most recent update (how long ago was that?!?)really screwed with things so I had to back it off a bit.
Posted 05 Aug 2006 at 5:21pm #
Avoiding the obvious RSS, Feed, or News names just because you may want to set yourself apart from the crowd, I tried to think of the symbolism of an RSS reader.
In a way it's a sort of hunter-gatherer, hunting out news in feeds and gathering them up for you. A little reading about hunter-gatherers on Wikipedia tells me they lived in the Neolithic era. A little trimming and voila.
Neolith means "new stone," incidentally, which is a reference to the Stone age, thus a neolith is a new tool.
Posted 10 Aug 2006 at 3:55pm #
PulpFacts?
What about NewsBuster, News2U, NewsOnTime, NewsButter (don't know why, don't know why...), Feeds4U, Feed4Less...
As you can probably tell, I could go on and on.