Filed under: Business, Office, Web services
Who bought Kiko? Tucows!
Over the past two week there's been an enormous amount of buzz about Kiko, a Web 2.0 calendar whose high-profile sale on eBay for $258,100 sparked speculation about the possible burst of the second dot-com "bubble." What we didn't know until now is who bought Kiko: It's Tucows. Yes, it was the venerable shareware-archive-cum-domain-name-tycoon that bought the start-up's Ajax software, and in a post on the official Tucows blogs, Tucows President and CEO Elliot Noss explains the reasoning behind the purchase. "While there are a lot of little reasons, I'll cover a few of them in a moment, there is really one big reason why we bought Kiko," writes Noss, "We needed the functionality, quite desperately, inside of our email platform and it was going to take us a long time to get it. Especially at the level of sophistication Kiko has." He also cites Kiko's global user-base, mobile integration, and nice Ajax implementation as adding value to the purchase, and concludes, "we look forward to giving the existing customers an ever-improving user experience and look forward to bringing a great shared calendar to the millions of end-users and thousands of partners who use Tucows services today."
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 ...
