{"id":121,"date":"2004-03-24T16:26:43","date_gmt":"2004-03-24T23:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/24\/lamester\/"},"modified":"2004-03-24T16:26:43","modified_gmt":"2004-03-24T23:26:43","slug":"lamester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/24\/lamester\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamester"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m really getting tired of all these sites that insist on adding ‘ster’ to the end of their names. First there was Napster<\/A>, then AIMster<\/A>, then Feedster<\/A>, and now Eurekster<\/A>, 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.<\/p>\n

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<\/A> was started today, would it be called Yahooster?<\/p>\n

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

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 …<\/p>\n

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