serious bots

One of the premiere selling points for any chiclet of technology is in a particular application's ability to make life a bit easier.

So, when Jim Gates shared a link to Google Wave Extensions on Diigo today, I immediately checked them out, excited at the prospect for a host of new widgets and bots.

But then I looked at the names for the extensions. And if indeed there's something in a name, then almost all of them scream ridiculousness.

It's tough to go around promoting add-ons for any application when their names immediately create equal parts disdain and distance with end-users.

Some of the names are comical, animatedly comical. Behold:

Google Wave and The Seven Extensions:

Skimmy
Raffly
Taggy
Sweepy
Watexy
Emoticony
Othello (this one just wants to grab a pillow and suffocate the other six)

And for the grown-ups:

Polly the Pollster

Now how does one sell that?