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Google about to launch Google Talk IM and voice service?

GoogleThere's been buzz about releasing an IM product of some sort (other than the "Hello" client which doesn't really count... do you know anyone who uses it as their main chat protocol?), and now it looks like they've been spotted running a Jabber server. The Jabber Extensible Communications Platform (Jabber XCP) is open source technology, and presumably anyone with a Jabber enabled chat client (Trillian, GAIM, e.g.) could access the server -- not just users of the mythical Google IM client. Also, Jabber appears to have buzz as the platform of choice for transmitting voice over IM, which leads to the theory that Google plans a voice enabled IM product of some sort to compete with similar functionality in clients from Yahoo and MSN. Whatcha think? Is Google getting set to release a Skype-killer?
 

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The World's Hardest Game 2.0 - Time Waster

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, ...

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