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Welcome to the Twitterverse
The explosion of the Twitter applications has sure arrived. Just when you thought that there were already too many twitter mashups and applications, another one pops up. If you aren't familiar with Twitter, it's basically a small blog tool that lets you enter small posts either from the browser window, Google Talk, or from mobile devices.
Ideacodes has just released a new Twitter fan tool, thet Twitterverse. It allows people to check out what words are commonly used through Twitter. They take data that is available from Twitter's public timeline and mash it up to create a clean Web 2.0 visual display --much like a tag cloud -- of the words by adjusting the type size depending on the usage amount.
Other Twitter tools include Triqqr, Twitterholic, TwitThis, Twittermap and Autotwit.
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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Emily Chang said 5:41AM on 4-10-2007
Chris,
Thanks for mentioning Twitterverse! We'll be adding lots of other views to filter words as well as some user personalization and other goodies. Hope you enjoy it.
Best,
Emily
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