Filed under: Design, Blogging, Social Software
Automattic acquires BuddyPress social networking plugins
There's a placeholder page at BuddyPress.com right now, with the Automattic logo and a simple description of what BuddyPress does: transforming "a vanilla installation of WordPress MU into a social network platform." For an example of what that might look like, you can check out Peatling's work on chickspeak.com, built on BuddyPress. If you're a designer who likes the power and flexibility of WordPress, but you need to get outside the basic blog and put together a full-on social network, user profiles and all, this could be a great solution.
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, ...
