With the NFL and NBA both being in lockout now, things are beginning to look a little sparse for American sports fans - just like the NBA website and official team websites. With the NBA lockout officially beginning hours ago, the NBA website (www.nba.com) has been updated to remove all mention of current players although they are still listed and linked to official stats on … [Read more...]
Has An Account Of Yours Been Compromised?
LulzSec hacks, the Gawker breach, and other database hacks recently have released a number of databases full of personal information, e-mail addresses, and account passwords into the public domain. A few sites have cropped up after the big releases to allow individuals to check if their accounts were included in the breach without having to download the .csv files themselves … [Read more...]
If Webcomics Had Downloadable Content… [Humor]
Dueling Analogs brings us a hypothetical look at What if Webcomics had DLC?. It is just hypothetical, right? Frickin' hats... … [Read more...]
Google+, Google’s Next Big Foray Into Social, Marks The Launch of Web 3.0
Did I say big? This seems big. While Google's last attempt at social, Orkut, might have been a flop everywhere except Brazil, the Google+ Project is making Facebook look old and stale. Web 2.0 gave us the database-driven webpage and the launch of the social web. Sure, we had AIM, IRC, and tons of other social interactions on the web each day but Web 2.0 made it even larger. Web … [Read more...]
Google, Once You Go Black… Navigation Bar
Google has rolled out a new all black navigation bar across the top of the search engine's major sites like web, image, and video searches, Google News, Google Maps, and Google Calendar. So far, Gmail and YouTube seem unaffected by the change. The change goes from black text with white background to a black background with grey text and white text for the focused … [Read more...]