6Sep/090
Silly trendy web-service names
It seems to be a trend these days for web-based-software business to name themselves or their products using the formula [number] [plural noun]. This might have been clever the first time, but has quickly grown tired and hokey. Offending examples include (in ascending order of the leading scalar quantity) 37 Signals, 43 Folders, 99 Designs, 280 Slides.
Of course, the precedent for this scheme was set earlier by a similar vowel-removal scheme, whose progeny share equally hackneyed and silly-sounding names. Offending examples include Flickr, Tumblr, Modernizr, Flattr.
(June 2010) I've also started to pick up on another trend: the suffix "-ify". Offending examples include Spotify, Shopify.
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Twittage
- Just took a 2-hour nap on the boardroom table.
- Likely going to stop reading twitter now that it's broken via RSS. Workaround suggestions welcome. (Hoping that @nnw_Mac will add support!)
- Praise the l0rd; iOS 4.1 finally restores my iPhone 3G to its reasonably-snappy state of old.
- How do I get an RSS feed of the twitter accounts I'm following? Previously using /statuses/friends_timeline.rss but that broke yesterday.
- Words which irritate me: "price point" (just say "price"); "sign off on" (just say "sign"); "viral video" (just say "trendy tripe").