Filed under: Web services, web 2.0
TwitKu brings Twitter and Jaiku into one window
The "What Am I Doing" web-service arena has been pretty competitive, with comparatively-long-established Twitter seeing competition from Jaiku and Pownce. Off course, all the services have their own merits, however the decision on which network to use has been a hotly debated topic, with Leo Laporte (of This Week in Tech fame) famously leaving Twitter for rival Jaiku.
Whilst Jaiku offers the ability to import Twitter (and other feeds), the ability to interact with, and monitor, both services simultaneously has been limited. This is where TwitKu comes in - both services, with the ability to post simulataneously and monitor your contacts, in a single window. Whilst some of the Download Squad team are fans of service-specific clients such as Twitterrific, this is certainly a move in the right direction for those of us with Web 2.0 sign-up mania!
[Via TechCrunch]
[Via TechCrunch]
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, ...
