Filed under: Utilities, Social Software
WeatherPoke gives you weather alerts via Facebook
There are a lot of pointless apps on Facebook, but occasionally some useful information turns up on the site. WeatherPoke is one app that might actually tell you something you want to know, instead of more quizzes and top five lists. You can use it to display a local weather forecast on your page, publish the weather to your profile, or get alerts when the weather in your area turns bad. If you're a Facebook junkie, it'll save you a trip to a separate weather site every morning.
WeatherPoke gets its info from The Weather Channel's Weather.com, and constantly polls the weather, even when you aren't logged in. It's a useful app, but it's got a couple of bad habits that disappoint me in a Facebook app. The button to invite your friends is much, much larger than the tiny "skip" link underneath it, and there are a couple of Facebook dialog boxes trying to get you to publish weather info to your profile. These aren't dealbreakers, though, and WeatherPoke is a very usable, perfectly decent app that adds something constructive to the Facebook experience.
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, ...
