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140 Characters? Just Post A Picture On DailyBooth (YC S09)

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Re: 140 Characters? Just Post A Picture On DailyBooth (YC S09)

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Post by whughes »

sho wrote: post #12
electronslave wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, booth. Like a photo booth. Not like John Wilkes.

I guess the point I was trying to make was that "photo booth" is far from the first word association that comes to mind when I hear "booth". The first would be a table at a restaurant; the second would be a phone booth. Whenever I hear the name I am confused and have to remember what it is. The mental concept that springs to mind upon hearing the phrase "daily booth" is, maybe, someone who visits the same restaurant…

Photo Booth is also the name of the built-in Mac OS X webcam demo app, which is probably known to a lot of their users. I would think of a ticket booth, too, but frankly I think the "daily" part is the weak link here. It's not engaging like the You in YouTube.

Re: 140 Characters? Just Post A Picture On DailyBooth (YC S09)

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Post by windsurfer »

tetsuo13 wrote: post #10

Direct link to site without the TechCrunch article: http://dailybooth.com/ In Chrome, the front page has many broken images, the live map page is blank other than a caption at the bottom-left, and viewing the site's blog via the link at the bottom produces an error about an invalid user.

In Firefox, you get a different interface if you use 3.0 compared to 3.5

Re: 140 Characters? Just Post A Picture On DailyBooth (YC S09)

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Post by breck »

sho wrote: post #7

I will never get over what a weird name "Daily Booth" is. Booth!?

I like the name a lot. I don't remember if I liked it at first. But now I clearly get the association with photo booth(and the reference to all of those 1 picture a day for 7 years youtube videos).

Re: 140 Characters? Just Post A Picture On DailyBooth (YC S09)

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Post by c3o »

billclerico wrote: post #3

i love the site, but the real congrats are on the traction. the numbers speak for themselves.

Why is the data on all the traffic stats sites so far off for them? I know those sites are hardly accurate, but my own startup with significantly less than 1M uniques shows at least as equal to dailybooth.com (and more often than not towers above them) on all of Compete/Alexa/Google Trends/Quantcast, even though their graph published on TC claims >3M. Is there maybe something about the Twitter integration that those sites can't track?
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