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Mobiguous company names
A friend recently told me about yet another mobile startup who I won’t name, but suffice to say has yet another one of those generic amalgams of “Mo” or “Mob” with some other word. It got me thinking “hey, I can automate this; maybe save everyone some time”….which I did (at least the first part). Applying my proprietary formula to the not-exactly-exhaustive-but-close-enough word list that comes with in most UNIX-y systems, I came up with a list from which investors, domain squatters, and edgy industry soothsayers can all pull from to define the vocabulary of the 21st Century. Particular favorites of mine include “Mobarrassing”, “Mobgoblin”, “Mocabre”, and “Mosogyny”. Definitions for “mobnobbing”, “mocialite”, “mocreation”, “mobauchery” and “mobsidize” practically write themselves, and it’s only a matter of time before some hack tech columnist uses one/all of these words with a straight face (or whatever face they make when they write that stuff) More after the fold…
Here’s the full list as my script spit it out. I have to confess that if I was starting a mobile related company, I actually saw two or three names that look credible at first glance, but I steadfastly refuse to point out which ones they are. Here’s the haystack, find your needle: