3 posts and columns on Lexicon

It's a New Day, So NewEnterprise Is Here

in Enterprise on December 1, 2010 at 4:10 am PT

Everyone loves Twitter and Facebook and Google, but when some part of them fails to work right, phrases like “Fail Whale” enter the popular lexicon, and careers, reputations and investments are all at risk. When they do work, the people who assembled all the hardware and software become the unsung heroes. That’s where NewEnterprise comes in.

When Overhyped Silicon Valley Start-Ups Collide: A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Words

in News on March 23, 2009 at 12:28 am PT

Here is a great chart, posted on Flickr by Facebook third-party app maker Narendra Rocherolle, that shows the rising popularity of the search word “Twitter” on the social-networking site’s Lexicon. Facebook’s Lexicon counts “occurrences of words and phrases” on its Walls over time. Interestingly, Facebook has recently done a redesign that some critics are saying is too much of a panicked reaction to the hype around the microblogging service, although Twitter’s audience is just a tiny sliver of Facebook’s.
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Facebook Lexicon: The Britney Test

in News on April 17, 2008 at 1:00 am PT

Ah, more pointless eye candy from BoomTown’s good friends at Facebook! Not satisfied to just entertain the masses with inane Vampires and SuperPokes, the social-networking site unleashed Lexicon on users this week. It’s kind of like Google Zeitgeist except… well, it is exactly the same concept, all part of Facebook’s admiration of Google (GOOG) things, [...]