Filed under: Internet, Web services, web 2.0
Barnes & Noble goes Web 2.0
According to the Associated Pres, Barnes & Noble makes about 10% of its sales through the web. Probably the most noticeable (and most distracting) change is a huge section at the top of the page where new releases scroll past. You can hover your mouse over each book for more information.
While we're glad to see sites take advantage of new technologies to improve the shopping experience, we're not quite convinced Barnes & Noble's redesign fits the bill. The tag cloud might be useful if it weren't all the way at the bottom of the page where you'll only find it if you're looking for it. And as Read/WriteWeb points out, there are a few really useful features that are missing like recommendations and RSS feeds, both things that Amazon offers.
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, ...
