Filed under: Internet, Video, Web services
blinkBox: add your message to embeddable video clips
Here's a novel way to get people to buy or rent movies from your website. Let them send clips from popular films as custom video greeting cards.blinkBox is an online video site with a small selection of popular movies and TV shows available for download. But the site's most interesting feature is the ability to take clips from selected videos, add a message to the beginning, and share the clip with your friends.
You're supposed to be able to embed the clips on your blog or web page as well, but we couldn't get that to work. (Neither could NewTeeVee or TechCrunch). So you'll have to check out our special message to you (and John Malkovich) at blinkBox's site.
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, ...
