Yesterday MeYou Health launched a new health game called Community Clash. Our mission: Take Community Health Data (recently made publicly available) and turn it it into a fun engaging experience. After 6 weeks of code, coffee and beer this is what we came up with: http://www.communityclash.com

After you play, you can share a replay of the game with your friends. Here are a few of my favorites: (these are all real cities)

Troy vs. Athens – http://bit.ly/bqzzWv
Dogue vs. Cat Spring – http://bit.ly/9IC8At
Partridge vs. Brady – http://bit.ly/d5FV8U
Angels Camp vs. Devils Lake – http://bit.ly/demkR3
Tornado vs. Hurricane – http://bit.ly/aUp9Y0
Vader vs. Luke – http://bit.ly/aQZcKK
Hercules vs. Medusa – http://bit.ly/afjnmw
Dorothy vs. Tornado – http://bit.ly/aKzFUe
Napoleon vs. Waterloo – http://bit.ly/cQ7iR5
Mars vs. Venus – http://bit.ly/asKcTH

Play your own cards!

I was using Outlook the other day and something caught my eye. The email notification in the lower right corner when I get new email. I’ve been using Twitter for well over a year and have tried a few different applications. Most of them send some notice to the screen when you get a new Tweet. Since Twitter is gaining users buy the boatload I imagine Microsoft, Google and the like have been trying to integrate the simple idea into their applications.

Now, let’s say for argument’s sake, the 140 Character thing is the key to all of this hype. Not too short, not too long. What would Microsoft need to do to mimic this behavior? Simple, just extend the character count in the notification. It currently only allows 80 characters.

Here’s what it would look like with a little visual change and a new category I’m calling “Announcements”. These could be company announcements, group announcements (“Cake in the 2nd floor kitchen for Bob”). Imagine if you could avoid all those kinds of emails from your inbox?

Here’s how I imagine it would look:

And all these little Announcements could be placed in outlook under their own category in Outlook so you can manage, search etc.

Oh and if that doesn’t work, you can always follow me on Twitter

I was recently perusing my del.icio.us account and noticed a news item that was tagged with “wft”. I’m not sure what I find more interesting, the use of the term “wtf” to identify content or the fact that people want to save things that they consider “wtf”

Here are some recently popular wtf stories:

The Chronicle Herald – Killer confesses, gets out
Youth Killed By a Helicopter While Getting His Mail Sparks Debate About Headphone Safety
The Big Apple: Chicken Fried Bacon
Ninja – Motivational Posters
Animated GIF of that girl who doesnt close her mouth

Here’s a link to the most popular wtf stories in del.icio.us