Archive for November, 2007

(Re)naming stories: ZenZui -> Zumobi

Posted in Blend Names, Company Names, Descriptive Names, Name Changes, Names, Naming, Naming Stories, News, Startup Names on November 30th, 2007 5 Comments »

The Seattle-based mobile platform company ZenZui recently changed its name to Zumobi, in preparation for a beta release in December. The name ZenZui was based on the word zen plus the acronym zui, which stands for ‘Zooming User Interface’. That’s the technology, developed at Microsoft Research, that Zumobi claims will take the pain out of [...]

Unglamorous metaphors: Twine

Posted in Good Names, Metaphor, Names, Real Word Names, Startup Names, Web App Names on November 7th, 2007 4 Comments »

Clearly The Name Inspector has not been participating in NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month). He’s been working on a secret project. But now he plans to up the posting rate a bit. Radar Networks recently introduced their first Semantic Web application: Twine. In a presentation at the Web 2.0 Summit, Radar Networks founder and CEO [...]