The Name Inspector » Links http://www.thenameinspector.com Tells you what makes names tick. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:17:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Naming 101 for Seattle 2.0 http://www.thenameinspector.com/naming-101/ http://www.thenameinspector.com/naming-101/#comments Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:08:13 +0000 The Name Inspector http://www.thenameinspector.com/naming-101/ Marcelo Calbucci, founder and CTO of Sampa, invited The Name Inspector to do a guest post for his Seattle 2.0 blog. The post is up. It’s a brief and basic naming primer for entrepreneurs. Readers of this blog, connoisseurs that you are, may find the material a bit elementary, but just in case you want to check it out…

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]]> http://www.thenameinspector.com/naming-101/feed/ 0 Worst web app names http://www.thenameinspector.com/worst-web-app-names/ http://www.thenameinspector.com/worst-web-app-names/#comments Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:54:56 +0000 The Name Inspector http://www.thenameinspector.com/worst-web-app-names/ Richard MacManus at Read/WriteWeb has posted a great list of the 10 worst web app names. The comment section, just as great, shows that those ten have a lot of competition.

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]]> http://www.thenameinspector.com/worst-web-app-names/feed/ 1 The Name Inspector as a graph http://www.thenameinspector.com/the-name-inspector-as-a-graph/ http://www.thenameinspector.com/the-name-inspector-as-a-graph/#comments Tue, 08 May 2007 21:02:35 +0000 The Name Inspector http://www.thenameinspector.com/the-name-inspector-as-a-graph/ This has nothing to do with naming, but it’s gorgeous: The Name Inspector website depicted as a graph, created by Sala’s app. Thanks to swissmiss for the tip.

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]]> http://www.thenameinspector.com/the-name-inspector-as-a-graph/feed/ 0 BusinessWeek on new words http://www.thenameinspector.com/businessweek-on-new-words/ http://www.thenameinspector.com/businessweek-on-new-words/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:05:06 +0000 The Name Inspector http://www.thenameinspector.com/businessweek-on-new-words/ Catherine Holahan at BusinessWeek.com has written a nice, though brief, article about the trouble lexicographers have keeping up with all the new words that are being rapidly created and disseminated on the web (e.g. wiki, google, vlog, mash-up). Lexicographers have not traditionally allowed new words into their dictionaries until those words show evidence of consistent and sustained written use. Now that everyone’s writing on the web, the criteria for inclusion are much harder to define and apply. Though this story is not specifically about names, it discusses word-coining strategies relevant to naming, and mentions some words that have been derived from trademarks. It’s worth a look.

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