Please TechCrunch, stop using "dead simple" to describe every new app.(act.ly)

30 pointsby jgilliamvor 16 Jahren17 comments

Please TechCrunch, stop using "dead simple" to describe every new app.

http://act.ly/1t5

20 comments

Please TechCrunch, publish whatever (legal) you want to. That's what got you where you are today. If I stop liking what you write, I just won't read your site any more. Yours, Not A Whiner.

dasil003vor 16 Jahren

You've been downvoted, but you have a solid point.

I find it sort of amusing that the thing that bothers someone about TC is the regular use of a bland two-word phrase. Personally I'm more offended by the sensationalism, gossip, self-importance, and echo-chamber magnification—all of which are reasons I stopped reading TC years ago.

jasonlbaptistevor 16 Jahren

Amen.

swombatvor 16 Jahren

Interesting idea (act.ly), not entirely sure if it's necessary, though it could be useful to help create a mass movement.

However, please sort out the theme... the red is way too violent. It almost hurts my eyes to look at this page.

[deleted]vor 16 Jahren

mortenjorckvor 16 Jahren

If "dead simple" is the new norm for web applications, isn't that a good thing?

So long as the term's actually appropriate.

Semiapiesvor 16 Jahren

Dear submitters,

Please stop submitting blog posts where people whine about people writing some trivial cliche.

That's now very cliche itself.

stingraycharlesvor 16 Jahren

Only 481 for the literal "dead simple" match:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22dead+simple%22+s...

Still a lot, but not nearly as much.

stcredzerovor 16 Jahren

We can make TechCrunch even geekier by moving to the "undead simple" scale. Is the app usable by a Zombie or animated skeleton? Or would one need to be as smart as a vampire? This would have the side-effect of converting TC into /. Desirability of that varies greatly depending on whom you ask.

JarekSvor 16 Jahren

No to long time ago I wrote this post about Simple and Easy in the tech world http://blog.smartupz.com/2010/03/simple-and-easy-as-terms-ar...

stcredzerovor 16 Jahren

Went there, but didn't find any D+D references.

webwrightvor 16 Jahren

Related: it'd be nice if they said "on a tear" less to describe growth.

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:techcrunch.com+on+a+tear

4,420 mentions of that phrase on techcrunch.com. ;-)

dirtboxvor 16 Jahren

"Dead simple" it a common and pretty old (60's/70's?) term originating from North of the UK. There's probably a Brit there with an infectious turn of phrase. When I'm working with people in the US for an extended length of time, they inherit a LOT of my colloquialisms.

whyenotvor 16 Jahren

It's a rather old term, even in the US, going back to the 1940s, at least in print. The example I linked to last time was a Time magazine book review from 1942 or something like that). It's really fun to investigate stuff like this using Google News' archive search :)

It's clear that usage has really taken off recently, although it is possible it may have peaked in 2008.

http://news.google.com/archivesearch?pz=1&cf=all&ned...

bensummersvor 16 Jahren

You should make up some random UK colloquialisms, and find the most outlandish one you can get them to adopt.

mortenjorckvor 16 Jahren

I think that would quickly turn into a real oyster carnival.

T_S_vor 16 Jahren

And business people, please don't "reach out" to me anymore. It's dead simple, just email or call.

omarchowdhuryvor 16 Jahren

When are we going to "touch base"?

[deleted]vor 16 Jahren

vakselvor 16 Jahren

I wish they'd stop posting about people leaving/joining a company. I can see if it's someone important....but they dedicate posts to nobodies. "A janitor at Facebook has decided to move to Google...does this spell doom for Facebook?"

I realize they gotta put out a lot of crap to get pageviews but this is ridiculous.