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Vidmeter: tracking popular (but not always good) online videos
Well, if you want to get your finger on the pulse of what kind of user-generated content the kids are watching these days, you might want to check out Vidmeter. The site tracks the most popular videos (based on views and comments) at Atom Films, Break.com, Daily Motion, Google, iFilm, Metacafe, Myspace, Revver, vSocial, Yahoo, and Youtube.
The pages are ranked every hour, and you can easily track which videos are moving up and down in the rankings, although I'm not sure why you'd really want to know. And what does all this research show? That fake porn still tops the list. By a long shot. The most popular video today is "Chicks Gone Wild!" The still shot at the start of the video is of a scantily-clad woman, but the video itself shows a number of baby chickens, some disturbing computer generated imagery, and a tender moment between two dogs.
[Via Techscape]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
