In the spirit of the recent Oxford Dictionary of English announcement about the introduction of “tweetup” into their dictionary, I thought it was time to develop a word for someone who has a presence all over the internet.
In the spirit of polymath and polyglot…
Noun – A polyweb is a person who has an online presence across many different websites.
There have been a number of Google announcements in the past few weeks of interest:
That’s all in the last week or so. If we look back to the past few months, there are a few other things that are interesting:
Individually, each of these things is interesting and has generated a lot of online column space. Collectively, it leads to me think that there’s moves afoot in Mountain View to consolidate online services into a saleable bundle.
I would suspect that for most people the collective offering of Google Apps and Google Mail bundled on top of a Google OS and a Google browser would meet most, if not all, of their day-to-day needs. Perhaps Google think that millions and millions of small business don’t need the extent of MS’s Exchange and Office platforms and there’s a market to sell a bundled, largely online, end-to-end package?
In these troubled times everyone should be sweating their assets.
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Updated 17/07 with some extra links
The evidence seems to be mounting.