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Tworl: Chat with a stranger
Feel like talking? Nobody online? Well, there's always Tworl. With Tworl you enter a preferred age range and sex and it connects you with a random AIM who matches, or at least claims to. This seems a little scary to me, but the more adventurous may get a kick out of it. You can also add your screen name and vitals to the Tworl database to let other people be randomly connected to you. Pete Cashmore at Mashable gave the service a try, but found that none of the random people Tworl hooked him up with responded to his messages.
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, ...
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Pete Cashmore said 9:57PM on 7-18-2006
Guys, if you're going to mention me (and borrow my screenshot) you should at least link back to my post.
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Jordan Running said 9:59PM on 7-18-2006
Sorry, Pete--just an oversight on my part. Thanks for the heads-up.
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Pete Cashmore said 10:44PM on 7-18-2006
No prob - thanks for the fix. By the way, I saw that you'd inserted the link because there's a splogger reposting all your stuff and it showed up in my vanity feeds.
Finally, a use for splogs! :)
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