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Yes, the name "Circles" is awesome. It's agressive and appealing when seen from the perspective of "what do you offer that's better than Facebook", but also gen
by kj12345 16y ago
Yes, the name "Circles" is awesome. It's agressive and appealing when seen from the perspective of "what do you offer that's better than Facebook", but also generically pleasant if you just encountered it as a product.
- bvi 16y agoI'm positive it'll just be a matter of time before "Sphere" rolls out.
- Unseelie 16y agoNo, because people can't think in 3 dimensional Ven Diagrams.
- georgieporgie 16y agoPerhaps MonkeySphere, which begins ejecting least-touched contacts once you hit 100. http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html
- code_duck 16y agoAs far as just the name, Etsy just released a 'follow me' type feature called 'Circles' a couple of months ago. http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/shop-together-circles-and-activity-feeds-11231/ http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/shop-together-circles-... It's actually kind of confusing. Saying you 'circled' someone sounds odd, since it's not quite accurate. 'in your circle' vs 'in my circle' is kind of clunky compared to 'following me' or 'I follow'. They don't offer anything related to groups of friends, though. It's a generic implementation of the usual 'following' set up.
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- WalterGR 16y agoYes, the name "Circles" is awesome. Yup. Circles was also the name of social groups in Microsoft's threedegrees software.
- malnourish 16y agoIs that in a similar enough field for trademark infringement?
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- pbhjpbhj 16y agoWRT to the sibling post I'd be inclined to think that circles being such a common synonym/abbreviation for "social circles" that it lacks sufficient distinctiveness to indicate the origin of a product related to social networking. If they wanted an RTM then they should have gone for a misspelling.