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Celebrities’ Narcisstic Twitter Obsession

The British Gossip website HOLY MOLY has come up with their own CALCULATION TO DETERMINE A RATING FOR HOW NARCISSTIC A CELEBRITY IS BY USING TWITTER. 

When looking at a celebrity’s Twitter account, the celebrity is labeled as a “narcissitic tool” if they have more followers than they are following others.

The equation is

100-((100/# of followers) * # of following) 

Using this equation, here are the top 20, along with their Twitter Narcissism rating.  For those interested, Holy Moly has included a handy spreadsheet for you to see their full list, as well as add your own friends and family.

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Your Password Sucks

Jimmy Ruska was able to obtain some hacked database files from MySpace, phpBB, and Singles.org. 

These files contained basic user and password information, resulting in 116,782 passwords being available for analysis.  These files were from early 2009.

Here is a quick look at some of the information that Jimmy found about what THE MOST COMMON PASSWORDS ARE:

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List of Facebook Statistics

A few days ago in talking about how Disney is handling their new D23 community with regards to how large companies deal with fan clubs, Web Watch mentioned that Coca-Cola was the #2 most popular fan page on Facebook behind Barack Obama.

Since then, some have asked what the rest of that breakdown was.  So here is a LIST OF FACEBOOK PAGE STATISTICS.

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Funny Websites

Rules of the Internet

In case you were wondering, THE INTERNET DOES HAVE RULES. 

Sure, some would say that the Internet should be like the wild west of old, with the whooping and the hollering, the rustling and the stampeding… but all that is so 1998.

Still, there are a few Internet rules that should be shared and noted. One in particular, as it was brought up by someone after looking at the Lightning McQueen autopsy from yesterday.  Yes, that is Rule #34.  We’ll get to that in a moment.

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Why You Hate That Website

You hate that website because they came up with a way to make money off of their site and you haven’t figured out how to do the same thing with yours.

Two new book deals were announced today, both of them are based on websites previously featured here on Web Watch:

The BUSINESS INSIDER is reporting that Maxime Valette and Guillaume Passaglia’s website F*** MY LIFE, which is based on its own French website and book, is going into book form and will be published  in July 2009.  Not a bad way to turn someone else’s misery into dollars.

To top that off, another website that is based on reader’s submissions – THIS IS WHY YOU’RE FAT, is also getting the book treatment.  At the very least, they were upfront about saying that was what they were going to do — upfront to those who bothered to read the fine print, that is.

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SideTaker.com – Whose Side are You On?

You know why those weekday afternoon television judge shows are so popular?  Because everybody likes to hear other people’s dirty laundry and then voice an opinion on it by yelling at the TV.

Of course, yelling at the TV doesn’t effect the outcome of the situation.

So if you are looking for a place where you can hear an argument and take a side, you’ll want to check out SIDETAKER. 

If you are having an argument with someone and just can’t come to an amicable agreement, why not take your case to the Internet and have other people decide who is right and who is wrong. 

Some of the questions that are posed are relatively benign:

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10 Most Expensive Domain Names

ABC News has reported the TOP TEN MOST EXPENSIVE DOMAIN NAMES EVER (based on cash purchase amount):

  1. Fund.com, $9.99 million
  2. Porn.com, $9.5 million
  3. Diamonds.com, $7.5 million
  4. Toys.com, $5.1 million
  5. Vodka.com, $3 million
  6. CreditCards.com, $2.75 million
  7. Computers.com, $2.1 million
  8. Seniors.com, $1.8 million
  9. DataRecovery.com, $1.66 million
  10. Cameras.com, $1.5 million
  11. Tandberg.com, $1.5 million

Based on the listings shown at DOMAIN NAME JOURNAL‘s year-to-date sales charts, if you have a domain name that you’re trying to sell – the place to do so appears to be SEDO.COM.

Some of this year’s highlights:

  • wife.com – $100,000
  • FineWatches.com – $40,450
  • peeing.com – $30,000

Big money from 2008 went to FinancialAid.com – $480,000

And if you own your own name’s domain name, keep it.  Last year, pete.com ended up selling for $18,000.

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Legacy Locker – In Case of Emergency

A friend of mine recently visited his parents and they had “the talk” with him.

The Talk consisted of who the accountant was, what the lawyer’s contact info was, where copies of all the Important Documents were, and so on. Just In Case something were to happen.

The parents were thorough – every month they sent a CD backup to the safe deposit box with electronic copies of vital accounts, usernames, and passwords that would be needed In Case Of Emergency.

LEGACY LOCKER is a bit like that emergency backup CD, except that all that important information is stored online.  Their marketing material says that “Legacy Locker is a safe, secure repository for your digital property that lets you grant access to online assets for friends and loved ones in the event of death or disability.”

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