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Microsoft inks Facebook ad deal

Microsoft-Facebook ad dealThe New York Times is reporting that Microsoft has inked a deal with Facebook to provide and sell ads on the social networking powerhouse. You'll recall that earlier this month Google inked a similar deal with MySpace to the tune of $900 million. The terms of the Microsoft-Facebook deal were not disclosed, but it is known that starting this fall Microsoft will be Facebook's exclusive ad provider at least until mid-2009, and Microsoft has stated that it would provide "graphical ad placements as well as automated text-based advertisements targeted to content, and over time, aggregate user behavior on an anonymous basis." Some analysts are describing the deal as a "consolation prize" after Microsoft's loss of MySpace to Google, but a Microsoft's Steve Berkowitz insists that it's "not comparable to the MySpace deal because we focused on the right economics for both parties."

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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, ...

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