I must say, I loled at this:
> hello is the first social network built on loves, not likes.
I know that the intention is great; it's just that I automatically pictured this as a scene in "Silicon Valley" (the TV show).
> hello is the first social network built on loves, not likes.
I know that the intention is great; it's just that I automatically pictured this as a scene in "Silicon Valley" (the TV show).
It's interesting to me that a lot of shows do this, and I'm not sure why. Silicon Valley has Hooli. Veep has Clovis. Person of Interest had "Fetch and Retrieve", which honestly guys are you even trying. None of these shows seems to shy away from portraying other large tech companies, and it's trivially obvious even to someone nowhere near the industry what these ciphers are supposed to represent. I don't know of a case where anyone has actually gotten sued over depicting an actual company. So I'm not sure whether these "not really Google but yeah totally Google" companies are meant to defend against that threat, or exist for some other reason of which I'm not aware.
Sure, "Hooli search" and "Hooli phone" seems like a dead ringer for Google, but then I could easily point to the whole Nucleus thing and say "well duh, it's Dropbox!" Or I could look at Gavin Belson's extremely cut-throat persona and say "well duh, it's Amazon/Apple!"
I think the show does a pretty good job of not singling out any particular large tech company, but all of them in aggregate.
In fact, I think I remember at least one episode where Hooli mentions Google, so in this universe, it's a new company.
Watch it someday, it's hilarious, particularly the first season.