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Ning: Marc Adreessen takes on Craigslist, flickr and just about everyone else
It's been a long time since Netscape creator Marc Andreessen shook up the world, but he's at it again, this time with Ning, an all-purpose social-software platform. Ning lets anyone create or contribute to an application, and apps are then ranked by popularity in the Ning "pivot." In theory, great apps with real appeal will rise to the top, while the crass and puerile ones will sink like stones. However, since Ning is new, and crass and puerile apps unfortunately tend to appeal to a broad cross-section of the net-using populace, some of the more popular apps on Ning currently include "Choose Your Beer," which lets you rank one beer against another, over and over again, "This or That," which ranks random random items against one another, and "Tailrank," the less said about which, the better. Ning's got potential, but right now, that's all it's got. As with any social app, it needs to reach critical mass to really work. If it does, it could be a hit. If not, at least we'll know definitively that net users prefer Blatz Beer over Pilsner Urquell.
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, ...
