I'm interested in meeting potential clients, collaborators, critics, advisers, and business partners. I'd love some free/cheap short-term co-working space if anyone knows of such a...[more]
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Seattle, Washington 98112
I help people name their companies, products, and services, and I write about names on my blog The Name Inspector. I'm also the founder of Phrasetrain, which applies user-generated natural language technology to web search. Phrasetrain is tiny, so I wear lots of hats: linguist, developer, web/graphic designer, evangelist, etc.
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Great interview in the Seattlest blog this morning, Chris. And I just loooooooove what you said about Biznik! It feels...[more]
Naming is something that happens at the crossroads of intuition and science, and The Name Inspector is the guy standing...[more]
The Name Inspector is usually too busy inspecting names to scold people about other linguistic matters. But in this case he can no longer stand to remain silent. He emailed William Safire about an error that appeared in his column On Language way back in April. He’s been waiting for a public outcry, rowdy demonstrations [...]
Suppose you want to write a computer program to look for unregistered domain names. You could devise a simple algorithm to produce all possible combinations of four letters, five letters, six letters, etc. But that would give you a whole mess of unpronounceable domains, like alsdh.com. So, you might want to strategize a little. You [...]
Until that elusive next name analysis appears, The Name Inspector would like to offer his readers another rare treat: a chance at a free pass to the Biznik-sponsored BizJam indie business conference happening next Wednesday and Thursday in Seattle. Long-time readers, or readers who’ve done some clicking around on this blog, might remember The Name [...]
Seattle, Washington 98112
I'm interested in meeting potential clients, collaborators, critics, advisers, and business partners. I'd love some free/cheap short-term co-working space if anyone knows of such a...[more]