Filed under: Photo, Web services, Yahoo!
Flikr'ing Yahoo Travel
Ah yes, I don't know if Flikr'ing qualifies as a real word, but that is what Yahoo is doing with its travel site. Yahoo!Travel Planner beta turns a mundane travel site into a very interesting picture and itinerary scheduling tool. Lets say you're interested in planning a trip to Las Vegas. Well, you search for Las Vegas on the beta Travel Planner site, and you get a listing of other people's public itineraries for Vegas. Click on one, and you get to see where they went, pictures they added to Flickr that are related, and so on. You can then copy that itinerary and book the same hotels, shows and restaurants, or modify them to your delight. Of course you can add your own travel plan and choose to make it public so everyone can see your exploits across the world.
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, ...
