January 12th, 2009

Startup Tip: Don't Pick A Name With "ebay" In It. (Tweebay Now Tweba).

After being “asked to rename Tweebay by a rather large corporate,” UK developer Paul Rawlings tells me he has decided to rename his Twitter marketplace Tweba. When I first wrote about Tweebay, a classifieds service that uses direct messages on Twitter to confirm bids, I wondered if “eBay might consider it a violation of its trademark.” The name effectively conveyed the idea that Tweebay was… → Read More