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Conversations with technologists about technology. Hosted by the HackerNoon team.
HackerNoon is built for technologists to read, write, and publish. We are an open and international community of 45,000+ contributing writers publishing stories and expertise for 4,000,000+ curious and insightful monthly readers.
Founded in 2016, HackerNoon is an independent technology publishing platform run by David Smooke and Linh Dao Smooke.
Write anywhere, publish on HackerNoon.
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Thursday Oct 28, 2021
Diving Into the Metabook
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
This week on Planet Internet, David Smooke, Amy Tom, and Kien Dao dive into Facebook's speculated name change and move towards the Metaverse. Will they be called Faceverse? The Metabook? THE Facebook? Who knows! It is a branding crisis after all 😂
🌎 THIS WEEK ON PLANET INTERNET:
- Is a Facebook name change a good idea? (00:46) 🥺
- What will the new Facebook name be? (09:06) 😅
- What are dark patterns in UX design? (12:06) 🥵
- What's the latest with the new Macbook? (15:56) 🤯
- What are the technologies of the future that we're looking forward to? (23:20) 🤪
🗒️ SHOW NOTES:
- CNBC's report of Facebook's name change: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/21/facebooks-reported-name-change-7-rebrands-that-worked-or-didnt.html
- Article from the branding expert's point of view: https://www.fastcompany.com/90688822/im-a-branding-expert-heres-what-facebooks-reported-name-change-really-signals
- We Ought to Get Better at Recognizing Dark Patterns on HackerNoon: https://hackernoon.com/we-ought-to-get-better-at-recognizing-dark-patterns
- Apple's Macbook announcement: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/10/apple-unveils-game-changing-macbook-pro/
- Ten Future Technologies That Aren't in the Public Eye (Yet) on HackerNoon: https://hackernoon.com/ten-future-technologies-that-arent-in-the-public-eye-yet
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