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Niall Kennedy leaves Microsoft's Windows Live division
Niall Kennedy, the self-described "feed syndication geek" who left Technorati in April to become a product manager in Microsoft's Windows Live division, this week announced that he's leaving Microsoft to start his own company. Kennedy describes the reason for his leaving Microsoft in a blog post, saying, "Windows Live is under some heavy change, reorganization, pullback, and general paralysis and unfortunately my ability to perform, hire, and execute was completely frozen as well." Concerning his start-up ambitions he says, "I want to change the way the world thinks about personal data, publishing, and search and I might have the right opportunity to do just that." Valleywag has a short "exit interview" with Kennedy here.
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, ...
