What's in a name?

After fumbling with ideas for names like bigbrain, mebrain, livenotes, mobrain, notevelocity, brainja, crunchnote... nothing really stuck. Dan liked one, Josh liked another... domain was taken... Until we found.....

Ubernote.com

From reference.com: "The word über comes from the German language. It is a cognate of both Latin super and Greek ύπερ (hyper), as well as English over (as in "overkill"). During the 2000s, über also became a synonym for super; e.g. übercool = supercool, generally with a slightly intensified meaning. Über is commonly written as uber in English, though with slightly different meaning.

In German online slang it can also be used with the same meaning as the English usages of "uber" by gamers. In this case, it is typically written without the umlaut—despite the ready availability and familiarity of the 'ü' character—in part to distinguish it from its original meaning. Linguistically speaking, it's interesting to note that a language can borrow a loan word that it already loaned out, as long as the meaning has changed sufficiently. In the most cases of this usage, it is borrowed directly as Denglisch, or an English word/phrase that has been fitted adhoc into the German language. In Hindi and other Indian languages, a word from the same origin, 'üper' means 'up' or 'upper'. "

UberNote.com was registered on December 27th, 2006