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Saturday, May 12, 2007
sharehound 1.2.2alpha is out
1.2.1 was only a pair days before but I can't wait to bring this feedback function up..
(minimalistic) changelog:
** Improvements
* hosts screen: search by address function (only exact match currently)
* introduced user feedback link
(minimalistic) changelog:
** Improvements
* hosts screen: search by address function (only exact match currently)
* introduced user feedback link
users feedback on sharehound
Feel free to leave a comment here on your experience with sharehound product. Any language is OK.
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sharehound name
I beleive I was pretty lucky to get the 'sharehound' name back in February 2006 (thanks to Vasily Orlov for suggesting it!). Google search results for 'sharehound' were pretty empty at that time, just pair of email addresses, nothing more. So I took the name, and now my project is perfectly identified by this name with google or anything. Happy with it I attached a TM sign next to sharehound logo (as seen on project page) to make it clear that I wish to own the trademark.
Recently I found that now (from Jan 2007) there's also sharehound.com, a files-searching public service. Functionally it's similar to my opensource project but it's completely unrelated to it. I'm sure that owners of that service are aware of my project's existence (just as I'm sure they use web search engines :) and still chose to use my project's name. Strange guys.. Remember that 'proprietary rights in relation to a trademark may be established through actual use in the marketplace' (Wikipedia), so I would have them even without that TM sign.
Just to make it clear - my sharehound is not a service, it's an opensource product. It could be used as a service as it's web based too but I don't have plans to do it - I think for public users it would be interesting only as a search tool for mostly illegal content (music, video files), so it would be banned as soon as it gets popular - definitely not what I would like.
Potentially this name collision can make some problems for me - for example, people will propagate both good and bad experience from sharehound.com to my product. Now the service seems to be pretty unknown and doesn't make any visible problems to me, so I hesitate to spend any resources to go into trials now.. And may be sharehound.com will manage to get rich - then it will be worth money to trial them, ha ha!
For sharehound.com owners - guys, come on, pick some other name - it's not too late now.
Recently I found that now (from Jan 2007) there's also sharehound.com, a files-searching public service. Functionally it's similar to my opensource project but it's completely unrelated to it. I'm sure that owners of that service are aware of my project's existence (just as I'm sure they use web search engines :) and still chose to use my project's name. Strange guys.. Remember that 'proprietary rights in relation to a trademark may be established through actual use in the marketplace' (Wikipedia), so I would have them even without that TM sign.
Just to make it clear - my sharehound is not a service, it's an opensource product. It could be used as a service as it's web based too but I don't have plans to do it - I think for public users it would be interesting only as a search tool for mostly illegal content (music, video files), so it would be banned as soon as it gets popular - definitely not what I would like.
Potentially this name collision can make some problems for me - for example, people will propagate both good and bad experience from sharehound.com to my product. Now the service seems to be pretty unknown and doesn't make any visible problems to me, so I hesitate to spend any resources to go into trials now.. And may be sharehound.com will manage to get rich - then it will be worth money to trial them, ha ha!
For sharehound.com owners - guys, come on, pick some other name - it's not too late now.
why
I have an opensource project, sharehound, and I want to hear more from users of this application. Hope this blog will help.
I plan to make a post in this blog for each release of the app, and put a link in the app leading to Blogger's comment form for that post.
Eventually the app may even have its own comment form that will post to blogger.com, may be providing some additional info about posting context (e.g. a stacktrace). I'd be glad to see that blogger.com already have some tools for that, like some posting API. From the other side what I don't want to deal with is overcoming Internet connection barriers at sharehound deployment places - proxies etc, so this approach still has smth to think about.
I'm not a native speaker, please excuse my bad English.
I plan to make a post in this blog for each release of the app, and put a link in the app leading to Blogger's comment form for that post.
Eventually the app may even have its own comment form that will post to blogger.com, may be providing some additional info about posting context (e.g. a stacktrace). I'd be glad to see that blogger.com already have some tools for that, like some posting API. From the other side what I don't want to deal with is overcoming Internet connection barriers at sharehound deployment places - proxies etc, so this approach still has smth to think about.
I'm not a native speaker, please excuse my bad English.
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