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Tweebay: What if eBay was powered by Twitter?
Auction terms should look familiar to anyone who has ever used eBay. You can upload a phoot, set a buy now price, or a reserve price. You can also set a postage price and choose your currency, although right now all listings are in British pounds. In Twitter-like style, you have to keep your descriptions under 240 characters.
There's no feedback, which is one of the things that makes buying and selling from strangers on eBay possible. But since the people most likely to see your Tweebay listings are your Twitter friends, they may trust you enough to buy from you without seeing a feedback rating.
If the site takes off, that feedback issue could become a problem, since there's nothing stopping you from visiting Tweebay.com and looking for auctions from people you don't know (although the lack of a search engine makes the web page only moderately useful). And the site likely faces another problem: trademark infringement. I wouldn't be surprised to see Tweebay change its name to something that sounds a bit less like eBay at some point.
[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, ...
