Filed under: Social Software, web 2.0
Friendster launches Developer Platform
Well, if you can't beat them, join them right? Facebook owes at least part of its success to the site's open platform for developing applications. Now Friendster is taking the same approach, not only by opening up its own developer platform, but also by signing on to Google's OpenSocial.
Friendster still has a long way to go. Right now, there only a handful of widgets available, compared with hundreds of Facebook applications. But if you want to add a photo slideshow, biorhythm chart, or even add a VoIP "call me" button to your Friendster profile, there are widgets that can help. In other words, we find ourselves much more tempted to actually use Friendster today than we did yesterday.
[via WebWare]
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 ...
