Which Is Your Most Hated Web 2.0 Buzzword?
By George Dearing on Sep 3, 2008 in Content, Tech Rants, Web 2.0
I pulled the buzzwords below off a poll that Internet Evolution started running a week or so ago. My personal pick is “monetize”. I guess it’s because that’s the one I’ve heard the most over the last year. If you can define each of them, you have my permission to use them — sparingly though.
Which is your least fave?
On Sep 4, 2008, Bill said:
I loved buzzword bingo and used to play it back in my pr/corporate days during company wide meetings. Ahh, the memories of synergistic leverage of our human resource assents… Least favorite word today is Poke simply because my wife doesn’t think it is appropriate for a 42 year old professor to “poke” any student. I would agree and add that my students would also find it a bit creepy.
On Sep 5, 2008, Jim Gross said:
“Which is your least fave?”
It used to be “Web 2.0″. Now “cloud computing” and its variants have become the new “Web 2.0″.
“Monetize” is up there too, especially now that one of my favorite Web 2.0 (ding!) apps, Jott, has moved their best features to a premium pay-service level. Who do these people think they are trying to profit off a great idea?! [/fake righteous indignation]
“Mashup” is just kinda hard to say with a straight face in a meeting.