Ah yeah - I've been bummed that people now think https://metacademy.org/ is about meta.
An installation-art company called META (or Meta.is) is suing Meta (or meta.com)
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#32What 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.
They could just rename to "FB, Inc". FBI for short.
That won't cause any confusion.
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#33While I am not a fan of Facebook/Meta, I actually hope that they do not lose this case. If you want to name your company after a word that is in common usage, then you should have to deal with the fact that others may use the same word for their own purposes. JP Morgan seems like a name that hardly limits anyone trying to name their company. Apple or Meta are just words in common usage.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
IG is popular among its users and doesn't have the same image as FB has but it also has been in news for reports on body dysmorphia, depression etc
You are right about WhatsApp though, it aslo largely has a very positive image till now
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#35Earlier 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
I think a more apt example is Oracle, which is used in a lot of their branding.
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#36I 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].
Weird how name/brand recognition works. Facebook the company rebranding had zero impact/change on me. I think of their properties first and the name of the parent company never. It doesn't really matter.
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#37Back 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…
I worked in a lab four years ago, where Kai (the designer of MetaTools) was an investor, but it didn't work out as although the tech was impressive and cool, it lacked the other components that are needed for a startup. They are still operating and building stuff in Edinburgh [0]. Sadly, they didn't release anything yet.
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#38While I am not a fan of Facebook/Meta, I actually hope that they do not lose this case. If you want to name your company after a word that is in common usage, then you should have to deal with the fact that others may use the same word for their own purposes. JP Morgan seems like a name that hardly limits anyone trying to name their company. Apple or Meta are just words in common usage.
Since it is such a common and useful word, I hope Facebook looses this case, as I would find it sad if that word is associated with their company by most people for the foreseeable future.
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#39While I am not a fan of Facebook/Meta, I actually hope that they do not lose this case. If you want to name your company after a word that is in common usage, then you should have to deal with the fact that others may use the same word for their own purposes. JP Morgan seems like a name that hardly limits anyone trying to name their company. Apple or Meta are just words in common usage.
Apple Computer still paid $80,000 to Apple Corps [1] even though it was 2 decades before they entered the music space. I don't think apple is a good example for your point.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer#1...
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#40While I am not a fan of Facebook/Meta, I actually hope that they do not lose this case. If you want to name your company after a word that is in common usage, then you should have to deal with the fact that others may use the same word for their own purposes. JP Morgan seems like a name that hardly limits anyone trying to name their company. Apple or Meta are just words in common usage.
There was a spat between Domino's Pizza and Domino Sugar. For a while, Domino's Pizza had to use their full name, not just "Domino's", in advertising and even when they answered the phone. That seems to have changed, so maybe some new agreement was reached.