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SXSW 2009: building web communities, Threadless-style



Threadless is more than a t-shirt company, as Grant Robertson found out when he chatted with Jeffrey Kalmikoff. Jeffrey explained how Threadless works, and how they've managed to build a community of nearly a million people who submit and vote on awesome new shirts. And that's just registered users, not including the thousands who just use Threadless to buy the hottest new designs. Stay tuned to Download Squad for more interviews straight from our team at SXSW.

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Extratasty: Drinking the Web 2.0 way

ExtratastyThere are a lot of drink recipe sites and some of them will give you a list of drinks you can make based on your list of what your bar is stocked with. However, none of them were quite able to get it right until Extratasty. From skinnyCorp, the makers of Threadless, Extratasty has all the Web 2.0 fixins: pastel colors, big fonts, tags, RSS feeds, and AJAX. But beyond all that, it's social software that works really well. Its "My Bar" Google-Suggest-alike interface makes it easy to create a list of what ingredients you have, and it's smart enough to know that, for example, Pepsi and Coke can be substituted in most recipes, or that Goldschlager and Firewater are both cinnamon schnapps. It also suggests common bar items that you probably have but forgot about, like water or lemon juice. Drinks that you can make with what you've got can be displayed in a nice recipe card list, and of course you can rate drinks, leave comments, and even suggest alternate recipes. Brilliant!

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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, ...

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