Soduko is a puzzle game (and a quite addicting one if I may add) that like all other puzzle games is based on logic. There are plenty of sites that offer free soduko puzzles online using scripts that are written using PHP or Javascript. However these are so not Web2.0 . I was looking for a soduko script that was written using Ajax and I found a really cool one. The best thing about this script is that it doesn’t use numbers like most soduko games but a set of nine imagesfrom Flickr. You can specify what kind of images you want to use by selecting a tag or by selecting a Flickr user.
If you don’t know how soduko is played you can read the rules here and you can start playing soduko using this cool script here or if you prefer more traditional sodukos you can play at www.sodukopuzzles.net

There is a lot of buzz about the development end of Web 2.0. A lot of applications are being released with APIs so that developers, outside of the companies, can build plugins or new components for their favorite applications. What a great idea! Take your product that you think is good, and then let the users have the ability to add on to it the features that they think would be either fun or useful.

Over at Programmable Web they have put together a a collection of what are being called mashups. The basis behind a mashup is a mixing of 1 or more Web 2.0 APIs to build something new. It seems like a simple enough concept to just start merging the functionality from application to application to really get them to do whatever you can dream of.

I highly recommend everyone go through the list of mashups over at Programmable Web and check out some of them. There is a lot of creative stuff being put together. Maybe mashups will be the push in the right direction towards a more open source world. Development between companies occurring in perfect harmony…okay maybe not. But they’re still fun to play with.

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