Filed under: Internet, Web services, Google
Filed under: Fun, Games, Internet
A few months back we realized that we don't know Kentucky from Kansas thanks to Statetris, an online game that combines geography with Tetris. At the time, all we could do is bungle the placement of US states. But now that Statetris has gone international, we realize just how little we know about world geography.Filed under: Fun, Games, Internet, Kids, Blogging, Web services, Social Software
One thing that tends to take a while in the Web 2.0 market is the expansion to non-English speaking markets. Even Google is guilty of waiting a while to open up services for non-English speaking residents of the world. Filed under: Internet, Kids, News, E-mail, Mozilla, OpenOffice.org, Open Source
French authorities plan on passing out open-source software to incoming high school freshman next year. 
Filed under: Windows, Microsoft, P2P
by Chris Gilmer Oct 18th 2006
Microsoft is doing some connecting with leading edge suppliers in Europe to boost its Live service. Soon 375 millions people are going to be able to IM each other using mobiles or PC's though a deal with Orange in France. The new service will be called Orange Messenger by Windows Live. The application will essentially allow Orange customers to either use the IM tool online, or on their mobile devices to connect to other Windows Live Messenger users. Microsoft and Orange will be joining users in Spain and the UK as well in the near future. Microsoft chose to work with Orange because they are the leading edge supplier in mobile communications in Europe, and there are not many leading edge communication developments being made in the US. Filed under: Internet, Web services, Google
In his 2006 New Year's address, French President Jacques Chirac apparently focused on Quaero, a new
search engine being built by "some of the top tech labs in France and
Germany." The project is ambitious, to say the least, reportedly providing
"an array of multimedia tools for identifying and indexing images, sound and text," including "a
powerful translating tool which will be able to 'understand' audio as well as text," and available on mobile
devices and digital TVs. Beyond that, the article is tantalizingly vague, and includes this less-than-promising
passage: "The ambitious project will probably not be available anytime in the
near future. Quaero is still in the earliest stages of development, so early that none of the major players have yet
ventured a guess as to how much the project might cost. When Quaero does launch, it
will have a great deal of catching up to do." Good luck with that, Chirac.
After spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.
It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.
Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.
Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.
Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.
Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.
This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.
If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.
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