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A New Name for Stack Overflow (with surprise ending)
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Re: A New Name for Stack Overflow (with surprise ending)
#22I wish more companies would write simple and clear blog post announcements like this one. The transparency is also refreshing given that corpspeak in company communications is making a comeback (see AOL and Yahoo).
You don't need books and consultants on social media marketing, you just need a bit of personality and to treat your audience and community as real people.
(this blog does fail at something I always note here - not having a paragraph bio on the article pages that a lot of people land on, but they have nailed everything else)
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
experts exchange? expertSEXchange dot com edit: wow. Just showing the people who didn't get the reference.
Did you really think there were many of those folks around? The fact that the parent got lots of upvotes, and no follow-up questions, might have been a clue.
Regardless of the actual ratio of people that get it in contrast to those that don't get it, there has to be people that didn't get it and are directly benefited from his 'explanation'. On another point, I immediately knew about what the OP was talking about, but the actual name completely slipped my mind, so I guess I also found the explanation useful. It's right up there with the people that post "clickable links" to a website. It might seem distasteful to some, but hell they are useful in a myriad of situations.
Re: A New Name for Stack Overflow (with surprise ending)
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
experts exchange? expertSEXchange dot com edit: wow. Just showing the people who didn't get the reference.
Did you really think there were many of those folks around? The fact that the parent got lots of upvotes, and no follow-up questions, might have been a clue.
I didn’t know. I very much appreciate people explaining jokes.
Re: A New Name for Stack Overflow (with surprise ending)
#25So, what is the valuation of stack exchange?
My guess: $80mm
Re: A New Name for Stack Overflow (with surprise ending)
#26As cool as naming your site after a class of software bug, I think Stack Exchange is more descriptive of the whole initiative, and it rolls off the tongue more easily. Good move, and keep up the good content (now that Google has woken back up and is indexing them properly!)
Future competitors: Null Pointer, General Failure, Segmentation Fault.
I can't help but feel there'd be something ironic about trying to resolve www.nullpointer.com.
Re: A New Name for Stack Overflow (with surprise ending)
#27The partition of stack exchange into n different sites is sad. Tags should be able to impose order at least in the IT questions. The current situation heightens the artificial boundaries between programmers, users and sys admins.
Re: A New Name for Stack Overflow (with surprise ending)
#28> we want to emphasize the importance of the 45 sites in our network, which has long since stopped being about programmers:
You may want to add an "only" in there.
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#29I'm still seeing no evidence of success or traction beyond the original Stackoverflow.
I'm kinda curious what their burn rate is. I think there are 20 odd employees now, not all of them engineers. That'll consume $2-3 million a year. One hopes they're simply stockpiling cash while valuations are good.
I'm kinda curious what valuation they got. I haven't seen anything about that anywhere.
Re: A New Name for Stack Overflow (with surprise ending)
#30As cool as naming your site after a class of software bug, I think Stack Exchange is more descriptive of the whole initiative, and it rolls off the tongue more easily. Good move, and keep up the good content (now that Google has woken back up and is indexing them properly!)
Future competitors: Null Pointer, General Failure, Segmentation Fault.
I'll be waiting for some variation on ;DROP TABLE