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2048 is the new Flappy Bird in so many ways
Have you been feeling just a little bit too productive since Flappy Bird got pulled from the Google Play and Apple App stores?Never fear, there's a new simple but addictive gaming sensation to fill that massive time-wasting vacuum until Flappy Bird's anticipated return.2048, the creation of a 19-year-old Italian programmer named Gabriele Cirulli, showed up free and fully open-sourced on Github earlier this month. The game is Web-based, although a mobile site is also available, and plenty of unofficial ports for Android and other platforms have begun to pop up. 2048 could be loosely described as similar to Threes, or like Candy Crush for math geeks, and while it's tough to understand what's happening at first glance, it only takes a minute to pick up the game and then you're off on the road to procrastination-enabling addiction. Cirulli debuted the game on March 9. Three days later he tweeted that thousands of people were playing the game at one moment:28000 people playing #2048game right now. The amount of man-hours spent playing this game will never be returned to humanity.— Gabriele Cirulli (@gabrielecirulli) March 12, 2014Related storiesMathematician says Candy Crush is really, really hardHit iOS game Threes! arrives for AndroidFlappy Bird is coming back to the App StoreBy March 16, Cirulli estimated that collectively over 520 years had been spent playing the game in its first week online. Still, he said he has no plans to monetize his game and warns against downloading imitation apps, claiming that some developers have been impersonating him on the Google Play store to boost downloads. Of course, the 2048 story doesn't end there. The parade of variants is in full swing, from Doge2048 as seen above to this ego-boosting version, a multi-player take, a headache-inducing 3D 2048, an even-more addicting Tetris mashup, and potentially the greatest time assassin of them all, a Flappy Bird-themed 2048 game.I don't recommend clicking on anything in the above paragraph. It could be your last click of the day until you pass out at your keyboard. You've been warned.A 10-item Facebook wish list
Last June I reviewed free Facebook privacy scanners that help you determine whether your Facebook data is safe. Back in April, Facebook expanded its advice for parents and teenagers, including information to thwart bullying and other types of abuse.5) Still too few safeguards for children and newbies. Even with Facebook's revamped instructions for parents and children, the service doesn't offer sufficient guidance for new members. The service's Getting Started page provides information only for finding friends but says nothing about the implications and risks entailed in using Facebook's third-party applications.The Guide to Privacy on Facebook offers only a single paragraph on application security. The Facebook Security page offers a seven-question Security Quiz developed with the help of three online security organizations. Experienced Web users will likely breeze through the questions, but a 30-second security refresher couldn't hurt. It wouldn't be a bad idea for Facebook to make the quiz a requirement for new users. 6) Too much scrolling, too few tabs. Facebook's unending update scroll is a throwback to the Web's early days of everything being thrown on a single page. Tabs are the modern way to organize and view Web information. Imagine separate Facebook tabs for family posts, work-related posts, and posts on specific subjects or with a certain type of content.7) Integrate Facebook mail with other mail systems. It's too easy for me to miss new Facebook mail. For example, the other day I noticed a friend's reply to a previous message had been sitting unread in my Facebook inbox for two weeks. (Facebook sends alerts to your primary e-mail address but not when someone replies to an earlier message.) Some people may prefer to keep their Facebook mail separate from their other messages, but I'd like the option to view all my mail in one place.8) Too much self-promotion/propagation. It makes perfect business sense for Facebook to encourage people to connect with more people and generally spend more time using the service. After all, the more Facebook knows about its users, the more precisely it can place its ads and the more money the service makes. Facebook also makes money by selling what it knows about its users--anonymously, of course.People are just starting to realize the value of their Facebook connections and activities to the company (the same is true for the other Web services we use). One of these days, we may wise up and tell these services that if they're going to make money from tracking us, they're going to have to cut us in for a share. I know, dream on.9) Localization is still too hard/no focus on real communities. Facebook Places lets you alert friends to your whereabouts automatically, which helps people hook up with you when they're nearby. This isn't the same as hooking up with your community, however.Facebook suggests friends and provides various tools for finding friends based on your e-mail contacts, groups, and current and former employers. What isn't available is an easy way to connect with people in your neighborhood or community so you can keep tabs on the really local news. It would be nice to be able to geocode Facebook posts and view a map of posts based on those codes. I'd also like a cloud view of post topics with a geographic component to get a glimpse of trending topics in the neighborhood.10) Mirror my real-life interaction with family, friends, and associates. It's no surprise that I'm more interested in work-related Facebook updates during working hours and new posts from family and friends in the evening and on weekends. Why not prioritize posts based on my work and leisure schedule?Likewise, in the days leading up to a big event, I'd like to move updates from friends associated with that event to the top of the queue or otherwise reset update priority on an ad-hoc basis. And how difficult would it be to redirect work-related posts while you're on vacation and view them (or not) when you return to work? The customization possibilities are limitless.It's unlikely that we'll be seeing any of these new Facebook features in the near future, but Facebook is also a development platform, so enterprising developers could deliver new ways to slice and dice our Facebook data--if the Facebook API supports it, that is. For Facebook to realize its potential as the ultimate Web portal, the service will have to be more adaptable to its users' preferences and proclivities. Otherwise, someone else will steal Facebook's momentum and render the service tomorrow's MySpace.