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Oh I see. I didn't understand until I clicked the link at the top that the different criteria, and thus the images, were not from pg.

I was a bit surprised that Viaweb ended up all green, but it wasn't pg's choice, just yours, correct? :) I disagree on evocability and verbability actually.

One thing with verbability though, is that it's probably hard to predict. I don't think it would have been easy to predict that you could "facebook" someone.



Yeah, that's just me with the colors. I tried to justify my scheme in my own post about naming: http://messymatters.com/nominology

Good point about the trickiness in predicting verbability.

As for the evocativity of "viaweb" I think it seems generic now but at the time it was more novel: conduct your business via the web. Wow!


I just submitted your article to HN at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3180861 -- I think you are too modest! ;)




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