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Update on WeblogWire, the seven-day startup
I can't believe I forgot to follow up with this one: Remember WeblogWire, the experiment by entrepreneurs Jason Baptiste and Brian Breslin to get a profitable startup running from scratch in one week and on $500? Well, they didn't quite make their deadline, but they did do it for under half a grand. Yesterday WeblogWire made a "soft launch," with its official launch today, about a week behind schedule. Even at two weeks, it's an impressive feat, but what exactly is WeblogWire? Well, it's a gateway between bloggers and PM firms, allowing press releases to much more quickly make their way onto blogs, a steadily more influential corner of the media. The service is free for bloggers to join, and PR folks can submit press releases for an introductory $49 fee ($99 after this week). Right now there's already quite a few press releases on the service, which currenly only has a Technology category (which suits me just fine).
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, ...
