Filed under: Blogging, Yahoo!, Beta
Yahoo! launches new WordPress plugin
Do you use WordPress? Are you a fan of really annoying pop-up advertising links/badges? Then Yahoo! has the plugin for you! Launching today, the Yahoo! Shortcuts for Bloggers WordPress plugin is designed to allow bloggers to easily add context links and images to their blog posts, using the power of Yahoo!'s search method. Well, that all sounds fancy and interesting, unfortunately, at least in its current form, we find the plugin pretty lacking in any substantive features.Here's how the plugin works: after installing/activating the plugin in your WordPress installation, Yahoo! Shortcuts will automatically monitor your posts, as you type, for keywords that can either be converted to direct links, or into hover links in a little mini Yahoo! search box. Additionally, if you so choose, you can make choose to embed some Yahoo! content, like pictures from Flickr, maps from Yahoo! Maps and products from Yahoo! shopping database directly into your post.
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, ...
