Comments on: Naming Your Web Product http://mikepk.com/2009/12/naming-your-web-product/ Web Tech, Programming, Boston Startups, Entrepreneurship and Random Musings Fri, 06 Aug 2010 05:50:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: mikepk http://mikepk.com/2009/12/naming-your-web-product/comment-page-1/#comment-164 mikepk Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:01:54 +0000 http://mikepk.com/?p=457#comment-164 Sp Sp

]]> By: tommorris http://mikepk.com/2009/12/naming-your-web-product/comment-page-1/#comment-154 tommorris Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:34:22 +0000 http://mikepk.com/?p=457#comment-154 Technology-wise: very few. I'm playing around with Scala a lot. Teaching HTML, Ruby, Rails and Java. Organising BarCamps. Mostly trying to find the money to pay my way through a Ph.D.<br><br>The project I was trying to name is a podcast. But I'm not sure about it yet.<br><br>Glad to see you working on a new project though. Technology-wise: very few. I'm playing around with Scala a lot. Teaching HTML, Ruby, Rails and Java. Organising BarCamps. Mostly trying to find the money to pay my way through a Ph.D.

The project I was trying to name is a podcast. But I'm not sure about it yet.

Glad to see you working on a new project though.

]]> By: mikepk http://mikepk.com/2009/12/naming-your-web-product/comment-page-1/#comment-153 mikepk Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:14:34 +0000 http://mikepk.com/?p=457#comment-153 Thanks Tom, the more techniques / resources, the better! I'd be curious what projects your working on lately ;) Thanks Tom, the more techniques / resources, the better! I'd be curious what projects your working on lately ;)

]]> By: tommorris http://mikepk.com/2009/12/naming-your-web-product/comment-page-1/#comment-152 tommorris Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:37:15 +0000 http://mikepk.com/?p=457#comment-152 Mike, I'd suggest Roget's over <a href="http://thesaurus.com" rel="nofollow">thesaurus.com</a> - <a href="http://thesaurus.com" rel="nofollow">thesaurus.com</a> is good, but there's just more of Roget's. And if you are on a Mac, use the Thesaurus in Dictionary.app, which isn't as good as Roget's but better than <a href="http://thesaurus.com" rel="nofollow">thesaurus.com</a>. Also, for naming, Greek and Latin roots are fantastic depending on the audience. And all the usual techniques of wordplay: metonymy/synecdoche, metalepsis, crossword clues (especially cryptic ones) etc.<br><br>I was coming up with names for a project today, and I tend to find that Google, Wikipedia, whois and Twitter (to check username availability) are most of what I need. Mike, I'd suggest Roget's over thesaurus.com – thesaurus.com is good, but there's just more of Roget's. And if you are on a Mac, use the Thesaurus in Dictionary.app, which isn't as good as Roget's but better than thesaurus.com. Also, for naming, Greek and Latin roots are fantastic depending on the audience. And all the usual techniques of wordplay: metonymy/synecdoche, metalepsis, crossword clues (especially cryptic ones) etc.

I was coming up with names for a project today, and I tend to find that Google, Wikipedia, whois and Twitter (to check username availability) are most of what I need.

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