Filed under: Web services, web 2.0
Pet Peeve: web service "welcome" lessons that disappear forever
We've all signed up for a service in haste only to realize our 15-minute lunch period is about to begin. You activate your account, you open it up, and there's this clever little intro presentation that begins... only you don't have time for that right now. So you close out the window and go away. Hours later, you return to learn. But the intro is gone, and like Homer missing Mr. T at the mall, your life is missing something that no help file can return.Or can it? I've been poking around the excellent WizeHive (which we've mentioned before) and noticed this, which set me upon the above mini-rant. I dig it when services bother with an intro at all, be it video, Flash or some AJAX business. But please put that somewhere easy to find should we need to bail upon logging in.
If you ever have this happen to you, I've added the intro screens for WizeHive in the gallery below. I did speak to the folks at WizeHive and suggested they put a link to these basic screens in their help pages.
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, ...
