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An installation-art company called META (or Meta.is) is suing Meta (or meta.com)

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Re: An installation-art company called META (or Meta.is) is suing Meta (or meta.com)

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Post by rococode »

jrockway wrote: post #20
zeroonetwothree wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doubtful

Yeah, I don't think these holding companies mean much to people inside or outside the company. No random person on the street knows what Alphabet or Meta is, they know Google and Facebook. I certainly don't put "Alphabet" on my resume. I worked there and I don't even know what it meant exactly.

There's a difference, though.

Meta is a renaming. There is no "Facebook" company anymore. It's all Meta. Meta has a product named "Facebook", not a company named "Facebook".

Alphabet is a holding company. "Google" still exists as a standalone company, it's just owned by Alphabet.

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Post by metadat »

kjsingh wrote: post #17

What if meta.is decides it needs no money and asks FB (I mean meta.com) to do a re-branding :D

It would be awesome, though [sadly] such events in a high-profile context are exceedingly rare in capitalism.

Maybe FB could pivot to MetastasiXed, would be a more suitable name for the stage FB and Zuck have reached.

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Post by sorry_outta_gas »

t_mann wrote: post #19
whoibrar wrote: post #4

I also occassionally mourn the death of the word Meta, It was such a beautiful and succinct word. Meta means about the thing itself. It's seeing the thing from a higher perspective instead of from within the thing, like being self-aware. Not to forget the words like Metadata, Meta-physics, Meta-analysis, Metameme. Long live Meta[adjective].

The word Alphabet didn't go away when Google renamed their parent company, and I'm confident that the word meta will also prove stronger than its SV appropriation.

'Meta' is being used for their branding 'Meta Quest 2' Alphabet isn't really used in that fashion

either way they should go with 'Metaspace' or 'Fluppy pups International' since everyone loves puppies

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Post by martyvis »

jrockway wrote: post #20
zeroonetwothree wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doubtful

Yeah, I don't think these holding companies mean much to people inside or outside the company. No random person on the street knows what Alphabet or Meta is, they know Google and Facebook. I certainly don't put "Alphabet" on my resume. I worked there and I don't even know what it meant exactly.

I'm not sure about that. Whenever our public TV or radio station, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, makes reference to Google or Facebook in a corporate sense they always clearly mention the parent company.

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Post by actuator »

sorry_outta_gas wrote: post #23
t_mann wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The word Alphabet didn't go away when Google renamed their parent company, and I'm confident that the word meta will also prove stronger than its SV appropriation.

'Meta' is being used for their branding 'Meta Quest 2' Alphabet isn't really used in that fashion either way they should go with 'Metaspace' or 'Fluppy pups International' since everyone loves puppies

Extremely stupid decision to rename it. Out of all their products only Oculus has overwhelmingly positive brand name, I don't know why they will want to change that. Would make more sense to build stuff around the Oculus name.

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Post by xoa »

jonah wrote: post #8

Back in the day I worked at MetaCreations née MetaTools[0]. We had a web browser plugin that rendered streaming, progressive, interactive 3D - well before WebGL et. al. It shipped with IE and was available for other browsers as well. The MetaStream logo[1][2][3] was surprisingly similar to the Meta one. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaCreations [1] It was surprisingly hard to find a copy of the logo on image se…

There's a fun blast from the past! InfiniD was my first serious 3D graphics software package when I did that for a while way back when on the Mac. I'm trying to remember how I even discovered that one, I vaguely recall Ambrosia Software used it for creating the sprites in Escape Velocity? I think one of my first personal learning projects was using it to make my own ships and plug-ins for EV (all done by hand with ResEdit) which felt pretty neat at the time. Thanks for your part in what MetaCreations did back then, what a wild time that was.

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Post by reaperducer »

DEveritt wrote: post #15

There's loads of companies out there with extremely similar names. It's hard to come up with something totally unique. I believe, legally, it just can't be identical to a name already registered in the same state. When I was trying to name my own business, it was amazing to see how many names were already taken just in my state. Not that it makes it right for Meta/Facebook to do whatever they want but any rebranding…

When I was trying to name my own business, it was amazing to see how many names were already taken just in my state.

It's slightly more complicated than that.

It has to be a name that hasn't already been registered to cover one of the pre-existing business categories for your state.

And, it also has to be a name that isn't registered nationally to cover one of the federal pre-existing business categories.

It's possible, and very common, to register a trademark within a single state only. I've done it about a half-dozen times in two state. You do it if you have a product or service that you never expect to go national.

It's how you can have multiple unrelated "#1 Quick Mart" and "Danny's Cleaners" in different parts of the nation.

However, in this case, the complainant is in Iceland, so the American rules you and I know don't apply.

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Post by coding123 »

whoibrar wrote: post #4

I also occassionally mourn the death of the word Meta, It was such a beautiful and succinct word. Meta means about the thing itself. It's seeing the thing from a higher perspective instead of from within the thing, like being self-aware. Not to forget the words like Metadata, Meta-physics, Meta-analysis, Metameme. Long live Meta[adjective].

It's perfect name for Facebook because now when we hear stories of "FBI Data collection was just the Meta Data" it will mean everything about you, your friends, your call voice data, pictures of your genitals and everything else!

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Post by wutbrodo »

actuator wrote: post #26
sorry_outta_gas wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

'Meta' is being used for their branding 'Meta Quest 2' Alphabet isn't really used in that fashion either way they should go with 'Metaspace' or 'Fluppy pups International' since everyone loves puppies

Extremely stupid decision to rename it. Out of all their products only Oculus has overwhelmingly positive brand name, I don't know why they will want to change that. Would make more sense to build stuff around the Oculus name.

Whatsapp is overwhelmingly popular, no? I'd guess much more so than Oculus.

And anecdotally, IG users seem to feel very positively about it in a way that isn't true for fb or Twitter users. Most of the handwringing about IG that I've seen comes from commentators

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