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Not Twittered out? Try Twittermap
Any Twitter user knows how addicting and mostly pointless it can be. Add a dash of Google Maps mashup, stir, and you have Twittermap. Twittermap gathers the locations of the last messages from the Twitter community feed, and plots them on a Google Map. The result is a giant world map with points from current active Twitter users. Is it useful? No, it's just cool to look at what geographic areas other Twitter users are based in. You can also check out Geotwitter, another implementation of the same basic idea.
[via GoogleMapsMania]
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Len Steinmeier said 6:54PM on 3-17-2007
I was disapointed to find out I'm one of FIVE 'twits' within 200 miles of my home (using Twittermap)... Looks like Twitter hasn't really caught on in the southeast yet.
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