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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.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanyard

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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.
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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"? ;)
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