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Vox: Six Apart's new blogging platform/social network
Ouriel Ohayon over at TechCrunch has the scoop on Vox (formerly known as Comet), a new hosted blogging platform from Six Apart, makers of Movable Type, TypePad, and LiveJournal, which will be launching tomorrow. Ohayon describes Vox as "a blogging platform for newbies (albeit with rich and deep functionality) and half social network" which features WYSIWYG editing, easy image, audio, and video uploading. Although the company already owns one of the largest and oldest social networks, LiveJournal, Vox seems to be Six Apart's round two bid against MySpace and other upstarts like TagWorld and AIM Pages. It will be a free, ad-supported service and blogs will prominently display a "Neighborhood," i.e. friends list plus other familiar features like Flickr and YouTube integration. For more screenshots of Vox, take a look at Ohayon's Flickr page.
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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, ...
