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Top 100 Things Teens Search for Online


Symantec has released their list of the TOP 100 SEARCH TERMS TEENS USE ONLINE.

This list is from data tracked between February 2009 – July 2009, and comes from registered users of Symantec’s OnlineFamily.Norton, a service that parents can use to restrict or monitor their children’s Internet use when the parents are not available to look over their children’s shoulders.

The top 25 search terms from the list are:

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Internet shopping Websites

SWOOPO – A Cheaper(?) Alternative to eBay

If you are eBay auction-addicted, but are looking for a new way to find some high-end items relatively cheap, then SWOOPO may be the auction site for you.

Like eBay, it’s an online auction site.

But unlike eBay, where eBay makes money from the seller (auction posting fees) and from the buyer (taking a percentage of the final auction price), Swoopo uses a slightly different pricing model:

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Internet shopping Websites

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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Internet

Preserving Email in a Time Capsule

As we covered in Web Watch back in November 2005, FORBES MAGAZINE CREATED AN EMAIL TIME CAPSULE PROJECT.

We here at Web Watch thought we’d revisit the FORBES TIME CAPSULE to see how it went.

For those of you who weren’t following Web Watch back then, Forbes took a month to collect over 140,000 messages and set up a system to deliver those messages up to 20 years later.

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Funny Internet

Who Are These Guys?

Remember a few years ago when Web Watch was one of the first to bring to you ONE RED PAPERCLIP, Kyle MacDonald’s quest to trade up from one red paperclip all the way up to a house? 

If you haven’t followed the completion of the story, Kyle did succeed in finally getting a house… along with a book deal, speaking engagements, and a possible movie out of the whole thing.

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Gadgets Internet shopping

Finally! A Reason to Buy a GPS – Custom Voices!

If you have been looking for a reason to get a TOM TOM or other standalone GPS navigation unit, here’s an update to a topic covered in Web Watch many, many moons ago:  HOMER SIMPSON IS NOW AVAILABLE TO GUIDE TOM TOM USERS TO THEIR DESTINATIONS.

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food Internet

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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Gadgets Internet News

Are You An Extreme Techie? Here’s Proof…

Nielsen recently did a survey that revealed who the “Extreme Techies” are.

ARE YOU AN EXTREME TECHIE?

The study was conducted for the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing, and as such meant that the focus of the study was going to be all about online video – who watches it, and how.