Filed under: Fun, Internet, Web services, Freeware
Mobber adds chat to your pages
It's a little more than chat, really. Mobber adds a bar at the top of your web pages with tiny icons of people (those
visiting your page at the moment), and allows you to chat with them, as a group or individually. Mobber uses iframes,
so you Myspace cadets are currently out of luck (they promise a Myspace-friendly Mobber bar in the future, but we'll
see what Tom has to say about that). Of course, all this begs the question why you would do such a thing. On Myspace,
it makes sense. On a business page, I'm not so sure. Every day we see more of these little widgets for your pages, and
every day it seems like they want to be cool, but just try too hard. I'm not saying Mobber is useless, and I might give
it a go on some of my web pages, I'm just saying it's another verse in a song we've heard before... But it's free, so
why am I complaining?
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, ...
