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.
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 ...
