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Welcome to the Twitterverse
The explosion of the Twitter applications has sure arrived. Just when you thought that there were already too many twitter mashups and applications, another one pops up. If you aren't familiar with Twitter, it's basically a small blog tool that lets you enter small posts either from the browser window, Google Talk, or from mobile devices.
Ideacodes has just released a new Twitter fan tool, thet Twitterverse. It allows people to check out what words are commonly used through Twitter. They take data that is available from Twitter's public timeline and mash it up to create a clean Web 2.0 visual display --much like a tag cloud -- of the words by adjusting the type size depending on the usage amount.
Other Twitter tools include Triqqr, Twitterholic, TwitThis, Twittermap and Autotwit.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
