No longer just a brand, and just like the verb ‘Xerox’ before it, Google is now officially a verb according to Merriam-Webster. Do you ‘Yahoo‘? I do – but not if you go by the dictionary. I definitely ‘Fed-ex’ – but that hasn’t made it as a verb yet either.
When I was a Spring Chicken, I used to be really good at impressing Julian with all of the amazing amounts of trivia and useless information that I had retained in my head. Trivial Pursuit was my favorite game. With song lyrics and music trivia my memory was expecially stellar – almost photographic in fact.
In the last few years, my ability to remember useless information packed up and went away with my spelling ability (I blame spell check). Now, I no longer have to think as I can just Google everything.
The Marketing Pilgrim offered up some funny words to add including:
“ebayed” – def – to block a competitor’s service by changing your terms and conditions.
“scobled” – def – when a company loses street-cred when a key blogger leaves the company.
“AOL’d” – def – the complex process of trying to convey simple instructions to a customer service rep.
I have one to add for recruitment:
MySpaced – Def: when a candidate loses an opportunity at a job offer because of the content on their MySpace page. Antonym: Dooced.
Have any other recruitment words to add?
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I don’t think dooced is an antonym to the “MySpaced” definition. Heather Armstrong (nee Hamilton, but not me) was fired for stuff she posted on her blog.
Did we really lose net street cred when Scoble left? I know a lot of people that would disagree. I guess it depends on your view of his role and whether or not you liked him (kind of a blunt way to put it but some have speculated that his blogging was more about Scoble than Microsoft). I think the jury is still out on that one, but I’m sure we all have our own opinions on that. I sure hope that doesn’t become a verb. : )
Hey Heather H. Heather Armstrong is one of my favorite bloggers. Maybe antonym isn’t the right descriptor. I was trying to relate being ‘dooced’ (losing your job because of your blog) to being ‘myspaced’ (not even being considered for a job because of your myspace page).
I guess they are somewhat synonymous actually – Did I mention that I am not a good writer?
. The opposites I was going for were the currently employed vs. looking to be employed job candidates.
Those of us in the recruitosphere wouldn’t want to be dooced for our blogs – just as candidates don’t want to lose out of opportunities due to their myspace pages.
I saw other funny Microsoft related ones (hey – you know I am a happy MS using PC girl):
Certainly not looking to start a PC vs. Mac war – but here’s my answer:
- LOL -
Haha…well at least you are funny Shannon. Trust me, that makes up for a lot in my book. Heather Armstrong is one of my favorite bloggers too. I think her dog is made out of clay. I found her while ego surfing. I decided at that point to consider that there were many fascinating people named Heather Hamilton because it simply could not be a coincidence ; )
OK, so the “scoble-ized” thing exists. I’ve definitely seen it used. It comes with blog trolls though. I don’t covet his audience.
Hey, if the PC versus Mac war gets too hot in your household, we are going to get Team Shannon t-shirts.
Not to add to the war but how about this:
“mac’ed”- referring to the fact that your computer came in a pretty color as a “feature”
Ahh, I shouldn’t joke. I actually think that Apple is genius with the consumer advertisements (though I still think the mac guy looks smelly…their target audience must be OK with that…I’m old). And I do own an iPod.
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