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The makers of these 10 tech products – the iPod, BlackBerry, Firefox, Twitter, Windows 7, ThinkPad, Android, Wikipedia, Mac OS X and the “Big Cats,” and Red Hat Linux – all have displayed certain amounts marketing savvy, common sense and fun-loving spirit in settling on their products’ names. Here are the intriguing, surprising and sometimes predictable accounts of their creation.

There are some interesting stories in that article, but I also learned a new word:

Portmanteau – Taking two words and combining them into one, ie Wikipedia.

And the article also mentions that red in Western history is “the symbol of liberation and challenge of authority.”  Considering red is the color of the GOP, and that makes for an interesting concept.

TweetPsych uses two linguistic analysis algorithms (RID and LIWC) to build a psychological profile of a person based on the content of their tweets. The service analyzes your last 1000 tweets and works best on users who have posted more than 1000 updates.

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I enjoy reading tweets more than I do posting them, so results probably aren’t that great, but they are below in case you are interested.