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Namestorm

06 Oct 2003 by Jason Fried

Direction, Focused, Manageable, Cover, Forward, Whiteboard, Flexible, Trajectory, Item, Milestone, Adapt, Central, Home, Steer, Grow, Organized, Umbrella, Safe, Project, Seed, Hub, North Star, Launch, Graze, Base, Simplify, Lens, Constellation, Review, Steady, Magnet, Group, Method, Order, Contribute, Direction, Spark, Bright, Track, Path, Spring, Horizon

34 comments so far (Post a Comment)

06 Oct 2003 | Matthew Oliphant said...

What
Are
You
Talking
About
?
:)

06 Oct 2003 | Sarah Hatter said...

"Group Hub."

06 Oct 2003 | Brad Hurley said...

Looking for a new name for Misto?

Anyway, on with namestorming, using associations with the ones above:

Confluence, Intersect, Axis, Sextant, Polaris, Central Station, Zoom, Orion, Gravity, Way, Magnitude, Compass, Light, Sentier (French for path), Source, Achieve, EndPoint, Motion, Flex

06 Oct 2003 | JF said...

BTW: Has anyone had any luck with sites like SnapNames to try to get a domain the second it expires?

06 Oct 2003 | Mike said...

How about Plan & Manager? ;) ;)

I just went through the exact same process with my project, and found some interesting things listed in the USPTO government site.

I didn't realize that there are so many types of trademarks. Fidelity currently has a trademark on their PlanManager program, however after checking through the U.S. Trademark database, they only have a trademark on the stylized logo they use for "PlanManager", not not the actual phrase itself. I imagine (if you're thinking about legal protection of your name) that looking through the Trademark database to find some loopholes would be worthwhile.

I personally like the word "umbrella" myself.

Mike

06 Oct 2003 | Ben said...

You mean Misto, The Gourmet Olive Oil Sprayer?

06 Oct 2003 | Eccentric Gardener said...

"... Steer, ... Grow, ... Seed, ... Graze..."

Bull, Pasture, Corn, Slaughter...

No?


06 Oct 2003 | kev said...

37HyperGlobalCompuMegaMisto

07 Oct 2003 | Scrivs said...

Perpetual
Motion
Baseline

07 Oct 2003 | Mark Fusco said...

Where's that Nametron 3000 when you need it?

07 Oct 2003 | ~bc said...

Isn't Contribute kinda taken at the moment, by something else related to your industry? How about "ClearTrack" or "Guide"? Of course, it'd help if I knew a little more about what I was naming.


07 Oct 2003 | Mark Fusco said...

It kinda sounds - from the keywords you've provided - that Misto (if that's what you're tryng to name) is software related to developing a process or process engineering.

In school, the way I remembered the SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) was through the acronym "PADIM"

- Plan
- Analyse
- Design
- Implement
- Maintain

Maybe you can go that route in naming your program.

07 Oct 2003 | JF said...

I already have the name for what I'm trying to name. I'm just looking for someone to talk me out of it.

07 Oct 2003 | kev said...

here's something: where I last worked, we had an ill-fated (because the president was/is an idiot) project called 'ClearScope.'

My wife looked at it one day and said 'Is that a pregnancy test? because that's what it sounds like.'

So there. Don't name it something dumb like that or there'll be way too much to read into the name.

07 Oct 2003 | kev said...

actually, scratch that. it was called ClearMethod (even worse).

07 Oct 2003 | Brad Hurley said...

I think there should be software called Narcoleptica, which puts your laptop to sleep between every keystroke.

Also, I'd love to see a product called Gruntle. You always hear about people being disgruntled, but I've never met anyone who said, "hey, I'm having a great day, I feel really gruntled."

07 Oct 2003 | Matthew Oliphant said...

On the same line as Brad's (staying "Brad," Brad?), we always throw vaganzas at our house. Too poor to have extravaganzas.

Trace, Aurora, Spoon!, Cast, Scale, Quality, Risk;), "Think there is no box.", Iterate, Solve, Isis, Scope, WildGrass, Lilac, Memory, Root, Thaw, Connect, Produce, Deliver...

OMG, you are making an application-version of the Farmers Almanac!

07 Oct 2003 | Don Schenck said...

I worked at a paper mill where I set up shop floor real-time data collection. It dumped the data into a Statistical Quality Managment program called "Murphy".

Great program, HORRIBLE name. Imagine every time something went amiss ... "Murphy's law" ...

08 Oct 2003 | John said...

Try this great list of key words.

Ackack.

09 Oct 2003 | Graham Hicks said...

I actually like Non-Sequitur names like Egg, Amazon and Danger. They can create an impression without trying to explain everything in one word. They always seem to evoke a little more feeling than just making up your own word (maybe that feeling is confusion, I don't know).

09 Oct 2003 | lt said...

what about clementine... or pinkus?

09 Oct 2003 | Peach said...

what about clementine... or pinkus?

Already taken by these two little tadpoles looking to do some breaking and entering.

17 Oct 2003 | Don Schenck said...

Spyder!

19 Oct 2003 | Ted W. said...

www.00000-online-casino.com? I guess everything really is taken...

05 Dec 2003 | Penis Guy said...

Group hub everyone !

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