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Competitive Marketing MashUp

One side job I have is as a business spokesperson for our company.

In one particualr presentation to a captive audience (something in NY if I recall correctly) I mashedup marketing speak from a number of companies familiar to the audeince. Needless to say my mashup made as much sense as its individual components;

"Our solution paradigm offers a higher level of transparency to your organization by automating unstructured content to help you meet your intellectual capital challenges through contextualization, semantic network cartridges and an aggregation layer that provides data agnostic access to heterogeneous information sources, all while providing exceptional accuracy due to our collaborative filtering and relevance algorithms. Concept matching technology and active folders can automatically create taxonomies and build social networks to better connect your carbon-based resources to your silicon assets. ESP and EIEIO technologies will allow your employees to execute a technical deep dive that avoids idea distancing."

wtf?

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