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Meet The People You Follow On Twitter With Conference Directory Lanyrd (YC W11)

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Re: Meet The People You Follow On Twitter With Conference Directory Lanyrd (YC W11)

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Post by Tichy » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 11:29 PM UTC

kmort wrote: post #28

Tichy wrote: post #26

Any ideas how to memorize that name? Does it have a meaning I don't get (non-native speaker)?

It's a "Web 2.0"-style dropped-vowel spelling of "lanyard". (Lanyards being commonly used at conferences to hold ID cards.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanyard

Thanks - lanyard was a word I didn't know yet.

Re: Meet The People You Follow On Twitter With Conference Directory Lanyrd (YC W11)

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Post by tesseract » Tue, Feb 01, 2011, 8:11 AM UTC

kmort wrote: post #28

Tichy wrote: post #26

Any ideas how to memorize that name? Does it have a meaning I don't get (non-native speaker)?

It's a "Web 2.0"-style dropped-vowel spelling of "lanyard". (Lanyards being commonly used at conferences to hold ID cards.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanyard

Any plans for some kind of barcodes-on-nametags feature that could be called "scanyrd"? ;)

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