Filed under: Internet, Social Software, Microblogging
Twitter working on 'interesting hacks' to evade Chinese and Iranian firewalls
He didn't go as far to say what these 'hacks' are -- he also said that the technology is being coded by third-party developers, rather than Twitter itself -- but he alluded to some kind of distributed, and perhaps Tor-like, anonymizing service: "Twitter is a network that is accessed in thousands of ways." -- Twitter is not just a website but a framework of Internet and mobile applications. Barring access to a handful of IP addresses or protocols isn't going to be enough if Twitter wants to get its service into the hands of those that need it most.
There was also admiration for Google's attack on China, but Mr Williams said that Twitter was too small to make a stand on the same scale. You have to give it to them though -- Google, Twitter, and any other liberal software company out there -- these are noble ideals for a damn corporation.
[via Financial Times]
Chromatic is one of the best time-wasters I've recently come across. It's all about the gameplay -- no Flash graphics here. You play a "circle" (it doesn't really have a name in the game). You move around with the arrow keys, and you change colors with Z, X, and C.
You can either be red, blue, or yellow, and you can switch at any time during the game. Each color has different capabilities -- yellow can double-jump, while red has a longer dash (which is like a forward sprint, activated by double-pressing DOWN).
Each ...
