Filed under: Internet, Yahoo!, Social Software
Yahoo! Kickstart: LinkedIn for college students and alumni
According to the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! execs are hoping to fill a niche somewhere in between Facebook and LinkedIn. The idea is that recent grads don't have all the work connections that LinkedIn users have. And they use Facebook for keeping up with friends, not professional contacts. We're not sure this is an actual niche and not just a marketing gimmick, but only time will tell.
Yahoo! is also reportedly preparing a new service that will let users indicate their physical location at any given time, letting web apps act accordingly. For example, if you're on your home or work computer you might want different settings than if you're using an iPhone.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
