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Perettian
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English
Etymology
From en Peretti -an.
Adjective
Relating to or characteristic of Internet entrepreneur Jonah Peretti, co-founder of BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post.
en Tom McGeveran Some best-guesses about what BuzzFeed is up to, and why it is in fact about Arianna, a little w:Politico https://web.archive.org/web/20231020043813/https://www.politico.com/media/story/2012/02/some-best-guesses-about-what-buzzfeed-is-up-to-and-why-it-is-in-fact-about-arianna-a-little-000267/ 14 February 2012 The goal of Buzzfeed is not to make people "bookmark" them in their browser. In some ways, having one's own website, in the Perettian way of looking, is only important at the level of monetization: The models aren't quite there yet for monetizing a 100 percent distributed brand.
en Dan Kois A Dishy New History of Online Media Leaves Out Half the Equation Slate https://web.archive.org/web/20230801163013/https://slate.com/culture/2023/04/traffic-ben-smith-buzzfeed-huffpost-gawker-history.html 20 April 2023 For no matter how high-minded Smith's justifications, how Dentonian his dedication to exposing the truth, I know that when he got his hands on that dossier he felt the same Perettian prickle at the back of his neck that I did, interviewing Barney Bishop III.
Nathan Heller BuzzFeed, Gawker, and the Casualties of the Traffic Wars https://web.archive.org/web/20230902103008/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/15/traffic-ben-smith-book-review 3 May 2023 For a while, this Perettian tinkering was our special knowledge, our competitive advantage. Then it was everywhere.