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TechCrunch buys InviteShare for $25,000
And odds are they will, now that TechCrunch is involved. The technology blog frequently writes about invitation-only online communities and services, many of which we could see added to the InviteShare pool.
Does this all sort of defeat the purpose of private beta tests where a limited number of individuals gets to test out a new product? Maybe. But the folks most likely to use InviteShare are the same folks most likely to be good beta testers; geeky and enthusiastic about new services.
TechCrunch's Mike Arrington says the site had been planning to create an invitation swapping service of its own when InviteShare launched. After writing a positive review of the site, Arrington admits that he may have driven up the value of the site his company eventually purchased.
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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, ...
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june said 10:40AM on 7-19-2007
No kidding about the navigation. It's shit.
And what is that site running on, a toaster? I'm getting 500s left and right.
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Shaun McAvinney said 10:59AM on 7-19-2007
Hey does anyone want to buy joostswap.com? 2000 bucks will do it. Seriously.
swapjoost@gmail.com, or the contact form on the site.
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jumanji said 1:51PM on 7-19-2007
No kidding about be difficult to navigate. And the site is painfully sluggish and intermittently returns '500' errors.
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