Zillowing
v. Researching property values online, by address or zip code, using the free database at Zillow.com. This real estate-obsessed cousin of googling is just the latest form of online ogling.
Going bedouin
v. Downsizing a business by eliminating all but the core assets: employees and the communications links between them. A company that has gone completely bedouin lacks a physical location, operating simply as a network of engineering, sales, and support staff connected 24/7 by Internet and cell phone.
Slivercast
n. Video programming broadcast over the Internet to reach a demographically desirable niche so thin that the number of potential viewers is insufficient even for cable.
Supercentenarian
n. A person who has reached the age of 110. Close to 70 documented supercentenarians are alive today. Researchers study them relentlessly, but supercentenarians tend to attribute their apparent immortality less to advances in gerontology than to the felicitous effects of fine wine and an even finer sense of humor.
Jonathon Keats (jargon@wiredmag.com)START
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