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October 04, 2006

Xing is not Crossing

Well, that didn't take long. Only a few days after I wrote about OpenBC morphing into Xing - and in particular hoping they wouldn't drown in the current Web 2.0 hype - I read about the company on Valleywag. Seems as though they co-threw a party in San Francisco and talked about world-domination (already). Check out how the US Web 2.0 crowd thought the name should be pronounced.

Xing's founder gave a microspeech for the guests. When he said his company's name ("Zing"), a few in the audience whispered, "I thought it was 'Crossing.'"

Posted by Matthew at October 4, 2006 10:38 AM

Comments

I guess they've never heard of the ill-fated previous owners of that name:

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

I always that *that* company's name was pronouncing "X-ing", as in the US highway markings indicating a crossing.

Posted by: Justin Mason at October 6, 2006 02:02 PM