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Web 2.0 Company Name Generator. I talked to a company recently who had actually used this to come up with a name for one of their products.

Posted 26th January 2007 at 6:38 pm

Tagged funny, web2

3 comments

I made a shell script some time last year that also generated Web 2.0 company names, albeit with a somewhat different result in mind.

#!/bin/sh
# Names for your brand new web company
cat /usr/share/dict/* | egrep "*er$" | sed "s/er$/r.com/g" \
    | sed "s/ /-/g" | tr A-Z a-z | sort | uniq

An excerpt of the output:

...
buxomr.com
buyr.com
buzzr.com
bystandr.com
cabinetmakr.com
cadavr.com
...

Lenny - 26th January 2007 22:03 - #

There are some odd web2.0-ish words in the OS X words file:

$ grep -i '[^aeioruy]r$' /usr/share/dict/words
Askr
buhr
copr
Duhr
Folkvangr
Glathsheimr
guhr
jodelr
kieselguhr
Landwehr
Lavehr
lehr
mohr
Mr
natr
Sadr
sadr
tahr
thulr
Wanderjahr

David Lindquist - 27th January 2007 00:32 - #

tech, technology, computer, software

ragle - 11th June 2007 18:10 - #