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An open letter to MGM, Caesars, Sands, and other casino companies regarding social media

By web gangsta | Published: December 30, 2011


Fountains of Bellagio
Fountains of Bellagio

This is an open letter to the marketing staff at MGM Resorts, Caesars Entertainment, Sands, and other casino corporations.  And if you’re part of the marketing staff at a different type of company, you may want to pay attention to this as well – since the core takeaway here applies to you as well.

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Social networking sites can be just as addicting to teenagers as drugs and alcohol

By web gangsta | Published: September 14, 2011


Choices and Consequences: What to Do When a Teenager Uses Alcohol/Drugs
Choices and Consequences: What to Do When a Teenager Uses Alcohol/Drugs

Social networking website can be addicting. Who knew?

The people at the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, that’s who.

They’re the ones who recently came up with a study on teenage drug abuse and addiction entitled NATIONAL SURVEY OF AMERICAN ATTITUDES ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE XVI: TEENS AND PARENTS.

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Another good Twitter idea taken. Isn’t that right, @OldManSearch ?

By web gangsta | Published: August 4, 2011


Twitter for Dummies
Twitter for Dummies

File this one under “Yet Another Brilliant Idea that Web Watch Didn’t Think of First”.

Of course, first we’d have to get an 81-year-old father who didn’t understand how to use the Internet. 

Norman N is just that guy.  And he has a funny kid who decided to bring Dad into the 21st century.

And thus was born Old Man Search

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Let’s go meta: “That can be my next tweet” is, in fact, my next tweet. Whoa!

By web gangsta | Published: April 16, 2011


Ollie the Twitter Bird
Ollie, the Twitter Bird Mascot Toy

If you’ve been wondering what Web Watch’s next tweet would be, we can tell you that — at the time of this writing — it was most likely going to be something like one of the following:

  • Compared to Find out these apply to keep their STD Awareness Month says: OK GO’s Damian Kulash on
  • The Football Fan’s Guide to Roustabout says: The Platypus Song Christmas Trends to Get Ahead in 16!
  • Seven must-have kitchen gadgets, and you HAVE to Mouseworks to dislike Lady Gaga? Gays.
  • The 15 Biggest Box Office Holiday Party says: Ever wonder what the day: Sexy People!
  • Famous people would you really LOVE your money on when you bring with your farts says: How!
  • Connecticut tops the day: Sexy People! says: The 50 Types of 2010 says: One way to enjoy bicycling!

How did we know?

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Suggestions for improving your Twitter bios

By web gangsta | Published: March 11, 2011


Eat, Sleep, Tweet
Eat, Sleep, Tweet

Everybody has a Twitter account, right?

Well, now that you have one, you need to follow these TIPS FOR CRAFTING THE BEST, MOST AWESOME TWITTER BIO, cramming all of this into the 140-character limit that Twitter imposes.  You know, like everyone else does.

Here’s a sampling of the 15 tips that ALL Twitter users should follow:

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The secret to being social? Having a big brain

By web gangsta | Published: November 27, 2010



Winnie the Pooh Dressed as Tigger
A Bear of Very Little Brain

Science has determined what makes some of us more social than others – and it all has to do with THE SIZE OF OUR BRAIN THAT DETERMINES OUR LEVEL OF SOCIALNESS.

And using this information, it also explains why dogs are more social creatures than cats are — simply because a dog’s brain is larger than a cat’s brain.

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Social strategy decisions = what the f*** SHOULD we make for dinner?

By web gangsta | Published: November 6, 2010



Music for TV Dinners
Music for TV Dinners

Web Watch has two websites for you today.

The first one is WHAT THE F*** SHOULD I MAKE FOR DINNER? which is also soon to be available in book form (yet another blog-to-book deal, apparently).

One would visit this site to get suggestions on exactly what the f*** you should make for dinner.  Some of the f’ing suggestions include:

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Consumers have spoken: Facebook is worse than the IRS

By web gangsta | Published: July 21, 2010



Computer Smurf
Computer Smurf

With all the hype surrounding using social websites like Facebook or Twitter, and traditional websites trying to become more timely by jumping onto the social bandwagon, it appears that this may be one of those times when people are going social for the wrong reasons.

According to the 2010 AMERICAN CUSTOMER SATISFACTION INDEX (done by ACSI with ForeSee Results), consumers ranked social networking website FACEBOOK as being worse than the IRS.   When ranked on a 100-point scale, Facebook was ranked at a 64. 

64.  Where Web Watch went to school, this would be a D… if we were lucky.  Some teachers would have given that score an F.

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Audio Fun: Create your own Old Spice outgoing voicemail message

By web gangsta | Published: July 15, 2010



Old Spice Body Wash
Old Spice Body Wash

If you have been enjoying the OLD SPICE COMMERCIALS that have been sweeping across the Internet this week that star Isaiah Mustafa recording personalized Old Spice-themed messages as responses to Twitter, Facebook, and other messages that have been sent his way, then perhaps you’d want to visit one of these sites to record some history for yourself.

THE OLD SPICE MAN VOICEMAIL GENERATOR or THE OLD SPICE VOICEMAIL GENERATOR FOR MEN OR WOMEN.

Just enter a number and select from the presented choices, and your personalized MP3 will be generated and made available for your download and use – finally allowing your unanswered phone to not smell like desperation anymore.

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Video Fun: “TWITTER, The Criterion Collection” asks users to recreate their favorite tweets, visually

By web gangsta | Published: March 17, 2010



The Official Twitter Song

This is what happens when you take creative people and ask them to create a short video piece based on some other person’s recent Twitter posting.

Presenting: TWITTER: THE CRITERION COLLECTION

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What were the Top Words of the Decade? (You might want to Google it)

By web gangsta | Published: January 10, 2010



Scrabble Dictionary

Every year for the past 20 years, the AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY has gotten together to analyze and review word usage for the previous 12 months.  The beginning of 2010 is no exception, as Allan Metcalf and Grant Barrett (from MacMurray College and the online dictionary Wordnik.com, respectively) have released this year’s WORD OF THE YEAR and WORD OF THE DECADE.

The word of the year?   “tweet”, as either a description of the act of using Twitter, or the Twitter message itself.

The word of the decade?  “google”, used as a generic verb to search the Internet.

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TweetedBrands tells you the most tweeted brand names

By web gangsta | Published: November 9, 2009


Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn TrustTwitter is still the best place to go if you are looking for instant feedback on any topic, product, or service.

And if you’re a business that is playing in the social media field, you would be well-served by monitoring who is at the top of the heap when it comes to Twitter mentions of brand names.

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Facts Behind the Social Media Revolution

By web gangsta | Published: August 30, 2009


Web Watch hopes that sometime over the past month, you have seen this video, entitled SOCIAL MEDIA REVOLUTION, asking if social media (such as Twitter or Facebook) or other electronic transactions are here to stay, or just a fad.

Looking at the statistics we saw earlier, Twitter is still bordering on fad.

If you haven’t seen it, or simply want to watch it again, here it is:

httpv://www.youtube.com/v/sIFYPQjYhv8

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Most Visited Websites and Social Networks for July 2009

By web gangsta | Published: August 29, 2009



comScore, a research company, has published their list of the US’s TOP 50 MOST VISITED WEBSITES FOR JULY 2009, ranked by most unique visitors.

The top 10 most visited sites (or groups of sites, such as the case with Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, or others) are really no surprise:

  1. Google (with 195,538,000 unique visitors)
  2. Yahoo (includes Yahoo Mail, My Yahoo, etc)
  3. Microsoft (includes Bing, Hotmail, Windows Update, etc)
  4. AOL
  5. Facebook
  6. Fox Interactive Media (includes MySpace)
  7. Ask
  8. eBay
  9. Amazon
  10. Wikipedia

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