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Consumers have spoken: Facebook is worse than the IRS




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




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




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)




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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



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



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




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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Introducing Woofer – the Anti-Twitter



Jerry Seinfeld had Bizarro Jerry.

Superman had Bizarro Superman.

And now Twitter has Bizarro Twitter… aka WOOFER.

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I Wear Your Shirt



Jason Sadler is the next in a long line of Internet-savvy marketers who are working the ‘net to make a buck.  Remember the MILLION DOLLAR HOME PAGE, where businesses paid $1 per pixel to have their logo displayed on a giant home page?  Yeah, they made their money (and a lot of press).

Jason is doing the same type of thing, but instead of selling pixels, he’s selling his body.

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Twecipes – Chefs Cook Up Recipes with Twitter



Everyone who uses Twitter knows that Twitter limits all tweets to 140-characters.

That means some people get very creative with their abbreviations and phrasing in order to squeeze every last bit of information into those 140-characters.

But even with that restriction, it is possible to write TWECIPES aka COOKING RECIPES in those 140 characters.

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