• Web 2.0

    Naming the babies: Name your startup after a Finn

    By ndouglas, 7:52 PM on Fri Apr 28 2006, 441 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

    tag cloud - ValleywagAfter he met some Finns, SuperHappyDevHouse organizer David Weekly pointed out to me that Finnish names are "very Web 2.0." It's true! The list of Finnish names (with pronunciations!) is a goldmine of Web 2.0 monikers and an invaluable resource for any startup. After all, Web 2.0 sites like Riya are already banking on the cuteness of a first name, and Ikea's been naming its furniture after Swedish locations for years.

    Each Finnish name cries to be attached to a certain sort of Web 2.0 startup. So try these names, with the recommended services they could define:

    Tytti: Social porn
    Miika: Web-based enterprise software
    Per: Peer-to-peer micro-loans
    Jali: Social bookmarking. In pink
    Yrjö: Distributed gossip tracker
    Riku: Community blog
    Saari: Outsourced customer service
    Atso: MMORPG currency market
    Daavid: Some kind of Yahoo Maps mashup

    Finnish names [saunalahti.fi]

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