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Collaborative film reviews with Filmcrowd
Another collaborative ratings site, Filmcrowd (beta), is born. Filmcrowd is, as you might guess from the name, focused
on movies. Gibbity, which you can't guess from the title, is more of a games
site, but uses the same social aspect. The two sites are from the same folks, in fact. Tags and collaboration are the
key here. For instance, you can create a focus group of sorts, with users who find certain movies in common as their
likes or dislikes. Keep tabs on the group, and what they're reviewing, and get suggestions. Filmcrowd is young, so
there aren't as many reviews as say, Amazon (that's a joke really, Amazon has a wee bit of a head start). My favorite
tag has to be crap, which contains such winners as Alone in the Dark
and The Postman.
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, ...
