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Hot for words
Marina and is a 26 year old philologist. What’s philologist mean? Watch her video, she does a good job explaining what it means and its origin. Actually, she has a YouTube channel in which she describes the origin of various words. Her channel is aptly named Hot for Words.
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Naming Tips
Need some good tips on naming? Then check out Steve Rivkin’s free 33 Tips & Tactics for Generating Names (scroll to bottom of page for order information).
Tip number five gives us trademark attorneys the warm and fuzzies : )
5. Go for Quantity
Don’t fall in love with a short list of three or four possible names.
Develop lots [...]
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Two great recent posts over at the Name Wire
Strategic Name Development’s Name Wire: The Product Naming Blog has two great posts. Heck, all of their posts are great. As an aside, while I have had a link to them on my old blog, I neglected to put them in Google Reader. And thus, was not as regular a reader as [...]
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It’s likely that a cease and desist caused OpVista to rebrand AnyWave
OpVista recently announced that it is rebranding (had to?) its AnyWave Optical Networking Platform to nWave.
OpVista is making this move to proactively avoid any potential dispute with Vanu, Inc.’s use of the “AnyWave” terminology.
Vanu owns the registered mark AnyWave for “computer software for use in operating wireless telecommunications systems.
AFTERTHOUGHT: Come to think of it, [...]
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The Name Inspector inspects the name Skype
For all ye namers out there, there’s an excellent blog that goes by the moniker The Name Inspector. This guy really digs into the origin of names, as in this post about Skype. Other excellent posts include this one and this one regarding the ten name types.
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The Naming Process – HARD
Nancy at Away With Words has a great post regarding the New York Times‘ article In a Global Marketplace, Claiming a Name Becomes an Art in Itself. And leave it to a namer to come up with an excellent title to her blog post: It’s Hard Out Here for a Namer. Now, I [...]
Here’s a domain name naming services that sounds pretty cool – Picky Domains