For the last  few years we have all been greatly entertained by the funny, inspiring, educational and sometimes viral videos. Now we’ll see if real time affects our time spent on this addictive social phenomena.

YouTube Blog: YouTube is going LIVE.

It’s worth the time to learn how to use a new site to evaluate it’s contribution and value to your over all campaign.  The best sites are always both user AND reader friendly.

I usually advise clients to set up 5 basic Social Media sites and then add from there if they want more exposure. The 5 basic sites I always recommend are:

1. Facebook Page

2. Twitter

3. You Tube

4. LinkedIn

5. Word Press Blog

All of theses are easy to set up, very familiar to most everyone on the internet, and VERY search engine friendly. When anyone searches for your name, or the name of your business, the YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn sites are the first things to pop up, even sometimes before your web site.

So don’t neglect your Social Media or you’re missing prime opportunities to be found by new clients and friends who support you.

Doug Engelbar and the World's First Computer Mouse

• While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.

• The world’s first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.

• The Dvorak keyboard is more efficient than QWERTY. The standard “QWERTY” keyboard was not designed with ease of typing in mind. Rather, it was designed to keep early typewriters from jamming. Unlike QWERTY, the Dvorak keyboard was scientifically designed for increased speed and accuracy. It is estimated to be 12 to 20 times more efficient than QWERTY

• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

• In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn’t considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator.

• The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.

• Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.

• There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.

• The first banner advertising was used in 1994.

• E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.

• The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.

• By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the internet.

• There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the internet.

• Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is ‘Crash Course’!

• Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was a college drop out.

• There are approx. 6,000 new computer viruses released every month.

• If you want to get a computer aquarium, then you must get the Macquariums which are aquariums made from old Macintosh computers.

• It is believed that the first computer virus released in the world was a boot sector virus, which was created in the year 1986 by Farooq Alvi brothers. It was designed by them to protect their research work.

• The group of 12 engineers who designed IBM PC were called as “The Dirty Dozen”.

• The quintessential command ‘Ctrl+Alt+Delete’ was written by David Bradley.

• Sweden is a country with the highest percentage of internet users (75 per cent).

• I am sure most of us must have played the game Tetris. Since the time it was created in early eighties, it has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, which made it’s creator richer by $8m.

• Almost all computer users must know how destructive a virus can be. But then, it would be interesting to know that a virus cannot corrupt your PC on its own. It corrupts your system only when you activate it by either downloading infected files from the internet or by sharing these infected files.

• Computer circuitry can be destroyed by static electricity, it is so mild for humans that they don’t even feel it.

• “Stewardesses” is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

1. It’s always in the same place exactly where you left it the night before, it never wanders away by itself.

2. It’s very colorful, and the screen is very pretty.

3. It never forgets who you are, in fact it probably has the same name as you.

4. It has x-ray vision and can see an internet connection, even when you can’t.

5. It knows everything and can find everything better than any teenager.

6. You can play music and watch DVDs without it criticizing your taste in music and movies.

7. It’s more versatile that than any other machine being able to access porn, literature, rocket science or facebook with just one click.

8. It’s very, very sophisticated it knows more languages than most of us have ever hear of like html, java, php, xml, C++, Cold Fusion, as well as English, without ever asking for caviar or champagne.

9. You never need to change the oil or check the fluids.

10. It makes itself available to you, day or night, 24/7 and it never says to you, “not now honey, I have a headache”

Actually I think personal computers (macs included) are the most amazing tool of our lifetime. You can write a book, produce a business plan, edit a movie, instantaneously send mail, or be half way around the world with a click of a button. Almost all information known to humanity is available to you, like never before in history.

So show a little appreciation….because it’s a proven fact… that if you love your computer, your computer will love you. And probably the only thing more reliable than that is your dog, but you don’t ever need plastic bags to pick up after your computer.