Comments on: Does Benihana Mean Birthday or Teppanyaki? http://www.kellblog.com/2010/01/05/does-benihana-mean-birthday-or-teppanyaki/ This blog is written by Dave Kellogg, CEO of MarkLogic Corporation, covering next-generation information management, enterprise search, and content management technologies along with commentary on Silicon Valley, venture capital, and the business of software. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:46:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: notshia http://www.kellblog.com/2010/01/05/does-benihana-mean-birthday-or-teppanyaki/comment-page-1/#comment-2079 notshia Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:08:46 +0000 http://test.kellblog.com/2010/01/05/does-benihana-mean-birthday-or-teppanyaki/#comment-2079 Microsoft did the rare trick of doing two company's worth of positioning, thus one needs two words to describe them. "Windows" and "Office". Microsoft did the rare trick of doing two company's worth of positioning, thus one needs two words to describe them. "Windows" and "Office".

]]> By: piers http://www.kellblog.com/2010/01/05/does-benihana-mean-birthday-or-teppanyaki/comment-page-1/#comment-2078 piers Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:12:49 +0000 http://test.kellblog.com/2010/01/05/does-benihana-mean-birthday-or-teppanyaki/#comment-2078 Dave - I have had similar thoughts lately about Wolfram|Alpha, and I believe you are right about the namespace confusion leading to apparently accidental organic rebranding.<br /><br />For example, it is sometimes very useful to be able to demonstrate through a link that a number is a prime. Wolfram|Alpha allows you to do this authoratatively and conveniently.<br /><br />At least in my eyes, "W|A" means "Prime" - not a bad thing, but possibly not what they intended. Dave – I have had similar thoughts lately about Wolfram|Alpha, and I believe you are right about the namespace confusion leading to apparently accidental organic rebranding.

For example, it is sometimes very useful to be able to demonstrate through a link that a number is a prime. Wolfram|Alpha allows you to do this authoratatively and conveniently.

At least in my eyes, "W|A" means "Prime" – not a bad thing, but possibly not what they intended.

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