Qwerky

Would You Give Your First Born To Name Websites Like These?

Some qwerky suggestions for webapps. A bit on the cynical side. I’m sure you can guess which webapps these ones are parodying.
Social Networking

Hi5-O
ClinkedIn

News

Rigg

School

KeggsList
Faithbook

Entertainment and Sports

FumbleUpon
Speedoo

Consumer Reviews

GrumbleUpon
Ask Questions

Social Bookmarking

Blanklist

Love and Dating

StagNation

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Mapping Web 2.0

The serious one shows color-coded regions where the given social networks are popular. I don’t think LiveJournal is comparable to MySpace, but just look at that! Curiously, there’s not one website that dominates equally across continents. According to the article, Hi5 is the most diverse.
The funny one depicts the popular places on the web both […]

Top 10 Worst Web App Names

Read/WriteWeb has posted a list of the 10 Worst Web App Names.
I don’t particularly with every single one of the ten, but makes for a good laugh.

Google, DoubleClick, $3.1 Billion.

Guess which bought which. Easy.

Qwerky Redesign!

Here’s a new look for Qwerky after more than a year of blogging about weird Web 2.0 names. Come to think of it, I didn’t exactly celebrate this blog’s first anniversary (which is January 14th), unlike what I did with Stellify.net.
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