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Skobee: Make plans
Skobee is an interesting web
service that's supposed to make it easier to get people together. Having this very week utterly failed to organize a
gathering when an old friend came to town, this appeals to me immensely. The main concept is "start general and
get specific as needed": you add a bunch of people to an invite list with a vague plan ("dinner soon")
and as people get your invite they can suggest places and times ("Mexican, early next week") until a
consensus is reached ("Hacienda, 8pm Tuesday"). You can switch back and forth between suggestions and see
when friends are available, and it even has built-in local search and maps. Skobee also has a cool feature whereby you
can CC Skobee on an e-mail to a friend with a few keywords and it'll automatically set up an event on the web site. I'm
definitely trying this out the next time I want to arrange a get-together.[Via TechCrunch]
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, ...
