Filed under: Web services, Yahoo!
Yahoo! Maps gets global satellite imagery
Yahoo! continues its slow
creep up on Google in the web services department with a significant upgrade to Yahoo! Maps. The major change in the new release is global satellite imagery
with, of course, an emphasis on U.S. cities. They've also added medium-resolution maps for cities around the world, and
developers will be pleased to know they've released Version 3 of the Yahoo! Maps API to take advantage of the new features. It's nice
to see the global maps and satellite images, but in the case of the latter, the resolution seemed was pretty lacking
for the sample searches I did. You can read more about the new release on the Yahoo! Search Blog.
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, ...
