Posted in Bad Names, Descriptive Names, Metaphor, Names, Pun Names, Real Word Names, Startup Names, Web App Names on September 19th, 2007 4 Comments »
Of the name Utterz, with special reference in the final paragraph to movies of the late 1990s.
Sometimes The Name Inspector must respond swiftly to the cries of an innocent web surfer in distress. The listenerd has issued a plea for help with the name Utterz, for a mobile blogging platform. With Utterz you can […]
Posted in Blend Names, Company Names, Names, Naming, Pun Names, Real Word Names, Web App Names on August 30th, 2007 6 Comments »
Last week John Cook at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer asked:
What is it with the word ‘dango’ and internet companies?.
Of course, there’s the online movie site Fandango. And then there’s Portland’s Jobdango and Seattle’s Zoodango.
Now, a former Microsoft project manager is rolling out a new site called GodDango, which he hopes will become a central gathering spot […]
Posted in Bad Names, Company Names, Metaphor, Pun Names, Web App Names on June 27th, 2007 4 Comments »
Phil Butler over at ReadWriteWeb has written a post about a new online music service called Fairtilizer. Oh dear. The Name Inspector doesn’t even know where to begin.
This name is presumably a pun: the first syllable of the word fertilizer has been changed to the similar-sounding word fair. Or maybe the word air has been […]
