Buzzword Monitor

Approximately 50 buzzwords were added to the Buzzword monitor web site recently, and I also listed a few of my favorite ones on the Blog last night. The whole idea of the web site is keep the definitions pretty simple, at least initially, but I suspect that the amount of information describing each buzzword will increase when people start making changes to the definitions.

Hopefully, the web site will not get too much SPAM, but if it does we will add Captcha’s to limit the access to Bots, and script monkeys. until that happens, it will be kept as simple as possible to make it easy for people to make changes to the definitions.

So take a look around, let us know what you think, and we look forward to hearing how we can improve the web site.

The definition below for BLOG, has been added at the following link. Since this is an interactive web site, if you do not like the definition below you can go to the link and change the definition.

Definition

This generally refers to a car that has both a gas powered internal combustion engine, and an electric engine which is powered by a battery. Only the electrical engine is used at slower speeds, and for starting. The energy that is normally wasted to heat when stopping can be captured and stored in batteries for later use by the electrical engine.

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Examples

Toyota Prius

The definition below for Credit Crunch, has been added to the Buzzword Monitor Website. Since this is an interactive web site, if you do not like the definition below you can go to the link and change the definition.

Definition

Credit crunch describes the problems caused the collapsing of the real estate market in the United States. When banks lost money due to sub prime real estate loans, they tightened up their lending requirements, which made it more difficult to obtain a loan. This reduction in liquidity is often described as the credit crunch.

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Examples

Country Wide

The definition below for Carbon Footprint has been added to the Buzzword Monitor Web Site. Since this is an interactive web site, if you do not like the definition below you can go to the link and change the definition.

Definition

Carbon footprint is used to describe the impact that CO2 emissions have on the environment. The more fossil fuel based energy that you consume, or the more inefficient that consumption is, the larger your carbon footprint. This term was made popular by Al Gore in his movie “An Inconvenient Truth”, and during the Live Earth concert.

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Examples

Live Earth

Sticking with the interactive web site theme the definition below for BLOG, has been added to the Buzzword Monitor Web Site. Since this is an interactive web site, if you do not like the definition below you can go to the link and change the definition.

Definition

A BLOG is an informal online web journal that is usually focused on one subject or topic. A subscriber to the Web Site or Blog will post entries that will then be listed chronologically. Each BLOG entry will be identified by key words, or TAGs, which will then be used by search engines to help find topics of interest. After a BLOG entry is posted to a web site, a search engine web site is pinged to let it know that updates are available.

Origin

Blog probably is taken from the words WeB LOG.

Examples

Thechnorati is the most popular BLOG search engine.

Since this is an interactive web site, it seems appropriate the the first posting on the buzzword monitor web site should to be related to Web 2.0. Keeping that in mind, the following definition for Web 2.0 has been added at the site. Since this is an interactive web site, if you do not like the definition below you can go to the link and change the definition.

Definition

The second generation of world wide web sites which allow users to focus on creating their content online, using familiar editing tools, instead of creating the actual web pages themselves. The most common Web 2.0 applications are Blogs, Social Networking Sites, and Forums.

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Examples

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The Buzzword Monitor Wiki Web Site has been launched. It is intended to be an easy to use web site, where people can find quick definitions of popular buzzwords. Since the web site is wiki based, it is also possible for people to make changes to any of the definitions, or add their own buzzwords.