Saturday, February 14, 2009

Making up stuff

The mission for a club is usually to make up stuff for fun or other purposes.  As the first order of things for this "technology" club, we decided to make up a product and then make up a name for it.

The product to be made is a phone application that is capable of taking pictures with a phone camera, tag the photo with latitude and longitude (the fancy name is GPS positions) and then send to an easily accessible place on the internet.  Afterwards, one can download photos first and then store at photo sharing web sites, or directly get published by media web sites who are fans of RSS feed and content sharing.  

As far as making up product name goes, the first name made up was "pasffypl", which stood for "point and shoot first, find your photos later".  The word "pasffypl" sounded German or Dutch, but it is actually in real authentic English.  It was influenced by the name "Haagen-dazs", which had no real meaning in any language.  Pasffypl at least meant something in English.

Some people might ask, "a name that means nothing? what will that product do"?  The product might turn out to be a product that does nothing, with a name that means nothing.  What a great combination?  People love that stuff.

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