Darwinian Web
Adam Green's thoughts on the evolution of the Internet

Posts tagged as: names

What are we doing to our language?

Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2005 at 9:30 AM (permalink)

I'm afraid Yellowiki is a name that may stick. Damn, I wish I could come up with names like that. ( via Richard MacManus)

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Now I know where these product names come from

Posted on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 9:44 PM (permalink)

Product names have always been a mystery to me. I thought Yahoo! and Google were absurd, but that was before Web 2.0 names like Zimbra and Ning appeared. Om Malik has discovered the source of these names: Andrew Wooldrige's Web 2.0 name and business plan generator. I used it to create my next startup, Squioliki: web-based auctions via Ruby on Rails.