What's your most overused Web lingo? What terms just piss you off?

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

 

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Submitted by Darren Stuart on January 5, 2007 - 11:08am.

Community Driven Websites
Social Networks
Digg like/clone
mySpace like/clone

Submitted by Matt Harwood on January 5, 2007 - 3:08pm.

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...)

Submitted by centernetworks on January 5, 2007 - 3:46pm.

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.

Submitted by Wayde Christie on January 6, 2007 - 8:43pm.

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 :)

Submitted by centernetworks on January 6, 2007 - 10:18pm.

I am glad you got all that off your chest :)

And let me just say Wayde... you ROCKED that comment!

Submitted by Anonymous on January 12, 2007 - 3:28am.

Nice to see you're rocking the Text-Link-Ads ad that I designed ;)

Submitted by Tom Greenberg on August 10, 2007 - 11:12pm.

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."

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