We’ve been catching ourselves saying “let’s zillow his house.” We thought of some RE 2.0 terms and phrases that may make it into the dictionary. The trick is to have a word that is fun to say and associated with a well-defined task.
Winners
Zillow, as in “to zillow your friend’s house”, means to snoop on someone’s net worth.
Craigslist, as in “to craigslist it”, means to post anything for free. We used to say “list it”, but that cost money.
Oodle, as in “to oodle for a car”, means to dig through the classifieds.
Runner Ups
Neighboroo, as in “to neighboroo a place”, means to dig up stuff about an area. Three syllable words don’t work as well.
Trulia, as in “to trulia for a house”, means to search the web for properties. We catch ourselves saying “jump on Trulia” instead.
Providence Furnished Apartments. We love the name, but it doesn’t work as a transitive verb. Instead, we say “check on TurnHere”.
Web 2.0 Verbs
For Web 2.0 at large, we think these new words will make it into the dictionary.
Youtube, as in “to youtube the Super Bowl commercials”, means to bring up any video content.
Digg, as in “to digg it”, means to recommend an article to the world.
Meebo, as in “to meebo with someone”, means to chat over the web.
As a GenX guy, I think realtors have a lot to win to figure out how to get their content to show up in these massive sites.
Web 2.0 Nouns
Unlike Google, eBay is a noun. So, what are some up and coming nouns in Web 2.0?
What’s your LinkedIn? Forget resumes.
What’s your SeondLife? (The most ingenious real estate development project ever.)
Did we miss something? Please chime in with your own candidates.