Seattle 2.0 says The Name Inspector is one of the most influential entrepreneur-bloggers of Seattle. Number 4, to be exact. That’s right, The fourth most influential entrepreneur-blogger in Seattle! The Name Inspector can already feel the power working its way to his extremities. Marcelo Calbucci, the brains behind Seattle 2.0, said in his notification email [...]

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 [...]

Somehow The Name Inspector has taken over the top blog spot on Technorati, beating out Engadget, Boing Boing, and all the other usual suspects. And with an authority rating of only 170. OK, so this is some kind of bug on Technorati. But The Name Inspector finds it pretty amusing. [tags]technorati, top blog, top blogs, [...]

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 [...]

James Callan over at Seattlest has posted an interview with The Name Inspector-or rather, with the fellow behind The Name Inspector. [tags]seattlest, seattle, jamescallan, james callan, the name inspector, thenameinspector, interview[/tags]

Some of you have sent email or left comments asking for advice about how to name your company. The Name Inspector hopes you understand that it takes work to come up with good suggestions, and it’s not really sensible for him to do that work for free because his time is scarce and there are [...]

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 [...]