Facebook Farming, Walkman Turns 30 And More
My nascent Farm Town ranch is big on potatoes, short on farm animals and cash. Screenshot from Farm Town on Facebook. hide caption
My portion of this week's All Tech Considered was a mix of bits on some interesting things happening around the Web. Here's some of what we covered:
- Facebook farming (as pictured above) with games like Farm Town and Farmville is indeed a hit. I was surprised to find that even the farming and ranching online publication Agweek has taken note.
- One Web site does a big browser comparison. Meanwhile, Opera releases Unite in its latest browser version 10, which turns the browser itself into a kind of Web server to share documents or even conduct live chats without extra software.
- 13-year-old Scott Campbell tries out the Sony Walkman upon the occasion of its 30th anniversary on July 1. Hilarity ensues!
- As we mentioned in a previous post, here's the glorious Web Site Story! And here's a little background on the video, which was written and directed by College Humor's Sam Reich.