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Another Twitter launches, this time it's called Yappd
Does Twitter really need competition? I suppose it's healthy, but why not try a new type of model that gets people pumped about your service?Twitter has a good thing going on, their text updating service is easy to use, effective, and it was first to market. Pownce, although a Twitter-esk clone, does provide a few exciting features like that ability to send files besides just text updates. This new release to market called Yappd, although cleanly built, really doesnt offer anything new or special besides picture messages.
With successful products, you are always going to get clones, and blatant rip offs. Check out this site that lists Twitter clones from Germany to China to Hungary.
[via TechCrunch]
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 ...
