tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869435496538771132.post1633508630084756381..comments2008-09-14T11:59:52.328+01:00Jason Rumneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13356045111965506282noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869435496538771132.post-13610605062532265812005-12-05T20:58:00.000Z2005-12-05T20:58:00.000ZWell, there are no VC&#39;s banging at our door for magnolia quite yet, but I can give a bit of background on why we went with the domain name we did. <br /><br /><br /> First off, on our identity crisis about whether we&#39;re all hip to the web 2.0 thing or just another last millenium dotcom. Our team has feet in both sides of that divide, and while we&#39;re excited about stuff coming out of web 2.0, we&#39;re also a business. So yeah we think we&#39;re both, and we think they can go together nicely. <br /><br /><br /> Second, some background on the name itself... We settled on Magnolia for a name early on because we like the idea of unfolding experience, just like in the PT Anderson film, and we like the sound of the name itself. We would have gone for magnolia.com in a heartbeat, but if you go there and see who owns it, you&#39;ll know right away that we weren&#39;t going to get it from them. So the dots-in-the-middle idea seemed a good way to get the name we wanted, but also gave us a way to nod to del.icio.us, who we have big respect for because they started the whole social bookmarking thing. Hopefully when we launch in January what we have to offer will make up for any domain name offensiveness :) <br /><br /><br /> So, is tagging the semantic web but in rattier clothes than we expected? I don&#39;t think so, but I think it&#39;s potentially a part of its real, functional beginnings. Semantics will be a lot more than keywords, and folksonomies are too chaotic to guide machine decision making on our behalf alone.&gt;Toddhttp://ma.gnolia.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869435496538771132.post-42296552073016573942005-11-07T23:13:00.000Z2005-11-07T23:13:00.000ZHi Jason, <br />I&#39;m contacting you on behalf of a website company based in New Zealand. We did a random google search on the Shin Kansen train, and found yours. We presented a couple of images to our client and yours was one of it. Our client hasn&#39;t made a decision on the final image, however, we would like to explore the opportunity of using the image and what terms and conditions we could agree on for a web base usage of the image. There was no direct email address on your site hence adding a comment to your blog. The url to the image is http://jasonrumney.net/japan/ <br /><br /><br /> The following are my contact details:- <br />hweiling@phosphor.co.nz <br />www.phosphor.co.nz <br />+64 9 3774626 <br /><br /><br /> Let me know what your thoughts are on this. <br />Thanks <br />Hweiling&gt;Hweilingnoreply@blogger.com