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eBay-Skype-PayPal integration extravaganza
What do you do when you own the world's biggest auction site, VoIP network, and online payment service? Hook 'em all together, of course. Today there's a bunch of news floating around about Skype being integrated with both eBay and PayPal. First is a little screenshot from Random Good Stuff that shows two new PayPal functions in the upcoming Skype 2.5, one for sending money via Skype and one for requesting money. Not exactly mind-blowing, but for people who conduct business over Skype it could definitely come in handy. Second is eBay's announcement last night that it would be integrating Skype into its auction pages. On June 19 a pilot program in 14 of eBay's auction categories will allow sellers to place a "SkypeMe" button on their auctions. Marshall Kirkpatrick at TechCrunch has a list of all 14 categories (obvious: wired networking routers, VoIP/Internet telephony; not so obvious: beds, silver coins, Lost in Space collectibles) and some thought on the offering. Like Marshall, I'm not sure how fast this will take off, if at all.
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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, ...
