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xFruits: Do stuff with RSS
Thanks to a funny name, lack of descriptive text, and somewhat muddled English, it took me awhile to figure out what xFruits is. Basically it's a free web service that lets you do some interesting stuff with RSS feeds. Currently it has four functions: One lets you aggregate multiple RSS feeds into a single one, another (I think) republishes an RSS feed to a blog-like web page, another will take an RSS feed and turn it into a mobile-friendly web page, and the last will publish an RSS feed of all e-mail sent to an @xfruits.com e-mail address. We've seen all of these functions done before, but xFruits has the distinction of rolling them all up into one login. It also has a social aspect: The xFruiters page lists other xFruit users and what xFruits they've set up, along with the obligatory tag cloud. Judging from the front page, xFruit has a lot more functionality coming up, like "RSS to PDF," "RSS to Mail," and "File to RSS."
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 ...
