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Microsoft hires Omniture to spice up Zune Marketplace
by David Chartier Feb 7th 2007
What's a giant mega-corporation with a struggling digital download store to do to bring some zest into the venture? Why, hire one of the most prominent providers of business optimization software, of course! Forbes is reporting that Microsoft has hired Omniture to analyze and breath some life into the Zune Marketplace. From a Microsoft spokesman: "Omniture helps us understand what our customers care about, continually allowing us to improve the online experience and provide the best possible content and services."One can only speculate as to what Omniture and Microsoft will cook up - so why not take a crack at it? To the Zune users, and specifically the Marketplace shoppers in the audience: put yourselves in Omniture's shoes. What would you change about the Zune Marketplace and experience?
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, ...
