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Monday, July 31st, 2006

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Fortunately we settled on having "fan" be part of the name early on. Cialis uk, But fan- what. Kjøpe billig cialis, The possibilities were (sorta) endless. Each time we thought we had a winner, we'd rush over to instantdomainsearch.com and punch in the domain to see if it was still available. Fantabulous, Arizona AZ Ariz.. Taken. Fantropolis. Ditto, kjøpe billig cialis. Comprar cialis de descuento, Fantacular. Gone. Unbelievable.

If we uncovered a domain that was available, αγοράζουν φτηνά cialis, we'd jump up and down, high-five each other and celebrate like we'd won the state lottery no matter how bad the name. Kjøpe billig cialis, At various points in time the following contenders had us positively giddy: fanstations, fanslot, fanposts, fanpop, fanbase, fanhub, fanlinx, fanspy, fanbeat, fantown, fanedge, fanpage, fancast, fanpicks, fansof. αγοράζουν online cialis, For a little while I was particularly enamored by "fanglow". Dave Lu was partial to "fanfresh". Cliff liked "fanbase". Of course, Tennessee TN Tenn., after the initial euphoria, the lingering suckyness of these names would soak in (but only after we plunked down $10 to buy the domain).

I was especially proud when I came up with "aficionutto" (a nice little mashup off aficionado and nut), kjøpe billig cialis. Comprar cialis baratos, Thankfully Dave Lu hated it.*

For a little while our site was called "Fansters". I don't think that name ever sat well with any of us but it was the best we could come up with.

Thank goodness one day Dave Lu came up to me and said, "I've got it...Fanspots!" It was pretty much unanimous that that was the name to go with - though we did give second consideration to "Fanfresh", check previous order of cialis. From there things just fell into place. Kjøpe billig cialis, The "spot" was quickly adopted as our logo and individual topics on the site were coined "spots". Dave was especially happy that we had a verb to go with the name, Ostaa halvalla cialis, "fanspotting". It all came together perfectly.

So we spent the next 4 months building the site around the fanspots brand. Everything was going smoothly, cialis price in pakistan. And then, right before launch, a much larger corporation launched a sports social network called "Fanspot", kjøpe billig cialis. We were stunned. There was no way we could go head to head with another social network with nearly identical names. Köpa billiga cialis, We spent the next several hours scouring instantdomainsearch for a new name. Our morale was shattered. Kjøpe billig cialis, We had come so far only to be thwarted at the last moment by our now redundant brand.

Fortunately, the earlier brainstorming sessions had left us with a stockpile of other semi-suitable company names, cheap cialis for sale. Fanhound was out of the question. Dave suggested recycling "fanpop" which we already owned. Is cialis legal in thailand, We were somewhat wary of it initially, but I had always been fond of the "pop" brand as we had nearly gone with "globepop" as the name for our initial venture.

We slept on it, but by the next day, fanpop was sounding better and better, kjøpe billig cialis. Dave had made a new logo which had us jazzed. But more importantly, the name was scoring well with the women-folk (which at the end of the day is what really matters).

So after some additional scrambling the site that was originally known as Fansters and then Fanspots was reborn as Fanpop.

So when someone asks rhetorically, 'what's in a name?' I can only respond by saying, "A hell of a lot. Kjøpe billig cialis, Stress, laughter, care, disappointment, frustration, joy, ridiculousness and anguish. It's all there".

In the end a name is no trivial thing. The name needs to be that succinct nugget that encapsulates the attitude, energy and spirit behind the company. The name needs to be fun, short, memorable and unique. And the name needs to be something you can proudly stand behind, kjøpe billig cialis. I think fanpop is more than qualified on all counts.

(what. you woulda rather been surfing a site called 'aficianutto.com'. get outta here!).

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Thursday, July 6th, 2006

Osta cialis, I suppose, in all my life, the overused (at least in computer science circles) phrase "Hello world!" has never held more significance than it does now. For those of you unfamiliar with the ulterior meaning of this phrase, "Hello world!" is generally (if not in fact, then at least in spirit) the output of the first piece of code a programmer writes. In some sense, Cialis kopen, it is the birth of something new - the result of the first execution of a creation in a new language. Naturally, the program that spits out "Hello world!" is pretty useless, but it is the first wobbly step up a set of tricky new stairs that leads to something -- big.

Allow me to introduce myself. I am Michael Chu, and I write code, Osta cialis. I've been writing code for about as long as I can remember, cialis with no prescription legality. Like most people who start programming at age seven (well back in the early 1980's not too many kids were interested in computers - probably because the only game worth playing was Rogue) I started with BASIC and somehow found profound enjoyment in the activity. In 8th grade, my friend Jason and I discovered C. It was at that time when I first realized that computer programming could be something I would want to do to make a living. Osta cialis, By the end of college, I had used (and at one time or another had become proficient in) over a dozen computer languages, but found my preferences still lay with C. Cialis for jenter, More importantly, I was a bit burnt out on programming and really gungho about hardware design. I joined Intel and worked (more or less) diligently for them for six and a half years in various capacities. I programmed a little at the beginning, then it became less and less of my job until 5 years ago when programming ceased to be part of my world. In retrospect, Osta cialis online, my time at Intel was an amazing experience. I was heavily involved in several projects that have changed how computing takes place worldwide - but I wasn't enjoying my time at work, Osta cialis. During my last year and a half at Intel, I started a side project documenting some of my favorite recipes and writing up my kitchen notes in an online format. I started doing this with Blogger and, Billige cialis apotek, due to Blogger's shortcomings (not necessarily as a blog management system, but because my site had grown out of the standard blog mold), I ended up learning php and wrote Cooking For Engineers. Due to a general lack of morale and excitement for my job, I left Intel in the middle of February 2006, intending to concentrate on Cooking For Engineers and building it into a bigger website, cialis prices.

Meanwhile, Dave Lu wrote me an e-mail around the time of Christmas 2005. Osta cialis, He had read my site, liked the content, and was wondering if I'd be interested in joining a new start up. I responded with some mild interest, but felt it was unlikely to lead anywhere. Nevada NV Nev., I didn't know who this Dave guy was and I was planning on staying at Intel at least through my 8-week sabbatical (which I would have been eligible for on July 12, 2006). Dave seemed impatient and was not willing to wait until September to hire me on. Actually, he was kind in his e-mail, but suggested that by September most of the hard work would have been done, Texas TX Tex.. He would be happy to consider hiring me at that time as a supporting engineer, Osta cialis.

When I tendered my resignation with Intel, I sent Dave an e-mail with my resume and mentioned that I'd be interesting in finding out how his company was doing. We met up for lunch (Sushi in Mountain View) where Dave explained his vision for a website called Fansters. I thought it was a pretty cool idea but also explained to him my intentions of concentrating on Cooking For Engineers. Cialis for sale, I was impressed, though, and, when I got home, explained the concept to my wife, Tina, αγοράσετε cialis. Osta cialis, While explaining it, I thought, "Hmmm... it doesn't sound nearly as interesting or as cool when I explain it...", but Tina's reaction was, "That's sounds pretty neat. I'd want to use a site like that!" So, Halvalla cialis apteekki, I told Dave I was still interested. After a couple weeks of going back and forth between deciding to work for myself or a start up, Dave arranged for me to meet one of his co-founders. Cliff was their lead (and only) developer who had been working on the project in his spare time and had just quit his job to work full-time on. He seemed to know what he was doing and I got excited talking to him about programming, Osta cialis. (It sounds strange, but it's true.) The company (now Fanpop, Pennsylvania PA Penn., Inc.) brought me on board with a schedule that would slowly ramp me up on Fanpop and off working on Cooking For Engineers as my full-time occupation. By the last week of March, I was so excited that I started on a regular schedule working full-time on Fanpop.

The experience of working professionally as a coder is a new one for me. Alaska AK, I have always programmed computers as a hobby (sometimes not doing it for over a year, but always picking it back up again) and occassionally for work, but never as my primary function. At Fanspots, I've managed to work with Dave, Papa (Dave Papandrew), acheter cialis bon marché, and Cliff to produce something - well, I don't know any other phrase to describe it, except, AMAZING. Billige cialis Apotheke, A lot has changed in my life in the last few months since I quit Intel, found Fanpop, and helped build what is going to be an awesome new way to consume content on the internet. Rediscovering my love of programming (solving interesting problems and building something useful) has been the beginning of "something" - and I'm not sure where that "something" is going lead to. So, as we start seeing users playing with Fanpop and getting sucked into the fun, I say again, "Hello world!".

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Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

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