A software product name must make sense when the product is first released, but it's also important that the name make sense as it evolves. This is especially important for a product such as Radio, which is a programming platform with lots of communication ability. It will do lots of new things as it evolves, perhaps things we don't understand or envision now.

Think about when radio, as a medium, was young. It didn't mean just talk and music. TV hadn't been invented. Radio was a way for a person, or group of people, to use new technology to radiate their ideas. It's in that spirit we named the product Radio. It's a perfect tool for expressing and organizing ideas, plans, project notes, presentations, writing, and reports; and it's got built-in features that make it totally simple to communicate your work. So Radio is the perfect name.

As it goes forward, Radio will hook into more communication channels, we believe it will actually define new channels, because never before has there been an easy to use tool that was so good at communicating.

[I'm really getting into Radio in a big way and I thought it was worth reposting this item]

Just started playing with BackFlip (mentioned in http://radio.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$14982?mode=topic&;y=2002&m=5&d=23) and it looks very cool.

It's basically an online bookmarking service.  You add a button to your browser tool bar which you click when you want to grab a page.  You can then describe and categorize the page in your BackFlip directory (kind of like your own Yahoo directory).

BackFlip allows you to create a "daily routine" for pages you want to visit every day (which I have made my home page now) as well as showing you your favourite and newest bookmarks.

Then you can start sharing.  You can exchange bookmarks with other users and, based on aggregate anonymous data, BackFlip can start recommending other shared bookmarks based on your own browsing preferences.

If I have complaints they are that:

• the site is a little bit slow in fully rendering its pages
• the tools for managing links could be better

The form is understandable since BackFlip is without corporate funding and run by a committed group who believe in the service.  The latter is fixable with a bit of Java or JavaScript.

Powerful stuff.