Woot Named Word of the Year! Woot!

Published on December 12th, 2007

W00t named “word of the year” by Webster. Beats out Bluetooth, “surge” and Facebook used as verb.
John Chambers for President?
Helios doing YouTube videos. The phone is for kids apparently.
300 hotfixes in Vista SP1. No better compatibility though.
Fortune Magazine headline is questionable.
eBay says it will improve user experience.
Video game usage enormous.
LeWeb in Paris going on. Pointless.

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# 1 BigTimeBossMan said, on December 12th, 2007 at 6:53 pm

I think it should have been “facebooked” because, in reality, nothing is more stalk-tastic than facebooking someone online.

# 2 Captain Cheeseloaf said, on December 12th, 2007 at 9:01 pm

“Woot” should have been word of the year in 1998. not 2007.

# 3 AlanB said, on December 12th, 2007 at 9:13 pm

Perhaps a miscarriage of justice so-to-speak. I read somewhere the word of the year is chosen from a list of words most frequently typed into search engines. I suspect “woot” is not researched to determine whatever the current geeky meaning of the term may be but just to find the clearinghouse website “woot!”. It feels like nothing more than pure consumerism made woot the word of the year.

# 4 chewy said, on December 12th, 2007 at 9:48 pm

Hey John, have you been drinking?

# 5 Dorksters said, on December 12th, 2007 at 11:52 pm

The more I’m online, the more I don’t want to be online. What utter shite.

# 6 BubbaRay said, on December 13th, 2007 at 1:00 am

300 Hotfixes in Vista SP1. Only 300? I was hoping for real fixes. Dream on, I suppose.

# 7 the Three-Headed Cat said, on December 13th, 2007 at 2:52 am

w00t ‘w00t’!

# 8 the answer said, on December 13th, 2007 at 6:11 am

I am so sick of that internet age slang.

Go to Tikibartv.com and watch Episode #9.

# 9 Rabble Rouser said, on December 13th, 2007 at 6:24 am

Is it woot, or w00t?

# 10 Personality said, on December 13th, 2007 at 7:13 am

It’s SPANK THE MONKEY.

# 11 Ron Larson said, on December 13th, 2007 at 9:26 am

John,
Can you provide a link to the Fortune Mag’s take on the LeWeb conference? I can’t find anything about on Fortune’s website. Thanks!

# 12 doG said, on December 13th, 2007 at 9:27 am

I’ve never heard “woot” spoken. Is it just a written word which would rank it, ironically, as a “big” word mostly seen but never really heard?

Can the prodigious prognosticator reply?

# 13 Jeff said, on December 13th, 2007 at 5:36 pm

Congratz to the word w00t w00t!

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