On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Conscious User <consciousu...@aol.com> wrote: > > > I think this does quite a lot for clearing up the purpose of that field. > > But if you just look at that without prior/external knowledge, you still > > would have to ask: Say where? To whom? > > I agree. In fact, seconds after sending the mockup I wondered if it > wouldn't confuse users into thinking it was a IM reply field, like > the gnome-shell message tray: > > http://people.gnome.org/~mccann/shell/mockups/20090630/04-chat-details.png > > As much as I hate to admit it (and God knows how much I do), I don't > think that there is a brand-neutral word as effective as that dreadful > word, "tweet".
Maybe rather than lamenting the fact that there isn't an established service-agnostic term for tweeting/denting/status-ing, we can see this as an opportunity to coin one and put some momentum behind it. It's something people have desired for a long time anyway. The only reasonable candidate I can think of at the moment is "shout," which benefits from (a) being both a noun and a verb, and (b) being familiar as a result of "shoutboxes" -- which don't serve precisely the same function, of course, but are similar in that they're public messages. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
