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Fold - Another Web Desktop
by Jason Clarke May 10th 2006
Brad Isaac over at Achieve-IT! points to Fold, a new up-and-coming "web desktop" (currently in beta) that offers portable desktop-like functionality on a website. The feature list is fairly basic at this point, with the usual suspects present: RSS, notepad, calendar, weather and Flickr modules, but there are a couple of unique ones as well, specifically HTML and Flash containers.
The idea between the HTML and Flash containers is that simply put, if there is web content out there somewhere that you'd like to integrate into your Fold desktop, they are giving you the flexibility to do just that. I like it. Unfortunately, I'm still not a big fan of a web page that emulates a windowing system paradigm. I have no desire to drag little window containers around on a website. For now I'll stick with NetVibes or Google Personalized.
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, ...
