Filed under: Audio, Business, Internet, Text, Podcasting, Blogging, Web services
Newsvine testing and interview
Last week Jason Calacanis did a little
Newsvine testing. A very interesting read from someone who has played with a lot of web toys just like that one...
I tried Newsvine, and found it to be a little lacking. Not in features necessarily (although not being able to link to
your own post is wack), but in polish. The UI is a bit cumbersome. The buzzword for cumbersome, so you know, is
"rich" or "deep." Mike D., from Newsvine, comments on Calacanis's blog the interface is designed to
reveal more features over time. That's true of most software, which doesn't make it better. At any rate, another
channel, Disinformation, has an interview with Calvin
Tang, co-founder of Newsvine available as a podcast. They even talk about scuba diving. Anyone out there using
Newsvine on a regular basis? Mine's superpixel.newsvine.com.[Thanks to Willy for the link]
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, ...
