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Facebook for sale
The battle for young
eyeballs isn't yet over. After Myspace, wacko interface aside, got bought by
Rupert Murdoch for $500 million, it seems everyone else wants a piece of that action. So here comes the new old kid on
the block, Facebook, now
officially for sale. BusinessWeek's astute observation that Facebook would be a match made in heaven with Viacom,
owners of MTV, VH1, and Nickelodeon. That's so obvious it hurts, but what remains to be seen is whether Viacom is
interested, or if they'll pay the nearly $1 billion bounty Facebook really desires. Wait, nearly a billion?
Yep, Facebook has already turned down a $750 million offer from before. They don't think too much of themselves, do
they? Then again, they beat MySpace in SEOmoz's Web 2.0 awards, so maybe they are worth it...
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, ...
