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ReadBurner: Meme tracker based on Google Reader shared items
Here's how it works. Developer Alexander Marktl has taken the shared item feeds from a number of well known bloggers.. ReadBurner examines those feeds and determines which items are being shared the most often. You can sort the list by Currently Popular, Popular This Week, Most Popular All Time, or Most Recent.
ReadBurner is still in pretty early Alpha testing. Up until yesterday the site didn't even have a registered domain. But if you're the sort of person that can't get enough of Techmeme and other news tracking sites, ReadBurner might be worth keeping an eye on.
[via Mashable]

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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, ...
