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Vzaar: this is what happens when you add videos to eBay


It's no secret that a good photo can make or break your eBay auction. If you snap a blurry photo, buyers have every reason to believe you're trying to hide something. But if you show that same item with a series of bright and shiny photos potential buyers are more likely to trust you. And if you take a video showing that your old PC or motorcycle actually starts up, you're golden.

Vzaar is a new UK-based startup that makes it easier to insert videos into eBay listings. Unlike other video classified sites like Real People Real Stuff, Vzaar doesn't need to build a user base from scratch. While Real People Real Stuff can only succeed if enough people decide to list items for sale on the site, Vzaar is targeted at eBay users. that want to make their auctions stand out.

The site makes it easy to upload videos from your phone or digital camera. Videos can be up to 100MB and 2 minutes long. You can upload up to 1GB per month. And your videos can easily be embedded in eBay listings.

Of course, you could just as easily embed a YouTube listing, but Vzaar also lists eBay data on its site, including latest bid prices and item numbers. If you're looking to organize all of your eBay videos in one place, and perhaps want to browse through other listings with video, Vzaar might be a good place to start.

Some items work better than others in video. One user is trying to sell his baseball card collection by pointing out that some cards (not necessarily his) can be worth millions, while another has apparently outgrown her teenage crush on Matt Dillon and is auctioning off a binder filled with magazine clippings of the actor with his shirt off.

[via Mashable]

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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