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Crowdstatus and Gridjit: Two new ways to look at Twitter
CrowdStatus makes it easier to make sure you don't miss tweets, by letting you organize your contacts into groups. Say you follow 100 people, but there are 10 people whose every word you want to read, another 10 who are usually good for a laugh, but aren't as critical, and 80 who you're just following to be polite since they already followed you. You can create three different groups and when you're in a hurry, just click the high priority group to display the latest messages from your top 10 list.
You can also share your group URLs with the world, letting everyone see the latest updates from Download Squad bloggers, for example.
Another tool we ran across which lets you visualize your Twitter messages in a new way is Gridgit. It's not quite as versatile as CrowdStatus, but Gridjit displays your latest messages according to user instead of in chronological order, making it easier to track the last few messages from each of your contacts. If you're willing to give up your password, you can also post to Twitter directly from Gridjit.
[via Blog Herald and WebWare]
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, ...
