Filed under: Blogging, Web services, Humor, Microblogging
Woofer's 1400-character minimum makes Twitter look puny
This definitely raises some questions. For example: is this a joke? How is macroblogging different from, you know, blogging? Yes, it's very possibly a joke: popular "woofs" include the entire Gettysburg Address and selections from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. And it's different from blogging because standards are lower. In fact, a woof has the same low standards as a tweet, but without the severe character limitation that makes tweets pithy and interesting. Fortunately, Woofer isn't looking to be taken seriously: the about page describes it as a humorous homage to Twitter.
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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sideffects said 10:50AM on 8-31-2009
That's stupid. It won't last.
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Mason said 4:57PM on 8-31-2009
That's as awesome as hugeurl.com and freakinghugeurl.com and you know it.
Rocketboy said 10:52AM on 8-31-2009
Gee, the logo is just a wee bit twitter like. They might want to re-think that.
And Sideffects, it's really no dumber than twitter.
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jonathands said 4:25PM on 8-31-2009
some people have no sense of humor....
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shibathedog said 1:20PM on 8-31-2009
I like it. It should cut down on the massive stream of BS that you get on twitter. Still won't use it though.
Death to Twitter, Long Live RSS.
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Cunk said 2:34PM on 8-31-2009
SEVEN...MINUTE...ABS
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