Tag: Internet

How much money can a Youtube video earn when it goes viral? Let’s start at $150,000

Post author By web gangsta
Post date July 2, 2010
2 Comments on How much money can a Youtube video earn when it goes viral? Let’s start at $150,000

Little Shop of Horrors soundtrack, with Steve Martin as “The Dentist”

One thing about YouTube that bothers Web Watch is the number of videos that parents film over their shoulder while driving their car down the road. Especially now as MORE AND MORE STATES — up to 29 as of this writing — ARE PASSING BANS ON TEXTING WHILE DRIVING more and more states are passing bans on texting while driving. For those Web Watch readers who were wondering, based on that link it looks like Ohio and Hawaii are the only two states with absolutely no laws on their books relating to driving while using a cell phone or texting.

It’s only a matter of time before DWV (driving while videoing) joins DWI and DWT as acronyms to avoid getting a ticket for.

But the threat of receiving a DWV violation may not deter enterprising, money-hungry folks from filming everything that happens to them and posting it on YouTube in the hopes that their video goes viral.

Today’s example is DAVID AFTER DENTIST.

Tags 10 Things, business, Internet, Video

Gadgets Internet News

“Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price” from NYTimes is #oldnews

Post author By web gangsta
Post date June 8, 2010

Time Magazine: Wired Kids

This week, the NEW YORK TIMES finally wrote an article about a study that WEB WATCH wrote about in a September 2009 piece entitled “MULTITASKING SUCKS”. Glad to see that the NY Times is on top of today’s news…

In the NYTimes article called “Your Brain on Computers – Attached to Technology and Paying a Price” (or, depending on which version you’re reading, also titled as “Your Brain on Computers – Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price”, take your pick), the NYTimes examines the impact that computers and portable gadgets have on people today, and whether being so surrounded by information and multitasking our way through the Internet marsh is worth it.

Tags Internet, iPhone, medical, News, nytimes, science, survey

10 Things Book Internet Websites

According to the AP Stylebook, they are spelled “website” and “e-mail”

Post author By web gangsta
Post date June 2, 2010

The Elements of Style

Proper spelling and pronounciation is a long-standing debate amongst techno-nerds. For example, is a GIF image pronounced “JIF” (like the peanut butter) or “GIF” (rhymes with “gift”)? We usually settle it by saying it both ways in the course of a graphic-related conversation so that nobody feels superior to another.

Spelling, however, can be dictated by a central authority. Most of us are familiar with Merriam Webster, or at least the Scrabble Players Dictionary (where you may not get the definition you’re looking for, but at least you’ll have the word spelled correctly for that triple-word score).

So when the new AP STYLEGUIDE was announced with new words and spellings, you can imagine how excited wordsmiths must feel, as if they received a new toy at Christmastime.

Tags 10 Things, Book, Internet, website

Funny Internet Video

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

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 17, 2010

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

Tags Internet, twitter, Video

Internet TV Video

Update to our Discovery Channel “Boom de ya da” Post

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 24, 2010

Earlier this month, Web Watch posted about parodies of the Discovery Channel’s BOOM DE YA DA commercial.

How could we not include THIS TRIBUTE TO WEB COMIC xkcd featuring online favs like Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton, which was based on THIS xkcd cartoon, based on the Discovery Channel commercial (shown below). Whew!

Tags Internet, reality tv, TV, Video

Internet Music Websites

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