Filed under: Internet, Yahoo!, Social Software
Yahoo! Kickstart: LinkedIn for college students and alumni
According to the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! execs are hoping to fill a niche somewhere in between Facebook and LinkedIn. The idea is that recent grads don't have all the work connections that LinkedIn users have. And they use Facebook for keeping up with friends, not professional contacts. We're not sure this is an actual niche and not just a marketing gimmick, but only time will tell.
Yahoo! is also reportedly preparing a new service that will let users indicate their physical location at any given time, letting web apps act accordingly. For example, if you're on your home or work computer you might want different settings than if you're using an iPhone.
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, ...
