Comments on: The Tech Verbs Trend

By: The BROADSHEET Newsletter Autumn 2009

The BROADSHEET Newsletter Autumn 2009 — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:10:09 +0000

[...] to express the mechanics of spreading the news in the digital age and, yes – there’s a blog to keep track of [...]

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:13:18 +0000

Define the business act of keeping a an active and current diary, for example, his diary was not current, it was not “diaried” to date? There seems to be no verb use of diary. If the file is not “diaried”, the reviewer cannot succinctly comment on why the file is not compliant. any ideas?

By: Bright Meadow » Flickr me this

Bright Meadow » Flickr me this — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 14:32:06 +0000

[...] I use Flickr extensively as the online repository for my digital pictures – either quick snaps I have taken to illustrate a moment, or whole collections of memories – and often times what I blog links to Flickr, or what I flickr links back to Bright Meadow. (Thanks, by the way, to Paul for a great definition of the new verb ‘to flickr’). Whilst you can view just my Flickr stream, or read just the blog, you kinda miss out on part of the fun. Both contain facets of my online life, and more and more my ‘online’ life is becoming part of my mainstream life – it’s starting to get now that I’ll refer even work colleagues to Flickr if they want to see my holiday snaps. My friends have long been stopping by Bright Meadow to check I am still in the land of the living (my inability to answer email is getting so far beyond a joke as to become almost legend). I’ve got a mental list of friends who are happy to appear in snaps online and those who aren’t. I’ve got plans for something I’m rolling out in a little while that will tie my use of Bright Meadow and Flickr even closer together. [...]

By: Peter Filias

Peter Filias — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 02:07:35 +0000

Great article, Paul.

I use so many tech terms as verbs, people think I’m a freak.

By: M

Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:59:28 +0000

to IMDB something, or wikipedia something to search the aforementioned databases Â©The Troll

By: Aneil Weber

Aneil Weber — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:04:25 +0000

Paul,

I like how you broke this down and gave us these examples. I think that there are still plenty of new technologies and services have a really strong ability to become “verbs”, or as I call it “Normal”. One idea is ClaimID. I’m not sure what the verb will be but I’d be curious to see.

By: George

George — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 17:50:45 +0000

I use “ping” with reference to IMs, but only really to “are you there” type messages. Seems like a fitting use to me.

By: Marlo

Marlo — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 16:03:03 +0000

Interesting article. A friend and I were having a similar discussion about this.

Here’s one I’ve been hearing lately, “I’ll send you an Evite to my wedding.” *cringe*

By: Konstantinos

Konstantinos — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:53:49 +0000

From the “blog” definition: “for an online website with chronologically ordered and dated posts”

Shouldn’t that be “reverse-chronologically”? I don’t know if the phrase is correct as I typed it, but reverse is key and should be in there somewhere.

Also: seconding “ping”.

By: Kelsey Ruger

Kelsey Ruger — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 23:21:43 +0000

Flickr is also the verb that leads to Flickr finger. That is the disese where a person has their finger constantly ready to catch you doing something stupid so they can post it on Flickr.

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 22:17:47 +0000

Ah, yes Ping! I use that one myself.

By: Montoya

Montoya — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 22:16:17 +0000

Ping: To send an instant-message. This one annoys me because I see it as a total misuse of the word, but people still use it.

Tag: Ugh, I liked it better when this was about grafiti.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 21:37:37 +0000

Here in the UK the mass market use Bebo.com, it’s terrible. I hear people on the bus talking about putting things on their bebo and I want to slap them and tell them how shit it is and they should use Flickr instead. Then again, most of the social network crowd use IE so they are beyond help.

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 20:25:54 +0000

Haha, go for it gomes.

By: Chris Morrell

Chris Morrell — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 20:14:46 +0000

Nice article Paul, perhaps you should also define some internet slang while you are at it. Or maybe I should?

By: Cory

Cory — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 19:55:24 +0000

myspace, myspaced, myspacing

to use myspace, in all its craptivity

By: John

John — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 19:42:22 +0000

Nice article!