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Favrd - Twitter with none of the "webcock"
Believe us when we say that we know you're sick of hearing about Twitter, but there's a good reason it's one of Download Squad's favorite toys. We often find out about new software on Twitter before it gets blogged anywhere else, and the readers reap all the benefits. And did we mention that some people's Twitter streams are flat-out hilarious? Favrd, a new service from Dean Allen, will help you find some of the best. It keeps track of which posts people are marking as favorites, so you only have to read the good stuff. Dean also uses a mysterious algorithm to filter out "webcock," a term he coined to describe "online-marketing, web-strategy, killer-startup cheerleaders/water-carriers." This is sure to offend some people, but it keeps the focus of Favrd on people who use Twitter to entertain. To put it another way, a way that probably wouldn't make it past Dean's algorithm, Favrd is crowdsourcing comedy, and everybody wins.
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, ...
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BrianM said 3:21PM on 5-16-2008
Quick comment folks.... anytime you start out with "We know you're all sick of hearing about XXXXX, BUT..." Stop. Consider that if you're aware enough to point it out, that it's 2~3 times more true than you even know.
Talk about driving home the point that I want to have absolutely nothing to do with the... um, thing. Keep posting, it'll only make others sick of hearing about it... or worse, push them to the point that they deem your blog trash. Not worth the time to read.... no visits, no need for the blog, no money for you. I'm about there already.
Please, stop with the twitter items. For the Love of All That is Good!
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jared said 9:38PM on 5-18-2008
This twitter thingy is being exploited by lots of marketers..soon it will also be used for sharing viruses....
http://hubpages.com/hub/AVG-Virus-Protection
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Marshall Kirkpatrick said 7:47PM on 5-16-2008
I noticed there was no RSS feed for that service, so I scraped one with Dapper and ran it through FeedBurner - if you'd like to subscribe.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/MostFavrdTweets
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