Google launched their new social network a couple of days ago, named Google+. As far as I know, only selected people, I don’t know how they are chosen, have invitations to the social site. Facebook started with invitations as well.

Demand has been so good that the inviation process has been shut down, somehow. I have no idea when it will get back up. Demand is insane, like I said, that people are flogging Google+ invites on eBay and getting over US$20 a piece. Isn’t that crazy? What’s the rush?

I remember friends paying for invites to Gmail and Facebook and other sites that require and invitation to be an early adopter. Although I am not that eager to try out Google+, I have to admit that I am already bored with Facebook and it would be timely to try out something new.

After eight years, SOE and LucasArts have decided to pull the plug on Star Wars Galaxies. Why? No reason was given…

I don’t know if this is good or bad to players. While I don’t play it myself, I have friends who are already bemoaning the demise of Star Wars Galaxies. Getting out of the addiction is certainly a good thing but then again, imagine growing with the game, spending so much time, energy and of course money on it only to know now that those were all in vain. This is one reason why I don’t spend money on online games and MMOs.

Of course, you can say that you have enjoyed the experience playing the game and even made some good friends amidst the enemies but that’s another story. At the same time, there are long time players who are glad to see it gone, claiming that the game has “lost it”.

I’ve just busted my budget for the month no thanks to a huge car repair bill and annual renewal of road tax and auto insurance. As you can see, June is a month that I dislike. In addition, I have to start thinking about gifts for friends and family. What should I buy for my father, brother, a close friend and a pen-pal whom I have corresponded with for the past twenty years? I am never good with gift buying, more so when I have to buy gifts for men!

In an effort to curb my expenses, I have been spending the past few days scouring CouponChief.com. I may not have any idea of what to buy now but I believe that with more than 50,000 coupons for 15,000 stores, I can surely buy something special for each individual, without paying through my nose. I definitely love the idea of paying less for more!

While I am at it, I might as well shop for myself. After all, by using coupon codes wisely, my purchases could end up cheaper than buying from local stores. Besides, there are many freebie coupons that I could use, like the Free Cinnastix from Domino’s Pizza.

Lulz Security or LulzSec in short, has announced that they are ending their planned fifty day hacking rampage against governmental and corporate websites, just days after breaching the system of Arizona Department of Public Safety and leaking its internal documents. This comes after the arrest of a 19-year-old young man by the UK police, believed to be a member of LulzSec and operated one of LulzSec’s Internet Relay Chat (IRC) servers.

If web administrators think they could rest on their laurels now, let’s not forget there is still Anonymous and many other copycat hackers waiting for their turns to make an impact on web users, in the way they know how. Stay alert, always.

If it appears that we read way too many reports that companies have been hacked, well, there is a recent survey that shows that 90% of companies in the United States have admitted to have their systems hacked before, at least once in the past twelve months.

The total number of respondents to this survey was 583. My, that is a high number of companies! Out of the 90%, nearly 60% of them said that their system was breached twice in the past year! More importantly, more than 50% of these respondents have little confidence that they are able to stave off security attacks on their system in the coming 12 months.

HHmmm with the many hacks going on in recent months, where major websites have been floored, it’s no longer safe to store anything online, whether important data on a cloud or personal information on a financial website.

The Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, have decided top drop the court case against Facebook, which they had wanted to take to Supreme Court, claiming that they have been short-changed in an earlier settlement, which they alleged Facebook left out important financial data that undervalued the true value of the social network.

This court case by the good looking Winklevoss twins, who are also former Olympic rowers, had spurned the movie, The Social Network. Cameron and Tyler, along with another partner, Divya Narendra, had claimed that Facebook “founder” Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea in creating the social network website.

While Divya Narendra was “satisfied” with the payment of US$20 million cash and US$45 million in stocks, the twins were not. Well, now they are.

Even before I had the chance to download, install and use Firefox 4, Firefox 5 is now available for download. Wow… isn’t that too fast? The reason I did not upgrade my Firefox from 3.6.13 was because there are some add-ons that I need to use, that are critical for my work, that have yet to catch up with the new version of Firefox.

The other day, my friend told me that the add-ons work on Firefox 4. He is keeping tabs for me. But even before I have time to download FF4, the Mozilla website now allows us to download FF5. Bleh… forget it. I am not going to download FF5 because once again, add-ons need time to catch up with the new browser version.