Grabbing users from John Gruber? That’s impossible as his writing and style is impeccable.
I could’ve gone explaining myself for hours, but I like short and to the point writing. It was just an idea to build a Mac centric site, covering more technical things, as Gruber obviously swayed in another direction.
As you may know, thinking of a name and registering a domain is not easy today, so I went with the simplest path, a play on well know brand.
Sorry, but quite honestly it's a low budget wannabe.
Daring Fireball is almost a brand name in the Mac power user world. Love him or hate him, most users that are more than mouse clickers on a webpage typically know about the site by now.
"Anything Fireball" is a rip off of the name, or brand. Whether you implied it or not, you're kinda sorta stealing his hard work to try to make yours more popular. Of course, you won't admit it because that would make you look bad. But it's pretty doubtful you'll fool anyone here even if you deny it.
You'd do yourself a real favor by coming up with a name based on your own creation, not someone else's. I doubt John will care, but you'll alienate your user base a bit by being so "copy-cat-ish."
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Grabbing users from John Gruber? That’s impossible as his writing and style is impeccable.
I could’ve gone explaining myself for hours, but I like short and to the point writing. It was just an idea to build a Mac centric site, covering more technical things, as Gruber obviously swayed in another direction.
As you may know, thinking of a name and registering a domain is not easy today, so I went with the simplest path, a play on well know brand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGRiTpCji0I
Sorry, but quite honestly it's a low budget wannabe.
Daring Fireball is almost a brand name in the Mac power user world. Love him or hate him, most users that are more than mouse clickers on a webpage typically know about the site by now.
"Anything Fireball" is a rip off of the name, or brand. Whether you implied it or not, you're kinda sorta stealing his hard work to try to make yours more popular. Of course, you won't admit it because that would make you look bad. But it's pretty doubtful you'll fool anyone here even if you deny it.
You'd do yourself a real favor by coming up with a name based on your own creation, not someone else's. I doubt John will care, but you'll alienate your user base a bit by being so "copy-cat-ish."