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Who bought Kiko? Tucows!

KikoOver the past two week there's been an enormous amount of buzz about Kiko, a Web 2.0 calendar whose high-profile sale on eBay for $258,100 sparked speculation about the possible burst of the second dot-com "bubble." What we didn't know until now is who bought Kiko: It's Tucows. Yes, it was the venerable shareware-archive-cum-domain-name-tycoon that bought the start-up's Ajax software, and in a post on the official Tucows blogs, Tucows President and CEO Elliot Noss explains the reasoning behind the purchase. "While there are a lot of little reasons, I'll cover a few of them in a moment, there is really one big reason why we bought Kiko," writes Noss, "We needed the functionality, quite desperately, inside of our email platform and it was going to take us a long time to get it. Especially at the level of sophistication Kiko has." He also cites Kiko's global user-base, mobile integration, and nice Ajax implementation as adding value to the purchase, and concludes, "we look forward to giving the existing customers an ever-improving user experience and look forward to bringing a great shared calendar to the millions of end-users and thousands of partners who use Tucows services today."

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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