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Yahoo! opening up to developers
Yahoo! is the next big company planning on opening up its source code, giving application developers more power in creating tools that engage users. The company has already opened up access to their email letting third parties create widgets that access address books and mail services, but is planning on rolling it out on the Yahoo! homepage and other services. To a large part, the future of successful online services depends on companies listening closely to what their customers think. That's why many companies are handing over the keys to outside developers and letting them run with anything that makes people stay interacted with the site longer.
Yahoo!'s move is long overdue, but at least they are jumping in the game now to make their stickiness factor increase. We hope.
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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Jeremy Zawodny said 9:17PM on 9-12-2007
"planning on opening up its source code"? Where did you read that?
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