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Monday, 11 November 2013

Posted by Paul Leadbeater on 13:40 in , , , | No comments
Oh the internet, a haven for fun; where would we be without the 'world wide web'?

So it's 21:00, your in bed and on your laptop but not tied yet, so you are just randomly searching on Google; constantly checking Facebook, while listening to music on YouTube. Surely there is more to do on the web? well there is.

Here is a list of websites that have proven to be quite interesting and entertaining

1- http://www.bored.com/fun/ just type in fun and you will get this in your Google search; a endless website of fun appears.

2-http://www.youtube.com/user/SearchStories Unfortunately Google does not allow you to create your own any more; however, there  are still plenty of these on YouTube just search for "Google Search Stories". They are interesting to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbprAKGAg8U

3- http://jabberwacky.com/ A site of conversation; check it out.

4-http://www.omg-facts.com/?nrm If you love learning you should take a look at this site. You would be guaranteed to learn a few things once you visit.

5- http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/ More than likely you should have heard of street view, but if you haven't, where have you been and seriously, what are you waiting for?

6-http://www.flipmytext.com/ have a look at your writing flipped in reverse.

7-http://www.papertoilet.com/ pointless and time consuming, but it will have your attention for at least a minute.

8-http://www.humanclock.com time watching just became interesting

9-http://www.mono-1.com/monoface/main.html deform a face; artistic and fun.



10- http://www.mcsearcher.com/ This is fantastic, create your own Google homepage.

11-http://www.cbfsms.com/ no credit, need to contact someone? no problem, free text messages here

12- http://www.randomwebsite.com/ The original Stumble upon; want to be sent to a random website? well check this out.

13- http://zoomquilt2.madmindworx.com/zoomquilt2.swf This is fantastic, very creative; however beware, it is time consuming.

14- http://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google_gravity/ The Google homepage, with added Physics.

15- http://www.omegle.com/ Fancy chatting with a random stranger? includes webcam.

16- http://www.earthcam.com/ This website is Amazing, watch live cameras from around the world, from big tourist attractions.

17- http://www.zefrank.com/dtoy_vs_byokal/index.html Make your own patterns, artistic and fun.

18-http://www.bareknuckles.org/bananafaces/index.html there really are some crazy websites out there.

19- http://www.zimm-co.com/PressTheSpaceBar/pressthespacebar2000.html How fast can you press the space bar?

20- http://www.instantsfun.es/ sounds, sounds and more sounds.

21- http://amanita-design.net/plachy_trpaslik/ Online games are not always interesting; however, this website has added intellect with one such game.

22-http://www.supercook.com/ Do not know what to eat? Want inspiration of what to cook? well as always the internet is here to help.

23- http://photofunia.com/ Want to add your face on a building? or even on a new body? take a look here; its very simple but effective.

Saturday, 2 November 2013

Posted by Paul Leadbeater on 04:30 in , , , , , , , | No comments


I have put together a list of the top ten most viewed websites of all time. I have used a couple of references from different websites to try and bring together this information: such as 'most popularwebsites' and Wikipedia.







At number one we have the social networking site Facebook. It was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerburg, it was initially made for Harvard students; but as Facebook's popularity grew it extended its reach to high schools and then anyone over the age of 13. At this moment in time Facebook is the most visited site on the web, the site had a reported 1.15 billion user’s active from March (Wikipedia, Facebook, 2013) the site is still growing and continues to be a social networking phenomenon.







Coming in at second place (only just) is the mighty surf engine giant Google. However Google is so much more than just a search engine, now with the ability to blog, share, create profiles and watch videos the mega giant is doing everything else, so its is understandable as to why it is so popular.



Youtube.com

Owned by Google and created by PayPal employees, YouTube is the largest video sharing website on the web. YouTube seems like a land of opportunity with people who have made thousands from their constant uploads of popular videos.


Videos that go viral are viewed millions if not billions of times, for example 'Charlie bit my finger' became so popular it now has 573,902,646 views. Some videos have even more, with 'PSY - Gangnam style' having over 1,789,567,178 views. Some of YouTube statistics can be found here, "YouTube has apparently more than 1 billion unique users visit each month".




Yahoo was founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, it is known for its search Los Angeles Weatherengine 'Yahoo search', but over time has developed a number of different features from yahoo mail, yahoo answers, yahoo weather and even yahoo finance. Did you know that Yahoo has 11,500 employees?




Is a Chinese web service provider, it was established in 2000 by Robin Li. The site offers many services such as a Chinese search engine, images and Baidu Encyclopaedia which is China's largest encyclopaedia. It is the main search engine used in China; in 2010, it is estimated that there were 4.02 billion search queries in China.

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