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The 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
by quitit 5y ago
The 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.
- grioghar 5y agoOnce i point it out, people can’t look at the logo the same again. It’s an erect penis, ya’ll.
- tfehring 5y agoReminds me of the classic http://bash.org/?670375 http://bash.org/?670375
- anonymous_i 5y agoFunny... every single time I looked at the arrow , I thought it as the smile of a faceless creature.
- grupthink 5y agoThe name is a double entendre. It also refers to making an "alpha" bet.
- Y_Y 5y agoNo they're referring to their mountaineering tendencies, their "Alp habet".
- hckrnrd 5y agoAs this reorg was Ruth’s Noogler project, she came from the investment banking world where seeking alpha is the name of the game…so making bets to yield alpha is pretty much what the company does.
- mattnewton 5y agoNot sure why you are downvoted, this is straight out of Larry Page’s letter to the public about the restructuring. > We liked the name Alphabet because it means a collection of letters that represent language, one of humanity’s most important innovations, and is the core of how we index with Google search! We also like that it means alpha‑bet (Alpha is investment return above benchmark), which we strive for! I should add that we are not intending for this to be a big consumer brand with related products—the whole point is that Alphabet companies should have independence and develop their own brands. https://abc.xyz/ https://abc.xyz/
- Qub3d 5y agoCompletely off-topic, but in the face of all this corporatism, I still love the fact that the period at the end of the sentence, "Sergey and I are seriously in the business of starting new things. Alphabet will also include our X lab, which incubates new efforts like Wing, our drone delivery effort." is a link to http://hooli.xyz http://hooli.xyz