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Google Talk to work with AIM
It's just one line in a press release about Google's $1 billion
investment in AOL, but it's a good one for anyone who has gotten frustrated with having to run multiple IM clients,
kludge a link to Google Talk via Jabber, or just skip running Google Talk in favor of the dozen or so other IM clients
out there. According to Google, one ramification of the investment will be to allow "Google Talk and AIM instant
messaging users to communicate with each other, provided certain conditions are met." At this point, I have no
idea whether those conditions are technical, financial or both, but it makes perfect sense for the two to combine their
efforts — after all, AOL already has AIM and ICQ under its umbrella and interoperating. There's no reason not to
do the same with Google Talk (and, chances are, it'll make selling ads into the client a little easier as well).
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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, ...
