Category: Internet

What is the key of YOUR favorite songs?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 17, 2010

Remember back when Web Watch told you about how THERE SHE GOES by SIXPENCE NONE THE RICHER was called THE MOST PERFECT SONG EVER RECORDED? It was called that, in part due to its ideal song length, and for other reasons as well.

While it may not be a way to tell if what you’re listening to is THE perfect song or not, if you’re a LAST.FM user than we can at least identify if the key of your favorite songs all fall into the same ballpark or not.

In other words, do you favor listening to songs that are in the same key or not?

Tags Internet, Music, survey, website

Gadgets Games Internet Video Games

Betcha can’t name the Most Played Video Game of All Time

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 26, 2010

Can you name the MOST PLAYED VIDEO GAME OF ALL TIME?

It’s not MS PAC MAN.

It’s not TETRIS.

It’s not even Microsoft Windows’ SOLITAIRE card game (although that one should qualify as the most played video game in the office environment).

Tags gadget, Internet, video games, World Record

10 Things Disney How To Internet News

Picking a good password is important. “Tigger” is not a good password.

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 24, 2010

A recent study has been released that took a look at over 32 million passwords that were published onto the Internet after a hacker broke into the ROCKYOU.COM website.

This is the first time that a password study of this magnitude was able to be performed, but it did confirm a few things about users and the passwords they choose: PEOPLE ARE NOT PICKING SECURE PASSWORDS FOR THEIR ONLINE ACCOUNTS.

The most common password found online is typically 12345, although the ROCKYOU data had the most common password being 123456, with nearly 1 percent of the ROCKYOU users being that uncreative. Go figure – that extra digit made it that much harder to hack into the critical ROCKYOU website.

Tags 10 Things, Disney, facebook, How To, Internet, News, survey, Tigger

How To Internet Websites

Today’s lesson: Writing jokes isn’t easy. Computers that write jokes aren’t funny.

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 19, 2010

A friend of ours is a comedy writer.

He always says that writing jokes isn’t easy. We keep telling him that he would have more free time if scientists would invent a robot that could write jokes.

He insisted that there was no way a machine could write something that was as funny as what a person could write. Web Watch tried not to point out how horrible some so-called sitcoms are, or how repetitive certain late-night talk show host monologues have become.

And then along comes the JOKE WRITING COMPUTER.

Tags How To, Internet, Party Talk, science, website

Internet

How much money can you make by blogging? Try $7.50/hour

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 16, 2010

Bloggers, being the new century journalists that they are (yes, we’re thinking of you Perez!), have to walk a fine line between the low-cost of entry to the world of online publishing and the low-cost return on investment they get on what they’re writing about.

This does explain the current glut of blog-as-book deals that Web Watch has shown you over the past few months, because mama bloggers gotta eat, and blogging by itself just isn’t enough to pay the bills.

Tags Blog, business, Internet

Games Internet Video Games Websites

Flash Fun: Minions on Ice (from the creators of the new Desktop Tower Defense)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 14, 2010

Sometimes, all you want to do is climb into a heavy-duty tank and blow up someone else up in a massive game of capture-the-flag.

That’s just what you do in MINIONS ON ICE, one of the many games from David Scott and the CREATIVE COLLECTIVE, the creators of DESKTOP TOWER DEFENSE.

Yeah, that’s right. David Scott is one of the masterminds behind Creative Collective, and he’s the guy who practically invented the Tower Defense genre that has killed so much of our free time with games such as Flash Element TD or variations from other developers like GEMCRAFT Chapter Zero.

What we’re trying to say here is that this is the gaming site behind one of the forces behind the casual gaming movement. Web Watch wouldn’t steer you wrong on this. Trust us – this stuff is good.

(Which reminds Web Watch – there’s a new version of DESKTOP TOWER DEFENSE available for Facebook users, with weekly updated maps. Thought you’d want to know.)

Tags flash, game, Internet, tower defense, video games, website

Internet News

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

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 10, 2010

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.

Tags Google, Internet, News, twitter

Funny Internet Websites

Online Greeting Cards: when you don’t really care about what the recipients think

Post author By web gangsta
Post date December 27, 2009

For those of you who like sending electronic greeting cards instead of either (a) driving to the local card shop and buying a card off the rack, addressing the envelope, and mailing it; or (b) calling the person you would send a card to and have an actual conversation with them — then Web Watch has just the site for you.

Tags holidays, Internet, website