Poet of Web 2.0 Pokes Fun
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on November 02, 2006,
Gathering together a list of sites, utilities, quirky nuggets, and time savers cannot only be fun, it can end up a poetic experience. At least that’s what I presumed Tate Linden at Stokefire Consulting was thinking when he compiled and published this witty artifact coined solely using Web 2-0 lingo, before further discovery of a subtitle revealed differently.
The first stanza follows:
“Analyzr, Awesomr, Bashr, Befittr,
Beggr, Blogr, Blufr, Browsr,
Certifyr, Coastr, Colr, ColorPickr,
Depictr, DiggFiltr, Dingr, Dreamr…”
You get the idea. Even if you don’t agree with Linden’s poetic protest, you can take his sixteen lines for what it looks like (at first glance): a lot of cool links! I can’t say I’m sick of the terminology quite yet, though I could imagine getting to that point. (Linden’s part of Stokefire Consulting Group, which evidently specializes in branding. It’s not hard to deduce why he feels the way he feels after learning that bit of info.)
My advice? Get some use out of the post. Explore some new places, mistr.
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I hate to say it, Paul, but I agree with you. There’re some really cool companies and services hidden behind the names. Many of the ideas are at least fun (if not profitable) and are worth a look.
Perhaps the removal of that penultimate letter is the new shorthand for “fun and pointless” in much the way “.com” used to symbolize a company going after mindshare over money in the late 90s.
Many thanks for the link - and enjoy the tour of Web 2.0 names!
Even better, Tate — I think we used up all the E’s in the late 90’s — e-Pets, e-Shop, e-Bay, etc… so now we’re paying the price because there are no E’s left! (This is Jay Bailey, Director of Marketing at Answers.com, home of blufr)
Ha!
In my defense, most of the e-companies are out of business at this point, so I’m sure we can find the leftover vowels and stick ‘em in.
(And you’ll note that I’ve been very kind in not pointing out that you’ve gone and left out a vowel AND a consonant. Note that I’vew used parentheses so that no one will find out your secret.)
In your defense, you’ll find that I created an account on blufr about four months ago and would’ve kept working on my score were it not for the fact that all of the people submitting bluf(f)s are lying liars who cheat like the cheating bad
bad evil conniving manipulative liars that they are. Needless to say I didn’t do very well.
I saw it. I was amused. I thought I’d give it a mention because I figured it was an interesting take on tech trends. Slightly self-deprecating (to the geek community) items are typically a good chuckle too. Kudos on the idea and the original post.