It's a concept created by marketer Seth Godin, the author of 1999's Permission Marketing. This time Seth is pushing the concept that ideas are the new currency of business. The object is to get people to embrace the idea and support it. Plus, now that he's the top Ideavirus guru, you can also hire him to be a highly paid consultant. Smells a little familiar, doesn't.
Incentive is a perfectly good word, but business decided it needed a verb form.
It was coined in 1995 by a Scott Adams' devotee, responding to a naming contest to describe anyone who doesn't keep up with Dogbert. A person who is less intelligent and less astonishingly attractive than you are. Internesia is when you can't remember which Web site the info came from or which bookmark might get you back there. Information leakage results when a programming flaw inadvertently reveals sensitive information as data passes through the Internet. Someone spotting the flaw could use that info to hack the originating computer system.