Filed under: Audio, Microsoft, Search
Is Microsoft about to purchase SeeqPod's assets?
Now in an interview with Wired, SeeqPod's CEO has confirmed that the company has been talking to Microosft for the past year. No deal has been signed yet, and no cash has changed hands. But it looks pretty likely that something is going on here.
SeeqPod made a name for itself as a music search engine that would scour the web for MP3 files, letting you play them in a Flash based player. While the site never hosted any copyrighted files itself, it made it possible to find and play thousands, if not millions of illegally uploaded media files. Somehow I doubt Microsoft will purchase SeeqPod and relaunch the site using the same business model. But SeeqPod's search tools could be repurposed to help users discover and play legal audio, video, and other rich media content from around the web if Microsoft or another company with the right know how decides to put SeeqPod's algorithm to a different use.
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, ...
