If you’re a fan of the puzzle piece dropping game Tetris, then you’ll enjoy the app DropIn. It was created in a day by the LinkedIn team to show how useful the LinkedIn API can be.

The premise is simple, and very reminiscent of TweetBricks, which used your Twitter friends in a game of Tetris.

This game is actually fun, and can educate you on what your LinkedIn contacts are up to these days.

Playing DropIn

The blocks that are used in the Tetris game will be replaced by the avatars of your LinkedIn contacts. The neat part is that if you click anyone on the puzzle blocks, you’ll be shown the latest information about them from their LinkedIn profile.

Imagine telling someone that you learned about their new job during a game of Tetris.

DropIn is a fun way to pass the time and do a little bit of networking, too.

The controls are rather easy and use your keyboard for the interactions.

Unfortunately you can’t share or save your high scores, which kills some of the opportunities to get people to keep playing. However, for an app built in a day, what can you really expect?

I suggest playing DropIn on a larger sized monitor, as I couldn’t get the whole screen to show up correctly on my 11-inch MacBook Air. Other than that, the app is great, and might inspire you to develop new games or apps using the LinkedIn API.

These are the top 20 5 Second Videos Presented by UPROXX and 5secondfilms.

The rules are simple: 2 seconds of beginning titles, 5 seconds of film, 1 second of end titles. If you take umbrage with these 5sfs running at an actual length of 8 seconds, we can only assume you’re no fun at dinner parties.

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Steve Jobs attended the Oscars last night where Apple showed the first Apple iPad commercial.

A photo was taken of Jobs walking the red carpet which was quickly doing the rounds on the web.

We decided to run some CIA style image enhancements on the photo and found out that Flash WILL run on the iPad. The result blew us away. Steve Jobs carries an iPad around with Flash running on it!

Check our photo proof:

If you could see what your mouse did on your screen all day, what would it look like?

One designer, Anatoly Zenkov, recorded his mouse movements (lines) and stops (circles) after using Photoshop for a few hours. He used a java applet you can download for Mac and PC. Simply let it run in the background, and use commands “S” to save the image and “R” to restart.

If you’re a developer or designer, you should definitely consider downloading the applet — it could be quite useful in designing interfaces and if nothing else, it looks really cool. Comment below and share some of your mouse trails with us!

Thanks to the folks at Gizmodo for sharing!

[Image via Flickr]

Click the image to zoom in. It is worth it.

I laughed so hard I almost cried. Which might be more appropriate as I can’t imagine all these accidents having happy endings. Anyway, be ready to be shocked, and enjoy:

This is just one image from a whole collection that is just too good to be true, except that it is all true. Go read the original and complete story:

And if you enjoyed that also check the “Funniest email conversation ever” which is about the same thing but might be even funnier…

Via Digg.