Filed under: Internet, Web services
Xinu lives on
Well, it looks like Xinu's been resurrected. The developer has published the source code under a creative commons license and listed a series of mirrors where you can check out the service. The developer suggests that the code isn't particularly pretty, but anyone with the necessary know how is welcome to help work out the bugs.
In the meantime, Xinu's still a nifty little tool for checking a whole slew of web statistics in one place. Among other things, you can find your Google PageRank, your Technorati Authority, how often pages from your site have been submitted to social bookmarking pages, and how many readers have subscribed to your site using Bloglines.
Of course, all of this is freely available data, but Xinu saves you the time and trouble of tracking down each statistic one by one.
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, ...
