At least now we know the reason for those hundreds upon hundreds of spam-emails we receive every day.
Sure, we knew the spammers were making money (or they wouldn’t be doing it), but now we have a better idea of exactly how profitable spamming can be, if you have the right product to sell.
Try $4,000 a day, or more.
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One of the more popular – and free – online dating sites, OK CUPID, wants to be sure that you are able to land the date that you’re trying to get.
It makes their site more helpful, and drives more traffic to them. Can’t blame them for trying.
So after analyzing over 500,000 “first contact” messages that passed through their site, here’s OK CUPID’S TOP SEVEN TIPS FOR LANDING THAT FIRST DATE.
In other words, follow these rules and maybe your first message to that potential new BFF may actually get a reply. Be sure to click through to the OK Cupid site for all the detailed charts, graphs, and percentages:
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How much does THE INTERNET KNOW ABOUT YOU?
Quite a bit, actually.
Visiting this site will display a list of all the most popular websites that you’ve visited.
The question is, how does this website even know? And will disabling JavaScript or anything else keep this from happening?
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The hard part about playing Hasbro’s MONOPOLY is trying to find other people who are willing to play with you.
All your friends who normally love to play games all complain that it takes too long to play, or nobody really wants to be banker, or your rules are different from the way want to play.
Web Watch says that you can leave those friends behind.
Because now Hasbro and Google have teamed up to produce a terrific interactive use of Google Maps called MONOPOLY CITY STREETS that takes the game of Monopoly and applies it to any city in the world, and you can play along at home.
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As we become more-and-more invested in using the Internet and other new technology, more and more things are becoming obsolete as they are being rendered useless.
Payphones? No longer needs as everyone has a cell phone.
Telephone books? There’s a huge cutback on printing and distributing them as everyone just looks numbers up on the Internet or calls 411.
Ethernet cords? Why bother running a 20′ long cable from the wall to the kitchen table if you can go wireless?
In that vein, the Telegraph has decided to put together their list of 50 THINGS THAT THE INTERNET HAS KILLED.
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Here’s an update to a Web Watch posting from a few months ago on 10 Ways To Be a Facebook Offender.
It seems that CNN has taken that idea and twisted it around a little bit, releasing their own list of 12 MOST ANNOYING FACEBOOK USERS. Perhaps you can recognize yourself or one of your friends in these descriptions:
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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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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:
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