I’m really getting tired of all these sites that insist on adding ‘ster’ to the end of their names. First there was Napster, then AIMster, then Feedster, and now Eurekster, a personalized search engine. I’m sure there are many more; those are just what I can think of off the top of my head.

Shawn Fanning at least had a reason for naming his app Napster – it was his nickname. Little did he know that he would invent a whole new suffix. If Yahoo was started today, would it be called Yahooster?

Someday all of these unoriginal names are going to look like all those tech companies ending in ‘tron’ do today – obsolete.

If you’re going to name your company, come up with a name that’s a little more original than taking a common word and slapping ‘ster’ at the end of it. That’s just lamester.