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Something like "The Meta Company" seems like the most likely bet here. Zuckerberg already owns meta.org through the Chan Zuckerberg Institute, and meta.com was
by rhplus 5y ago
Something like "The Meta Company" seems like the most likely bet here. Zuckerberg already owns meta.org through the Chan Zuckerberg Institute, and meta.com was updated yesterday to redirect to that same site.
https://who.is/whois/meta.com https://who.is/whois/meta.com - updated yesterday
https://who.is/whois/meta.org https://who.is/whois/meta.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_(academic_company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_(academic_company)
- stjohnswarts 5y agoI hope not. I am so tired of that word. It's one of the most overused words in tech, almost to the point of losing its meaning.
- abhiyerra 5y agoYou know I had the domain metafirm.co and someone purchased it from me on the Sedo marketplace after a year of being on the market on Monday. Wondering if you are right.
- lopis 5y agoDefinitely has potential. Whatever it is, I'm very certain it will be a short, common dictionary word, that will poison its general meaning forever, like how Tesla is not Nikola anymore.
- DonHopkins 5y agoOh God, please let it be "VI" or "Tab". Emacs and Spaces FTW!
- aerovistae 5y agoI seriously doubt it will poison the word. When you hear the word alphabet, do you think of Google? These companies are too deeply ingrained in the public consciousness to meaningfully change their name. It's a legal thing, nothing more.
- smolder 5y agoThankfully, context clues let us sort these things out in the vast majority of cases, but there is some small cognitive load there. I do think alphabet being called that poisons the word, in that it creates opportunity for ambiguity. It's another wrinkle in an already messy language that's mutating and forking on multiple fronts. No cap, I'm finna stop alphabet-wannabes yoinkin muh words, it's annoying.
- news_hacker 5y agohijacking the cultural cache of the phrase "that's so meta" - deviously clever and annoying
- deltron3030 5y agoApple bought Meta.io (German AR company) a couple of years ago an may hold some naming rights, getting the brand name could be tough.
- drocer88 5y agoImagine the "metastasis" comments, though.
- pvaldes 5y agoWe are a brand new company now, and want to help the people affected by our former ultra-addictive products so we are proud of introducing you our new and improved social net for women: Meta-donna
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- busymom0 5y ago> Meta That name seems to remind me of Reddit for some reason.
- majjam 5y agoR/highqualitygifs always references meta
- annadane 5y agoOh so it's just like when they had internet.org with their dishonest Free Basics program; a URL that would imply something not belonging to a company so naturally the company buys it to raise importance/awareness of itself
- hardwaregeek 5y agoMan, that's one dystopian name. I'd expect that in some post-apocalyptic tv show.
- schleck8 5y agoIt's also the most startup name ever. A single, short word from the dictionnairy.
- mrkramer 5y agoBut why it would be .org? Isn't .org usually non-profits but Facebook Inc. is all about profit.
- rhplus 5y agoSomeone has pointed meta.com to meta.org
- TheDong 5y agoIf the larger company name is "The Meta Org" or "Meta Organization" or such, then .org would grammatically fit well with the name. The tld splitup of ".com is commercial, .org is non-profits, .co.uk is british websites, .io is indian ocean websites" is pretty much out the window. Only a subset of those still are used consistently, such as ".gov is government-affiliated" and a few ccTLDs like ".cn", ".jp", and ".co.uk" being pretty consistent. Some of them have enforced restrictions (like some european ccTLDs require you to have an address in the country), but many of them don't. .com, .net, and .org are the wild west and might as well mean nothing.
- quitit 5y agoThe interesting thing with that is “facebook” comes across as simple and human-like, despite there being a lot of complexity behind it. Meta is the opposite of this. It sounds robotic, abstract and lacks an emotive trigger. While this is more fitting for the company, it drops the perception-curtain that “facebook” hides behind.
- svachalek 5y agoSeems a lot like the creation of Alphabet. Nothing says faceless conglomerate like deliberately naming your company Alphabet.
- waterhouse 5y agoMy reaction to Alphabet was, "If you wanted to look like supervillains who planned to own everything in the world from A to Z... that would be how you'd do it. Was that intentional? I don't understand what else they might have intended."
- carlmr 5y agoI didn't have that initial reaction, I thought alphabet, because their company Google, needs to dissect a lot of language, the basic building blocks of which is the alphabet.
- cercatrova 5y ago> If you wanted to look like supervillains who planned to own everything in the world from A to Z That would be Amazon, I mean their logo literally has an arrow going from a to z.
- comeonseriously 5y agoThat's not an arrow. Bezos has a penis infatuation.
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- digitalsushi 5y agoAfter Amazon and Alphabet, my money is on Aardvark.
- mananaysiempre 5y agoAnd, earlier, Atari, Activision, Accolade, Acclaim, and Absolute Entertainment (https://allthetropes.org/wiki/The_Problem_with_Licensed_Games https://allthetropes.org/wiki/The_Problem_with_Licensed_Game... ); and the Russian accounting software juggernaut 1C... It’s an old tradition, somewhat forgotten after the decline of phonebooks.
- Fordec 5y agoWasn't that the name of Steve Mann's AR company?
- freddyym 5y agoHoly shit: https://about.facebook.com/meta/ https://about.facebook.com/meta/