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Fall your way to a high score in Plumet - Time Waster


Friday afternoon is not the time for a complicated Time Waster. What could be easier than racking up points by falling?

Guy walks over gap, gravity kicks in, guy falls. Down. And then down some more. Oh, snap! Guy scores massive points and takes over first place on the leaderboard! That's as complicated as it gets in Plumet (clearly the old Anglo-French spelling).

As you fall, you'll level up and unlock additional features - like a slew of additional characters so you can retry your epic descent as a ninja, Santa Claus, or an alien (among others).

The controls are simple, and easy to do while you pound your celebratory week-ending Guinness: left and right to move and down to roll. Yes, rolling is sweet and extra sweet if you're a ninja, but it can get you into trouble. Time it wrong when the scenery starts speeding by and you'll be squashed against the top of the screen in the fetal position.

Filed under: Business, Developer, Internet, Web services, VoIP

VON Con starts today

voice over net conferenceThe Voice Over Net conference starts today in Boston. Featured speakers for the event include the Vice Chairman of AOL, Ted Leonsis, CEO and publisher of Washington Post and Newsweek Interactive, Caroline Little, as well as the CEO of BitTorrent, Jason Krikorian. This is the tenth year for the Voice Over Net Conference. The conference will go over the full spectrum of IP communication offerings providing massive amounts of industry insight and education.

The Von fall conference will be held from September 11-14 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. It features speakers from Skype, Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, Vonage, Verizon, Earthlink, Time Warner, TMobile, Cingular, Motorola, and Hewlett Packard.

There are also rumors around new product announcements at the event including Yahoo's addition of free conference calling to its Messenger with VoIP service via a free plug-in.

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