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

Re:Meet The People You Follow On Twitter With Conference Dir... by Tichy on Monday January 31, 2011 @04:54PM (#2163356)

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

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Meet The People You Follow On Twitter With Conference Dir... by kmort on Monday January 31, 2011 @05:25PM (#2163449)

It's a "Web 2.0"-style dropped-vowel spelling of "lanyard". (Lanyards being commonly used at conferences to hold ID cards.)

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Meet The People You Follow On Twitter With Conference Dir... by Tichy on Monday January 31, 2011 @06:29PM (#2163665)

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

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Meet The People You Follow On Twitter With Conference Dir... by tesseract on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @03:11AM (#2164860)

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

[ Parent | on HN ]