namesake

Zynga, the social gaming company recently filed to go public and raise a whopping $1 billion in its initial public offering.

The folks from Namesake have put together a graphic that tells the story of Zynga, the people behind the company and how it got here.

Developer.com: "The open source Eclipse Foundation is known for its namesake Eclipse IDE and its related ecosystem of projects and plugins, most of which are desktop based."

Adobe released the public betas of its namesake Flash Player 10.1 and its next-generation Adobe Integrated Runtime, dubbed AIR 2.

Information Week: "On Tuesday afternoon I spoke with Ivanka Majic, leader of Canonical's design team for Ubuntu Desktop and Netbook Remix.

She's spearheading the effort to make Ubuntu that much more appealing and useful -- to make it more of its "Linux for human beings" namesake."