Filed under: Text, Web services, Social Software
Flagr, bookmarking the real world
Whenever I visit a new restaurant, I think wow, this place is pretty cool, I need to remember this. Then what do I do? I forget all about it. Ever had the same problem? Flagr to the rescue. Flagr is an application built using RadRails (which for this post is unimportant), but more importantly integrates Google maps and your flags in a Flickr-ish way. Flagr will let you tag locations from your mobile phone, by sending a quick email. You can also add video to a location for that meta-vodcast-blogging-meets-real-world you've been itching to do. You'll never forget where something is or what you found there again. Flagr is of course a social "flag" sharing site, so you can find places based on other peoples tags and flags. That has a nice ring to it. Run the flag up that pole Johnny.
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, ...
