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By: Living by the Numbers: What Happens When You Quantify Everything?

Living by the Numbers: What Happens When You Quantify Everything? — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:01:16 +0000

[...] a previous post by Dawn Foster, I also signed up for DailyBurn to track my nutritional intake as well as my exercise. Its food [...]

By: Sam Brown

Sam Brown — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:14:32 +0000

Yrs! Great name article! :)

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How important is a good name? | Locomotion — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:49:47 +0000

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By: Eligiendo el nombre adecuado para tu dominio « Blog de Luis Mondragón

Eligiendo el nombre adecuado para tu dominio « Blog de Luis Mondragón — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:21:50 +0000

[...] Dawn Foster de WebWorkerDaily ofrece una lista de cosas a tener en cuenta a la hora de elegir un nom… [...]

By: Catherine Cantieri, Sorted

Catherine Cantieri, Sorted — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:33:09 +0000

Oh, I hear you. I couldn’t get sorted.com or sorted.net, but I figured get-sorted would work okay. Not so much. Thus far, everyone seems to think the company name is Get Sorted, which is pretty frustrating. But at least it still gives you an idea of what I do, so I guess I should be grateful for that. :-)

By: WIll Brocklebank

WIll Brocklebank — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:24:26 +0000

The first company I started was a meeting place for creatives in the media industries and had a working title of encoreFORUM – which was atrocious… people on the phone would say “on-call forum?” and think we were either a help-site for medics or hookers.

So we changed the name… to Artism – which didn’t turn out to be much better as people usually leapt to autism and we were off on the wrong foot from the start!

By: stephenrb123

stephenrb123 — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:03:23 +0000

Hi Dawn,

This is Stephen Blankenship, co-founder of DailyBurn. Nice article, and thanks for using us as the example. From my experience, your first bullet is the most painful – almost all the domain names are taken! We cumulatively spent probably over 100 hours trying to find a domain name everyone liked. There are a handful of good tools that help make the process easier, which could make for an interesting follow-up post… just a though. Thanks!