Ambrose Bierce and Internet Startups

I rarely dip into Valleywag — it’s about Californians and I live in London, basic­ally. But I luckily stumbled on today’s devil’s dic­tionary post. The fol­lowing might be worth renewing my subscription:

Folksonomy: A defin­i­tion system by which the language’s most important word becomes “porn.“
Meme: An idea best expressed on a bumper sticker.
Monetize: To suck the life from.
Gamma: Still broken after three tries.
Ajax: A warrior too powerful to work on your phone.
Standards-​​compliant: The web equi­valent of “Yeah, but she sure can cook.“
Prosumer: An amateur with $3,000 to burn.
Long tail: The mass of products that sell ten times the units the dis­trib­utor expected, and one tenth the units than the creator expected.
Bluetooth: A tech­no­logy akin to short­ening a USB cord, strip­ping the insu­la­tion, and mashing the ends with a hammer.

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