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Re: Dear Instagram

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Post by quaunaut »

mikejarema wrote: post #61
uptown wrote: post #21

Clickable link to the Bolt homepage: https://bolt.co/ I always find it annoying when the blog company logo doesn't bring you back to the company's homepage.

Me too, so what is best practice? I put together a simple layout for my company's blog and made this link very explicit specific, see: http://blog.vidoyen.com Is that more in line with a blog reader would generally expect? I'm genuinely curious, because I've seen variants of this comment time and time again on HN.

Your site would actually make it pretty easy:

Have the logo redirect to your homepage. Have the 'Blog' go to the blog feed.

Logos that don't go to the homepage drive me batty.

Re: Dear Instagram

#72

Post by TheHippo »

bhandziuk wrote: post #58

Dear Bolt.co, I truly wish you luck in your fight against Instagram. Name stealing is a rough game. I know because I have been traveling on Bolt buses for 8 years now ( http://www.boltbus.com/ ). I know there is some confusion because you have basically the same symbol. Maybe there aren't too many ways to vary a lightning bolt shooting through an "O" in the word "Bolt" but I welcome you (and Instagram to try). Sincer…

The difference is that Instagram is trying to build a similar product with the same name, whereas the mentioned bus company is just a bus company that has a few stops in the United States. So most of the people living on this world will never even get chance to confuse the two of them.

Re: Dear Instagram

#73

Post by bhandziuk »

sheetjs wrote: post #66
bhandziuk wrote: post #58

Dear Bolt.co, I truly wish you luck in your fight against Instagram. Name stealing is a rough game. I know because I have been traveling on Bolt buses for 8 years now ( http://www.boltbus.com/ ). I know there is some confusion because you have basically the same symbol. Maybe there aren't too many ways to vary a lightning bolt shooting through an "O" in the word "Bolt" but I welcome you (and Instagram to try). Sincer…

I think you miss the problem here. There is very little confusion between BoltBus and Bolt.co in the sense that they are in completely different industries and the likelihood of confusion is low. As bolt.co is claiming, there are many people who appear to be confused between instagram's offering and the company's product (they are arguably in the same space and possibly competitors).

Yes, I suppose you're right. Though how big would one of these need to be for the other to care? I surely could not name my blanket company Microsoft and get away with it, right?

Re: Dear Instagram

#74

Post by matthewmacleod »

TheHippo wrote: post #72
bhandziuk wrote: post #58

Dear Bolt.co, I truly wish you luck in your fight against Instagram. Name stealing is a rough game. I know because I have been traveling on Bolt buses for 8 years now ( http://www.boltbus.com/ ). I know there is some confusion because you have basically the same symbol. Maybe there aren't too many ways to vary a lightning bolt shooting through an "O" in the word "Bolt" but I welcome you (and Instagram to try). Sincer…

The difference is that Instagram is trying to build a similar product with the same name, whereas the mentioned bus company is just a bus company that has a few stops in the United States. So most of the people living on this world will never even get chance to confuse the two of them.

I don't really understand in what way this would be considered a similar product; aside from the fact it's a mobile app, they don't seem to overlap.

Re: Dear Instagram

#75

Post by virtualSatai »

diminish wrote: post #62
bhandziuk wrote: post #58

Dear Bolt.co, I truly wish you luck in your fight against Instagram. Name stealing is a rough game. I know because I have been traveling on Bolt buses for 8 years now ( http://www.boltbus.com/ ). I know there is some confusion because you have basically the same symbol. Maybe there aren't too many ways to vary a lightning bolt shooting through an "O" in the word "Bolt" but I welcome you (and Instagram to try). Sincer…

and here's the cms called http://bolt.cm I'm curious who got this name earlier.

Bolt.co registered 2010-07-21

Bolt.cm registered 2012-09-19

Bolt.cd earliest record 2011-01-04

Re: Dear Instagram

#76

Post by ajross »

micampe wrote: post #54
brandonmenc wrote: post #24

> Imagine how it would have felt if Google or Apple or Facebook had launched a photo-sharing app called Instagram in 2011. "Bolt" is a short, common word. "Instagram" is not (it's also more descriptive.) Unfortunately, the days of naming products desirable things like "bolt," and being able to defend them, legally or not, are over. The strange-made-up-word naming trend is annoying, but at least you're guaranteed a na…

> The strange-made-up-word naming trend is annoying Why? Is it really a “trend”? Chevrolet, Toyota, Lexus, Microsoft, Kodak, Leica, Nikon, Canon, Nokia, Rolex. Some of these are not entirely made up, but they sound like it if you are not familiar with small Japanese towns.

Toyota is the name of the founder, though the transliteration is archaic. We'd spell it "Toyoda" today.

Re: Dear Instagram

#78

Post by LeonidasXIV »

micampe wrote: post #54
brandonmenc wrote: post #24

> Imagine how it would have felt if Google or Apple or Facebook had launched a photo-sharing app called Instagram in 2011. "Bolt" is a short, common word. "Instagram" is not (it's also more descriptive.) Unfortunately, the days of naming products desirable things like "bolt," and being able to defend them, legally or not, are over. The strange-made-up-word naming trend is annoying, but at least you're guaranteed a na…

> The strange-made-up-word naming trend is annoying Why? Is it really a “trend”? Chevrolet, Toyota, Lexus, Microsoft, Kodak, Leica, Nikon, Canon, Nokia, Rolex. Some of these are not entirely made up, but they sound like it if you are not familiar with small Japanese towns.

> Toyota

Actually, Toyota[1] (豊田) is indeed a Japanese town, not even particularly small and is the home of Toyota Motor Corporation.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota,_Aichi

Re: Dear Instagram

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Post by bshimmin »

micampe wrote: post #54
brandonmenc wrote: post #24

> Imagine how it would have felt if Google or Apple or Facebook had launched a photo-sharing app called Instagram in 2011. "Bolt" is a short, common word. "Instagram" is not (it's also more descriptive.) Unfortunately, the days of naming products desirable things like "bolt," and being able to defend them, legally or not, are over. The strange-made-up-word naming trend is annoying, but at least you're guaranteed a na…

> The strange-made-up-word naming trend is annoying Why? Is it really a “trend”? Chevrolet, Toyota, Lexus, Microsoft, Kodak, Leica, Nikon, Canon, Nokia, Rolex. Some of these are not entirely made up, but they sound like it if you are not familiar with small Japanese towns.

"Chevrolet" was the surname of one of the founders. I suppose you could say it means "goat milk" (or some combination of "goat" and "milk", anyway) in French.
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