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Sphere blog search with data
Sphere is yet another blog search engine. Of course, there's a twist. Sphere can show
a bit more data surrounding a search, and allows you to better refine your search results. This sounds like iterative
improvements, but in fact, this is all handled quite nicely within their system. I had mixed results, to be honest. And
I couldn't seem to find all the cool data reportage some have shown, but I like the "related media" search
aspect. It'll show you podcasts, images, books (via Amazon), and news (via CNN) based on your search. Even better is a
bookmarklet from Sphere that'll let you pretty much take any web page, and perform a real-time analysis of links (not
content, which is iffy anyway), with blog search results for your review. As always, TechCrunch has more details,
and even an audio interview with Sphere's CEO Tony Conrad and advisor Toni Schneider.
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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, ...
