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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.
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 ...
