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Want to Plurk on Twitter? Feedtweeter has you covered
When Twitter users recently stumbled onto Plurk, it gained a big chunk of new users who like the interface, but want to remain active on Twitter as well. Now there's a solution, and it's called Feedtweeter. Right now, all it does is push your Plurks to Twitter, taking out any fancy formatting that wouldn't come across in a tweet. However, support is planned for feeding other services into Twitter, including Flickr, del.icio.us, and YouTube. Feedtweeter is currently in closed beta.Plurking to Twitter is attractive because they're both the same type of service: microblogging. But even though something you write on Plurk might be perfect for Twitter, pushing every link you post on del.icio.us into a Twitter account might be, well, spam. We've seen this before with other services that post to Twitter via RSS feeds, and we don't really need another one of those. What's useful here is realizing that Plurks might have formatting issues that make them hard to feed into Twitter, and offering a solution to the issue.
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, ...
