I’m indebted to WebProNews for revealing the following new words that the next gen of predictive texters know – but most people probably won’t. They’re entertaining to say the least:
- Lifehack – a tool or technique that makes some aspect of one’s life easier or more efficient
- Mashup – new information created by combining data from two different sources
- Placeshift – to redirect a TV signal so the viewer can watch a show on a device other than his or her television
- Playlistism – judging a person based on what songs are on the playlist of his or her digital music player
- Podjack – to plug the cord of one’s digital music player into the jack of another person’s player to hear what the person is listening to
- Puggle – a dog bred from a pug and a beagle
- Sideload – to transfer music or other content to a cell phone using the cell phone provider’s network
- Vlog – a blog that contains mostly video content
- Vodcast – a video podcast
- Ubersexual – a heterosexual man who is masculine, confident, compassionate and stylish