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CoolSW: Digg for software
Why exactly is Intel creating a social ranking system for software? The company has a vested interest in finding the next big thing in technology before anyone else. If the future is virtualization, mobile technology, or low-power PCs, the company wants to know. So what better way to find out where technology is headed than to find out what consumers are interested in?
The idea behind CoolSW started when Intel began asking employees what they thought about software companies last year. Intel opened the doors up to the public today. So far there's a few hundred submissions and votes, but we suspect that number will grow pretty quickly.
[via VentureBeat]

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 ...
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Chris Carey said 3:05PM on 10-08-2007
Or you could always use the infinitely cooler Wakcopa and automatically share your software and see what other people use.
http://www.noheat.com/2007/09/04/find-new-software-with-new-social-network/
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