Names, names and more names

I watched a couple of our rocking TV Squad bloggers interview Zach Braff and Sarah Chalke on the set of Scrubs and when Joel Keller told Sarah that he's from TV Squad, I got a little chill. That's my name. I came up with "TV Squad". How cool is that?

And that got me thinking -- complete with a J.D.-style voiceover -- about some of the companies and brands I've named over the years:
and the ones I didn't name:
I'm still trying to get the Emurse guys to switch to "C.V. Wonder". I'm telling you, I know what I'm doing here!

I have at least one more name I came up with that I really love, but I'll have to tell you about it later. I have to catch my flight to SxSW and I'd hate for my Blogsmith team to have another CodeJam without me.

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Eliot (2:57 PM on Thu Mar 8, 2007)

Wait. The devs are here in this Austin place I just arrived in? I'm at the Embassy Suites downtown. I hope to see you soon.

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Peter Rojas (11:50 PM on Thu Mar 8, 2007)

Hey, I always thought that "GearEye" would have been a really good name for Autoblog!

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victor Agreda Jr (10:03 AM on Sat Mar 17, 2007)

I seem to remember having a small hand in naming StyleDash... Yeah, just checked gmail archives-- I suggested Stylash, which you logically morphed into StyleDash.

However, I always marvel at your creativity with names. This from a guy who used to revel in making names for film/tv/book projects. Shakespeare was wrong-- names are very important. At least on the web!

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Brian Alvey (12:53 PM on Sat Mar 17, 2007)

On many of the names like StyleDash, that was definitely the case. Jason would have a name that was near the end zone and I'd take it in for the score. ;-)

Slashfood was another one where I couldn't remember who came up with the name. Judith checked her archives and it was one of our lead bloggers. I could have sworn it was me.

Then I was thinking that at least I did the logo, but that was Mike. My contribution was finding the stock art sliced apple photo.

Fun fun fun.

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