Filed under: Internet, Social Software
TwitThis website button and bookmarklet debuts
If there was a category we could apply to things that spread faster than wildfire, the craziness that is Twitter would likely be the first example you could use for just such a category. One only needs to check our Twitter tag to find hacks like automatically twittering your blog posts, mapping out tweets and even putting Twitter on autopilot for you. But why stop there? New TwitThis buttons and bookmarklets are likely to take the web by an even bigger storm. As you might imagine, the button is ideal for placing on your website or blog, allowing readers to easily tweet (hopefully in a good way) about whatever you wrote. Fortunately, a full-on WordPress plugin is provided along with the raw code.The bookmarklet, on the other hand, should make things a lot easier for the avid Twitter user who can't wait for website owners to adopt the button. Both tools make use of TinyURL (though in our opinion, urlTea has some cooler things going on) to ensure the link you're tweeting stays intact.
All of this is provided for free, as we can't find any donation links, and TwitThis even surprsingly offers a support email in case you have questions or ideas.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
