Filed under: Fun, Internet, Web services
Social voting with Jyte
Jyte doesn't do much beside providing a little fun during your downtime. It lets users claim something they have to say about friends, family, movies, music, virtually anything, then have other users vote on it. If you want to make a comment on how the commercials at this year's Super Bowl were nothing to write home about, and see how many people agree or disagree with your comment, Jyte lets you do it. It's basically another way to add a little social networking into your arguments. The service launched last week and has over 1,100 claims in such topics as food, web, politics, coffee and music. Jyte was created by JanRain, who make identity services for the web using OpenID protocols, which make use of in Jyte.
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, ...
