Filed under: Fun, Web services, VoIP, Social Software
Multiuser Google Earth with Skype = Unype
What happens when you mix up the ever popular Skype, with Google Earth? Well, you get Unype, an interesting virtual world mashup application. With Unype, users can utilize Skype's chatting and VoiP with Google Earth to chat and share Google Earth sessions with other users that have the same applications installed at their end.
To get up and running, users have to install a Windows PC application running locally, and connect to both Skype and Google Earth. Once the Unype application is up and running, users will have access to the Unype server, which then interacts with local copies of both Google Earth and Skype. When connected to the server, users will be able to see other users that are active in the virtual world. Unype then lets users chat or call each other to communicate, or click on other user's information to be transported to their location in the world.
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, ...
