The Outsidr

The race is a bit too close to call at this point but if I was a betting man, my money might just be on “Social Media” to take the title of Most Painfully and Annoyingly Overused Term on the Internet, 2008. Sure it has some stiff competition with the likes of “I can haz”, “kitten”, “lol”, “bff” and any word with a “z” vexatiously slapped on at the end, but I think social media is positioned to make a huge run at the gold in the final months of this turbulent year. Experts overuse it, self-proclaimed experts overuse it, PR people overuse it, marketing people overuse it, bloggers overuse it… A word of warning: The next time someone says “social media” to me, I can haz to smash your kittenz and lolz – or something like that.

Apparently not everyone here thought that little joke was quite as funny as I did. Regardless, it was all in good fun despite a heaping portion of it possibly falling into the sad but true category. If you’d like to read Maroon’s follow up – recommended – head on over.

I know I shared this via delicious but I had to put it up in a post. Originally posted on Matt Maroon’s blog, the following is a presentation given at a recent Whiner Jerkins meeting with all of the CEOs from its portfolio companies in attendance. There is only one word that can describe it: AMAZING. Please view it in full screen mode…