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Poo: love it or hate it, you’re sure to release it now and then. If you’re a big fan of poo you’re sure to enjoy Poo Warrior, the incredibly odd poo-themed Flash game. It’s arguably the best poo game on the ‘net, although Catch a Shit is a strong contender.
Some people have too much love for the brown stuff.
Tom Dickson unleashes his mighty Blendtec blender yet again, and the results ain’t pretty.
Some bloke has created a mix of his 20 greatest hip-hop albums of all-time. I can’t find a link to the mix on his website, but hey, check out the cover! A fantastic pastiche of the legendary Sergeant Pepper album by The Beatles.
For all you hip-hop nerds – check out the website for a full who’s who.
Monkey Kick Off features both a monkey and a football – genius! Try and use your primate soccer skills to beat the Include Digital personal best by clicking here.
An invite to the private beta of Microsoft’s user-generated video site Soapbox arrived in my inbox today. A direct rival to Google’s YouTube, is Soapbox yet another example of too little too late from Redmond?
The welcome screen upon login promised much. Soapbox certainly looks more appealing than YouTube:
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Proceeding to the main application interface, I wasn’t disappointed. Navigation throughout is a very fluid, Flash-based experience, which works excellently for video-based content.
Searching for content proved very easy: both category selection and free text search were very responsive, and delivered appropriate results. As one would expect from any aspiring Web 2.0 application, all search results are delivered without refreshing the page.
The video player seems more refined that YouTube’s: the core controls are simple and clear, and the tools for rating, tagging and sharing content are equally straight forward. However, it does suffer one fairly irritating flaw; the fullscreen link fails miserably in Firefox on OSX, but as this is in beta, it’s likely this will be fixed prior to launch.
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Soapbox looks like it could be a real contender. Microsoft are sure to throw their considerable weight behind it, but they’ll have a real fight on their hands given YouTube’s total dominance in the field of user-generate video.
Goggles is a fun flight simulator game that uses graphical data from Google Maps. A great idea from Mark Caswell-Daniels.
This penalty shootout game is from one of the few officially licensed 2006 FIFA World Cup partners, and it’s pretty good to boot! It uses a clever combination of video and pseudo-3D effects in Flash to create what is easily one of the best World Cup virals around.
http://game.fifaworldcup.philips.com/
