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Web 2.0 awards
File this under "somewhat suspicious." SEOmoz, a Seattle-based search engine optimization company, has their Web 2.0 award winners available. I say it's somewhat suspicious because 1) who cares what SEOmoz thinks, and 2) there's no year associated with the awards. Clearly these aren't from 1998, but even going to nominate next year's candidates doesn't give you a year. Maybe this is all a ruse, designed to increase traffic, add links, and possibly boost their search engine rankings? Nah, couldn't be.The one interesting thing about these "awards" is just that it's a good list for comparison. I don't agree with all the winners, but I do appreciate the rationale has been given for each category. Perhaps even more useful is SEmoz's primer on Web 2.0 as they see it. If you know folks that have no idea what this Web 2.0 thing is about and you want to hype it up to the general masses, this page is where to send 'em. If you're over the whole Web. 2.0 hype, whatever you do, do NOT go to the awards page. It'll just depress you.
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, ...
