4439

Ok, I haven’t been paying attention - is Zuck saying that Facebook the product is now going to be called Meta? I assumed it was just the company was Meta and Facebook as a social media site is still Facebook.

Edit: No, it appears that my assumption is correct. The company formerly known as “Facebook” is now called “Meta.” The social media site that everyone hates is still called Facebook.

4440

I read what you did, that Meta would be the Alphabet of FB, Instagram, WhatsApp, and whatever else they own. FB will persist, it just won’t be the face of the overall group.

4441

Money Earning Trump Algorithm

4442

That logo! Is it infinity, or maybe VR goggles? Anime Spiderman eyes? Squeee!

I wonder how much they paid for it.

4443

I wondered the same thing about cost. Such a dumb world we live in.

The logo looks like a gamepad to me.

4444

Mutant lungs? Kissing kidney beans?

I bet well over 1 million.

4445

Hooli, I mean Meta, is about people . Meta is about innovative technology that, makes a difference. Transforming the world as we know it. Making the world, a better place, through minimal message oriented transport layers. I firmly believe we can only achieve greatness, if first, we achieve goodness.

edit: and this, in case you haven’t seen it. More relevant and hilarious than ever. http://www.hooli.xyz/

4446

That docucomedy is amazing, I need to rewatch it.

4447

Exhausted testicles leaning on each other for support?

4448

I can’t believe anyone, especially investors, take the idea of Third Life seriously, but here we are; virtual meetings sure sound appealing to someone.
Chris Roberts was a visionary when he came up with virtual prisons after all.

4449

Even in the age of COVID I’d say that 90% of my Zoom meetings with clients are “no cameras please,” not that it is implicitly stated but if I’m trying to sell you something and we start the meeting and you aren’t on video, I’ll usually pop in on video then switch it off immediately. Weird world we’re in, but suggesting someone puts something on their face to look like a cartoon is a couple of bridges too far beyond that. It simultaneously increases the necessary investment in having the system, increases the discomfort of having to be visible, while more or less completely removes any human interaction cues. “Oh, her arm wiggled a bit as it clipped through that plant, I think she wants to invest!”

4450

Furries and companies trying to sell VR hardware. That’s pretty much it. I can only hope that I’m retired before meetings in VR where everyone has a silly cartoon avatar are a thing.

4451

Does second life still exist?

4452

Yep. But no VR, lame.
(more realistically, it’s not corporate oriented, so no investors. This isn’t the 90s)

4453
4454

So can we just say that FB has Meta-stasized?

4455

Some years ago the owner of my company read “The Lean Startup” and took it as gospel (despite the fact we hadn’t been a startup for some 15 years). He made the whole management team read it. I just couldn’t get past that the author’s brilliant lean startup was a chat site for furries. I mean sure, he realized his audience and adapted the product to better serve the audience it had found and that was smart business. But it was a chat site for furries.

4456

Metta World Peace is not amused…

4457

I like how the commentator keeps talking about how disgraceful the Pistons fans were being for throwing bottles. Not the players jumping into the stands and laying into people.

4458