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Mashup developers, its time to make some serious cash
If you are a mashup developer, there is no time like the present to make some cash for your creations. Mashups are not only giant part of the Web 2.0 landscape, but a number of companies are recognizing this, and dipping into their corporate pockets to award creativity and development skills. Ok, so it's cheaper for these companies to run outside contests than to actually develop their own mashups in house, but if you are already fooling around with mashups, or want to get into it, these contests are great to get involved in.
Current mashup contests include a $10,000 pot from Voxbone, $10,000 to develop a PayPal Facebook App, and a trip to Prague from Skype.
If any DLS readers have developed a cool mashup, feel free to share it with us.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
