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S3AjaxWiki: An AJAXy wiki hosted on Amazon S3
Uber-hacker and blogger Les Orchard saw the potential of Amazon
S3 early on and realized that even though it's not intended to be a consumer-facing service, with a little
JavaScript and ingenuity it can be used to host entire web applications. To that end he create S3AjaxWiki, a very slick proof-of-concept wiki that exists
solely on S3, no external sever required. For more information, take a look at Orchard's blog, where he's chronicling the project's progress.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
