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Stefan Schmollack Group moderatorThe company name is only visible to registered members.The Great Language Land Grab - Rather than fighting over words, innovators could be innovating
Microsoft, Apple and Amazon are fighting over the right to use a simple two-word phrase: “app store.”
Facebook is filing trademarks on an array of common four-letter words: “like,” “wall,” “poke” and, as you may guess, “face” and “book.”
Christopher Johnson, branding expert:
“there’s a land grab going on”; “companies are trying to snatch up pieces of our cultural commons.”
http://www.thenameinspector.com/
See also:
Article in The New York Times:
"The Great Language Land Grab"
By BEN ZIMMER
Published: March 26, 2011http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/weekinreview/27zimmer.html
"Rather than fighting over little words, the innovators of the Information Age could be busy, well, innovating."
A version of this article appeared in print on March 27, 2011, on page WK2 of the New York edition.
- 29 Mar 2011, 12:36 am
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Stefan Schmollack Group moderatorThe company name is only visible to registered members.
Re: The Great Language Land Grab - Rather than fighting over words, innovators could be innovating
I am selling letters. Someone want to buy an "a", "b" or "c"?
I can make some machine make it for you.
- 01 Apr 2011, 06:13 am
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Stefan Schmollack Group moderatorThe company name is only visible to registered members.
Re^2: The Great Language Land Grab - Rather than fighting over words, innovators could be innovating
If you want to buy more than one letter, things start getting complicated.
Fortunately I have some cooperation partners who could help you.
This post was modified on 01 Apr 2011 at 06:25 am.- 01 Apr 2011, 06:24 am
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Stefan Schmollack Group moderatorThe company name is only visible to registered members.
Re^3: The Great Language Land Grab - Rather than fighting over words, innovators could be innovating
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simple two-word phrase: “app store.”
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“app store.”
What can be said about this, from a formal linguistic point of view?
- Clearly, this is a paradigmatic case of concatenation of characters. Some people call this a "string".
- 01 Apr 2011, 06:29 am
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Stefan Schmollack Group moderatorThe company name is only visible to registered members.
Re^4: The Great Language Land Grab - Rather than fighting over words, innovators could be innovating
Anybody need an app to store the string "app store"?
Get MicroEMACS for free:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroEMACS
Daniel Lawrence's MicroEMACS sitehttp://www.aquest.com/emacs.htm
MicroEMACS binaries sitehttp://www.mtxia.com/fancyIndex/Tools/Editors/MicroEMACS/
JASSPA MicroEmacs sitehttp://www.jasspa.com/
vile (VI Like Emacs) sitehttp://invisible-island.net/vile/vile.html
- 01 Apr 2011, 06:46 am
