Sticker for back of the Apple Macbook:
“Snow White holding a Poison Apple”
Perhaps you’ve run into this issue yourself: you’re happily cruising around the Internet using Internet Explorer 8 or Internet Explorer 9 – most likely in Windows Vista or Windows 7.
Everything seems fine for pretty much every website you hit.
Until you visit a website… like DISNEY.COM… and you are shown a mobile version of their site.
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Core i7 Processor i7-2600K 3.4GHz 8MB CPU
Have you purchased a computer lately?
Once you get past the initial “MAC vs Windows” discussion, the choices typically come down to price variations. Web Watch has always said — and it’s been holding true for the past 20 years or so — that the “ideal” computer that any computer nerd would want will cost about $2,000.
You’d be surprised that the $2k number holds up, even in today’s retail environment where a decent home computer can be had for around $500. Note that we said that this was a computer ideal for a computer nerd, not just any machine that would get somebody through the next two years of English class at the local university.
And that’s because that $2000 computer is one that is going to last for a number of years because it has all the bells and whistles for today, and will likely not need to be upgraded anytime soon.
But Web Watch understands that not everyone has $2k in their back pocket. Which brings up that more important question: if you had limited funds with which to buy or outfit a computer, WHAT SHOULD THE MONEY BE SPENT ON?
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In their 12th annual study of over 30,000 people regarding BUSINESS REPUTATIONS AND PUBLIC PERCEPTION, Google ranked first.
What exactly is “business reputation”? That’s what the public views as social responsibility, emotional appeal, quality of the product, financial performance, and other touchy-feely elements that could lead an individual investor to put some money into a company’s stock.
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:
How did we know?
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YouTube: An Insider’s Guide to Climbing the Charts
How much money is Rebecca Black making with her YouTube video FRIDAY? That seems to be the question on everybody’s mind these days, regardless of what they think about the quality of her song.
As WEB WATCH COVERED PREVIOUSLY, YouTube videos can make hundreds of thousands of dollars for their owners.
So when we see reports that Friday has only earned around $45,000 so far, Web Watch begins to question who is right when it comes to calculating payouts and royalty checks for viral YouTube videos. So let’s take a look at this again, shall we?
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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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If you’re a fan of Neal Patrick Harris (and frankly, who isn’t these days?), then you know that he starred in a web feature entitled DR HORRIBLE’S SING-ALONG BLOG by Josh Whedon.
If you’re not a fan of NPH, then re-read the above paragraph to know what Web Watch is talking about. Here – take a peak at the trailer:
Got it?
Secrets of the Jeopardy Chamions
Web Watch is going to followup yesterday’s JEOPARDY post with this one, regarding WHICH SEARCH ENGINE WOULD WIN JEOPARDY!?
First, let’s consider the average human contestant on the game show. The average contestant only buzzes in and answers about 60% of the questions correctly.
Ken Jennings, Jeopardy! superstar, was able to buzz in with a whopping 79% success rate.
So how do today’s search engines fare?
