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Embed maps with Ask City
One of the growing new trends in the online space has been embedding objects. From news feeds, twitter notifications, product recommendations and IM chats. Google has a great embeddable maps addition for the ever popular Google Maps. However, other major online mapping providers have been late to the game, Yahoo! and Microsoft included. Ask has stepped up to the game, and now offers embeddable maps. Simply search for your destination and click on the embed link. Ask City gives users the choice of embedding maps in three different sizes, small, medium and large.
Although their innovations sometimes seem to get overshadowed with larger Google and Yahoo announcements, it's always nice to see when a smaller online company like Ask steps up the game before larger veterans.
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, ...
