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Digg buries Google Ads as lame, picks Microsoft as replacement
Digg, boy king of all social driven media, announced today that they are dropping Google Ads in favor of advertisements served by Microsoft. Odd, that; Given Digg's user base leans heavily away from the Redmond giants, and the move is likely to irritate a generous portion of Digg's healthy surfer population. The new deal with Microsoft will run over the next 3 years, with MS serving small contextual ads, much as Google does, or, rather, did. Microsoft is already serving up ads for Facebook, and losing Digg puts Google in a still dominant, but less enviable position.
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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jae said 2:08PM on 7-26-2007
can't say i really care one way or the other. i generally don't click the ads anyhow and find them obnoxious. although i suppose i'd rather give my money to google than to ms.
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Kroc Camen said 12:58PM on 7-26-2007
What I saw
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/60604823/
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