My friends at Circle at Seven launched their new site. Mad skills, that’s all I have to say.
Some beautiful work at crybaby.
NetNews Wire 3.1 is now free. Yippee!
Design is a fantastic javascript bookmarklet. Via Pop Stalin.
For all the javascripters in the house, check out Cody Lindley’s fresh new site javascript Ant.
I just signed up, but I really want my HULU invitation now.
This is pure genius. Make your family into elves.
Get your virtual hosting groove on with VirtualHostX. Only $7, are you kidding me?
February 10, 2008
The Naming ConundrumI’ve been tossing new company names at the wall for the past few weeks hoping that something would stick. I’m looking for a name that better typifies the goings on at Steinruck Design. A few that stuck on my wall fell flat when mentioned to other people. Then a few popular ones ended up being popular enough with other people who already snatched up the domains. Argh! It’s amazing how all consuming this naming process can be. I’ve woken up in the middle of the night thinking about it. Everything I see or think about seems to in some way make me think about names.
So I’m curious, how did you come up with your company name?
When Phil and I were planning on starting a Web design company, we found an online baby-name generator that came up with the strangest names from Latin and other languages. We eventually stumbled upon Quintas, which we thought sounded cool. Unfortunately, there were some issues with people (even us!) remembering the spelling, and we ended up both being hired by other firms fairly quickly, so we let our domain expire, and the company ran aground before it ever really started. I maintain that “Q” is definitely a cool letter to have in the company name, though.
March 14, 2008
Snipplr.com came about during an eight hour road trip. My wife and I were bouncing names back and forth. Initially, Snipplr was a joke making fun of all the stupid Web 2.0 naming conventions. By the end of the trip we realized it had a certain ring to it.
March 03, 2008