Posted in Affixed Names, Blog Names, Compound Names, Descriptive Names, Names on October 17th, 2007 1 Comment »
One of the most popular blogs tracked by Technorati (currently #14) is PostSecret. It’s a “community art project” where people anonymously submit their secrets on postcards, and it’s quite compelling, in an emotionally voyeuristic kind of way. You find all the juicy stuff you’d expect to find: confessions and accusations of infidelity, descriptions of other […]
Posted in Affixed Names, Descriptive Names, Names, Naming, Naming Stories, Startup Names, Web App Names on July 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Last month Rogelio Bernal Andreo shared this naming story with The Name Inspector:
The story of coRank is a bit unusual. Back early last year I was thinking of launching a couple of services and wasn’t sure what name to pick (you know how “easy” is to grab a decent .com these days), so I ended […]
Posted in Affixed Names, Company Names, Good Names, Metaphor, Names, Naming Stories, Real Word Names, Startup Names on April 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
Shelly Farnham and Peter Brown are the co-founders of Waggle Labs, a Seattle software and consulting company that specializes in social technology. Their new product, Pathable, lets participants in social events tag themselves with their interests and personal connections to find other similar participants. Shelly and Peter were kind enough to share a story […]
Posted in Affixed Names, Company Names, Good Names, Names, Naming Stories, Small Names on February 6th, 2007 3 Comments »
What follows is a story from Dan McComb, one of the founders of Biznik, a Seattle-based social network for independent business people. Dan’s story is so well told that it’s quoted in its entirety here.
By the way, the Name Inspector gets a real kick out of the name Biznik, but, as a Biznik member who […]
