Alphabets 2.0

This morning me, sheece, thakkar and indradeep were having a discussion on Alphabets 2.0. We all have been taught A for Apple in school. This is how things might take shape couple of years down the line.

A – Apple (still apple!)

B – Blogger (Barnes and Nobles looked good as well, but blogger won the race.)

C- CraigsList (with due respect to Creative Commons)

D – Digg (Delicious was a close competitor)

E – EBay (could have been engadget as well)

F- Facebook (Feedburner was an impatient customer, but NO. Flickr received some soft corners as well)

G – GOOGLE (without any thought)

H – Hi5 (someone mentioned hotmail, and was badly beaten to pulp)

I – iTunes, iPod, iPhone, iXxxxx

J – Joost (Joost was too big a name for Jaxtr)

K – Konfabulator (Kazza gave up after some initial rounds)

L – LinkedIn (crown prince of L’s)

M – MySpace (If you though Microsoft, then they are 2.0 loosers)

N – Netvibes 

O – Orkut (OPML, you need to be household name)

P – PodCast (Picasa…. No)

Q – Quintura (Q is not very famous web2.0 letter. Not much vocabulary exists.)

R – RSS (sorry Reddit people, respect ruled you out)

S – Slashdot (Skype was busy calling people, so we did not disturb it)

T – Twitter (TechMeme and Techcrunch were there, but Twitter had a strong T )

U- Ubuntu (We could not reach any other name, so ubuntu takes U)

V – VC (This overrides every other thing Dude. No questions asked!)

W – Wikipedia (Wordpress, democracy ruined your chances)

X – Xanga (Still young)

Y – YouTube (Yahoo had a chance, but google did it…..)

Z- Zoho (It deserved first for jetting rocket speed, but Z was too heavy for them to finish last on this list)