Filed under: Business, Internet
IM Etiquette
If you telecommute, you probably live in IM. Even if you don't live by the wire, it's easy to die by the wire, because IM's aren't saved as drafts (unlike those nasty emails you should never send). Stowe Boyd, CEO of Blue Whale Labs, has done what Letitia Baldrige failed to do: bring some civility to the land of OMFG's and WTF's. His Instant Messaging Etiquette just made it to the front page of digg (where maybe they could use a few tips as well), and it is worth every ACII character of a read.
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, ...
