Buzzword Alert: XOHM
This week’s buzzword is XOHM. (It’s pronounced like the word home with the letter z in front.) What is it? XOHM is the WiMAX service that Sprint Nextel rolled out this week in Baltimore. What’s the...
View ArticleBuzzword Alert - MoSoSo and the Enterprise
What is MoSoSo? It’s a cool, hip abbreviation for Mobile Social Software. It’s not new, but it’s buzzworthy again because Dustin Moskovitzand (Facebook c0-founder) and Justin Rosenstein (Facebook...
View ArticleBuzz Alert - CutOutDissection.com
This week’s buzzword is CutOutDissection.com. In case you missed the news, a 19 year old PETA intern named Jennifer Thornburg legally changed her name to CutOutDissection.com. Here’s her driver’s...
View ArticleBuzzword Alert: First Click Free (FCF)
I’m pinch hitting this week for the normal “designated blogger,” a useful metaphor given that the World Series is upon us. (Hats off to the Tampa Bay Rays, who defeated the hometown team in Boston,...
View ArticleWindows Azure: A flash of blue sheds some light on the Microsoft cloud
Is the future of computing in the clouds? Ray Ozzie, who took on the mantle as Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect when Bill Gates retired, thinks that the answer may be “yes” — at least on the back...
View ArticleBuzzword Alert: vote flipping
Have you heard? There’s an election here in the US tomorrow. After years of campaigning, votes have been pouring in over the last few days as early voters hit the polls and absentee ballots begin to be...
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Holograms, tomograms and perceptive pixels
Besides giving us a new President, last week’s election gave America’s television networks a whole lot of new tech toys.The biggest buzz has been about CNN’s holograms. Were they actually holograms or...
View ArticleBuzzword Alert: Craigslist criminal
Criminals haven’t exactly earned high marks in the intelligence department over the years, as both the Darwin Awards and local police blotters attest. Cybercriminals tend to be of a higher order, no...
View ArticleBuzzword Alert: The retweet (RT) is the FWD of 2008
Twitter, the wildly popular microblogging service, has spawned Yet Another Tech Acronym. I know, I know, YATA YATA YATA. Stay with me. RT is to FWD as 2008 is to 1998, except on a larger stage. The...
View ArticleBuzzword Alert: Facebook Connect
Last August, when I wrote about Facebook’s evolution from a social network to a social utility, the lingo around the social networking phenomenon was well established. We friended college classmates,...
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