Identi.ca has bought Twitter according to Identi.ca acquires Twitter. According to a Twitter executive: “I was worried we were going to have to make a business out of that whole Twitter thing! I’m really glad it’s someone else’s problem now.”
I heard a really good new word during the week – Marchitecture. According to Wikipedia, Marchitecture means:
The term is applied to any form of electronic architecture perceived to have been produced purely for marketing reasons.
This was the context in which I heard the word being used in a presentation that I attended. Indeed, it was the presenter, who is a marketer, who used the word :)
However, a more serious meaning for it is also provided:
A marketecture…is one page, typically informal depiction of the system’s structure and interactions. It shows the major components, their relationships and has a few well chosen labels and text boxes that portray the design philosophies embodied in the architecture. A marketecture is an excellent vehicle for facilitating discussion by stakeholders during design, build, review, and of course the sales process. It’s easy to understand and explain, and serves as a starting point for deeper analysis.
I can actually appreciate the use of this meaning :o
I heard a friend of mine use the term weaktop during the week to describe a netbook. Perhaps his view is due to the fact that he is an intense gamer, and hence a netbook simply is not of much use to him. Either way, I thought that the term was very humorous :D
Unfortunately, I quickly discovered that my friend was not the first person to create or use this term. For example, there are many articles such as Linux weaktops poised for death by smartphone that already use it :o
Anybody who has ever watched a Juniper presentation, read some Juniper material, or indeed had almost any contact with Juniper will be familiar with its cartoons. Actually, if you are not familiar when these cartoons then take a look at the collection contained at Juniper Cartoons. I think that some of them are brilliant!
However, it seems that Juniper no longer believes that these cartoons are appropriate for its image according to Juniper Kills the Cartoons!. Perhaps this view is correct, because some of the cartoons are very unflattering towards Cisco. Event the cartoonist agrees that the cartoons should end, according to Juniper’s Cartoonist Isn’t Bitter.
I decided to begin 2009 with a humorous post about the buzzwords of 2008 according to The New York Times. The technology sector is normally busting with new buzzwords, so it is interesting to see what buzzwords have main it mainstream!
I think that my favourite buzzword is photobombing, and it means
Intentionally inserting oneself as an unwelcome subject in the background of someone else’s photograph.
Perhaps the most ridicules buzzword is longphoto, which means
A video of 90 seconds or less. Used by the photo-sharing Web site Flickr, which began permitting videos this year.
I do not understand what was wrong with short video!
It is interesting that most of the buzzwords are related to either the US election or the economy.
I have a friend who is very sceptical of trademarks and patents, particularly in the context of the Internet. So I immediately thought about this friend when I read an article describing how a Russian businessman has successfully trademarked an emoticon in Russia :o
Luckily European users of emoticons do not need to panic (or start writing cheques) because this trademark will not be recognised here :D
A French friend of mine sent me a link this morning, and told me to take a look at it. The link was http://www.obama08.fr/, so I was expecting another Barack Obama website.
However, if you visit this link you are actually taken to http://www.elysee.fr/, which is the official homepage of the French President!
I think that this is nothing more than a good joke, because the registration details for each domain are quite different according to the WHOIS Service for French domains.
