Filed under: Fun, Internet, Web services
What if Web 2.0 concepts applied to everything in life?
Boing Boing posted a link to an amusing little video called Supermarket 2.0. The acting's nothing too special, and I can't help but wonder how this supermarket stays open with just 3 customers. But the concept is pure geek comedy gold. The store is completely web 2.0 compliant.
There are tags on all the products (H20, transparent, etc for water), RSS feeds for the eggs, and user comments on the milk. You can buy your products "Pandora-style." Just start with one object at the clerk will suggest other products you might want. Everything is free, but you have to accept a chocolate chip cookie for tracking purposes.
We'd make some point about whether we would actually put up with some of these practices in real life (such as allowing customers to examine your purchasing habits and buy items for you off your wishlist), but this is just a joke. Right?
There are tags on all the products (H20, transparent, etc for water), RSS feeds for the eggs, and user comments on the milk. You can buy your products "Pandora-style." Just start with one object at the clerk will suggest other products you might want. Everything is free, but you have to accept a chocolate chip cookie for tracking purposes.
We'd make some point about whether we would actually put up with some of these practices in real life (such as allowing customers to examine your purchasing habits and buy items for you off your wishlist), but this is just a joke. Right?
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, ...
