Am pre-announcing a blog post I intend to publish on Monday January 26th, 2009. Top 5 software / IT terms that are ripe for abuse. The four that immediately come to mind are REST, Cloud, Mashup and *AAS (saas, paas, maas etc.). I am opening up nominations for the 5th term. Please nominate your term along with rationale in comments below.
Abuse refers to the overuse of a word and implying it with too many different attributes in different contexts, so that eventually the same word can no longer be used without providing a lot of qualifications about “this is what I mean when I say …..”. Examples from past are n tier architecture, SOA etc.
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Allow me:
1. Web2.0: not sure why this term even became popular in the first place – but in my opinion has been the most widely used term by anyone who wanted to “conform”.
2. AJAX: this term made it glamorous to use a technique that has been around for much longer.
3. Social Network: hmm… who would have thought that a basic human behavioral pattern would one day be so sought after by the technical community.
4. plugin: this one is almost become a fashionable term. You better have a plugin for something or else be subject to ridicule.
Widget, Web Service, …
Platform.