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What’s your most overused Web lingo? What terms just piss you off?
by Allen Stern on January 5th, 2007
CreativeGroup just released a survey of 250 creative professionals (125 agency, 125 firm) asking what their most overused and annoying buzzwords in the creative industry are. Here are the top results:
- Outside-the-box
- Synergy
- The big idea
- ROI
- Paradigm shift
- Strategy
- Integrated solution
- CRM (Customer relationship management)
- Customer-centric
- Voice of the customer
- Critical mass
- Buzz
- Make it pop
- Break through the clutter
- Take it to the next level
- Innovation
- Free value
- Organic growth
- Low-hanging fruit
- It is what it is
So I pose to following question to you… what are the most overused and annoying buzzwords of the new Web? I will start the list:
- Web 2.0
- Wiki
- Meme
- Mashup
- inline
Community Driven Websites
Social Networks
Digg like/clone
mySpace like/clone
This post really made me giggle! Mainly out of embarrassment that I use 80% of those through-out each day…
How about..
interaction
new medium
distribution platforms (OK, I guess this isn’t *just* the new web but still gets my goat)
’strategic, targeted and focused marketing campaigns’ (all three mean practically the same…)
Matt – this post I thought for sure would make it on Digg. But alas, at the last possible moment before going to the home page, was buried. I have requested an explanation from the Digg team.
I am really frustrated with 6 for 6 buries. This one had 27 diggs, was in the #1 spot to move up and then blamo gone. Even had 20 diggs on comments alone!
I will report back once I hear from Digg management.
Two things I HATE:
1. Things don’t have “features” any more, they “rock“. eg. “The xbox 360 rocks a 20GB HDD.” “See Bob rocking a new hair-cut”. ENOUGH!!!
2. After compiling a list of instructions, it’s necessary to suggest we should “rinse and repeat”. ARRRRRGHHHHHH!!!
I’m done now :)
I am glad you got all that off your chest :)
And let me just say Wayde… you ROCKED that comment!
Nice to see you’re rocking the Text-Link-Ads ad that I designed ;)
SaaS ==> Software-as-a-Service
Ajax ==> Asynchronous Java Script
Comet ==> An Ajax cousin for server pooling activities.
CRM ==> Customer Relationship Management
to put these in a sentence:
“SaaS CRM vendors such as Netsuite and Salesboom.com offer an Ajax-rich User Interface and the later utilizes Comet-style server pooling for real time alerts.”