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March 16, 2012 By News Staff
If you don’t understand what the cloud is, don’t feel bad. You certainly are not alone.
“Big Data” and “The Cloud” have landed in the No. 1 and No. 2 spots, respectively, on an annual list of the Most Confusing Tech Buzzwords of the Decade (Thus Far).
The Global Language Monitor, an Austin, Texas-based media analytics company that tracks language trends worldwide, uses a proprietary algorithm to determine the list, which is released each year at the SXSW conference in Austin.
Here’s a full list of the Most Confusing High-Tech Buzzwords Since 2010:
1. Big Data
2. The Cloud
3. The Next Big Thing
4. Social Discovery
5. Web 2.0 (3.0 and so on)
6. Solid State (as in “solid state” disks)
7. CERN (The acronym of The European Organization for Nuclear Research)
8. Solar Max
9. De-dupe
10. 3G/4G/5G
11. SoLoMo
The Global Language Monitor also named the Most Confusing Tech Acronym of 2012:
The winner is SOA (solutions oriented architecture).
In the comments section below, please share the high-tech buzzwords you think are most confusing. There surely are more than 11 of them.
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HA! I thought SOA stood for Search Optimization Architecture.
And I thought it was Service Oriented Architecture!
It seems that SOA is the most confusing acronym. If further proof is needed please consider the following. SOA is short for "Service Oriented Architecture", instead of "solutions oriented architecture" as stated above.
SOA... Clever, Albert, but you're wrong too, in fact, SOA stands for Sons of Anarchy.
I always liked forming a Tiger team. TIGER stands for, This is Getting Extremely Ridiculous! Usually followed by being SOL if selected to lead it. I often repeat new acronyms with an added "....MOUSE" at the end to illustrate how bad they are. Our newest CSE added to our NDT IMA sysgen ops will join us at COB at EOW to mingle .....MOUSE! (As in Mickey Mouse)
Please define the list!
What ATX Gal said. The reason I open the story is to find clarity, not to propogate confusion. Instead of an "Ah-ha" moment this was a "So what?" moment.
This article might be more useful if included the accepted or standard definitions of the "most confusing buzz-words." Then, at the very least, it might have contributed to clarity a bit.
Each profession seems to have it's own set of TLA's. (Three Letter Acronyms)