So, the new features you say?

The biggest change that most people will notice right away is that the navigation has been move to the left hand side. The big advantage to this is that they’ve made it possible for you to access all your gadgets individually without having to click a specific tab first.

Not only can you select specific gadgets quickly, but you can also view them in what their calling canvas view. Basically, this means you can have your gadget take up the whole window as opposed to the preview 1/3 screen view size.

Other new features include the ability to use Chat on the iGoogle home page rather than through gmail, and new rounder gadget boxes.

Finally one of the nice things they’ve done away with is the need to click the title of a news article to view it’s summary. Instead, all the summary’s are neatly place below the article titles.

For more info on the new features, be sure to check out this page.

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What can I say other than “I’m not surprised”. Christina seemed a lot like the 2006 winner Heather, and Petrozza came across as too dopey to run a professional kitchen. At least Jen didn’t make it to the top 2 - I probably would have never watched again if she did.

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I was actually personally involved with the new site launch, and as a developer I’ve got to say it’s a pretty good feeling - especially the fact that it was for a company like Nikon. The new site is really interactive and features some pretty stunning high resolution imagery. Be sure to check it out!

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The CPL is dead. Finally actually dead as a tournament organization, not just “gg cpl == dead”-dead. For those that still care here’s the story.

First off, a lot of this can’t be verified. I’m sorry but I’m not posting logs or giving sources in order to protect people. Here’s what can be verified;

Chris Moncivalles - CPLs League Commissioner, was fired around the 27th of January. He disappeared from the CPL staff page and people started asking questions. A few days later he was added back on the staff page as “Online Store Director”. Promise you however, that’s just to avoid questions, he’s still fired and that’s why he hasn’t been responding to any of you.

Thomas Hollingsworth - CPLs IRC Manager dropped his tag a few days ago and disappeared off the CPL staff page. At which point we can somewhat assume he’s no longer with the CPL anymore either.

Now, Micheal Allen will also be gone at the end of the month, he’s the Global Tournament Director and as such his services won’t be required by the CPL anymore because of the CPL likely not having any more tournaments after the world tour ends this month.

As it stands, this may not be the last you’ve heard of “the CPL” but it should be the last you’ve heard of “the CPL” in regards to gaming tournaments. The CPL may try to become an advisory company of sorts for video game companies. This should largely be read as an excuse to stay involved with Daikatana 2, or Severity, whichever name you find suiting. (Yes Romero, we haven’t forgotten or forgiven that abomination of a game you threw at us). Plus they still have 1/2 of the stock of CPL mice to sell!

The CPL has been losing money (obviously) and after a buy-out from Play’nTrade failed because Angel didn’t want to relocate, it was practically decided to end the CPL’s run.

What this means for CAL is not a whole lot, CALs been told to keep doing its thing, however they might lose partnerships such as hosting which could become rather troublesome. And that’s aside from staff that might bail and look for newer, better things. (Don’t say CEVO, dealing with Angel is horrible, but dealing with Charlie Plitt is hell on earth).

Now until Angel crawls out and states something, things can change. You never know when some unfortunate company decides to sink money into gaming and runs into the CPL. This post/message was made mostly due to a complete communications break-down. Angel won’t talk to anyone anymore about what’s going to happen which leaves certain people stuck in limbo.
They can’t say anything but they can’t do anything either. As it stands the story is largely as I’ve just told it. I’m expecting this to finally lead to some kind of official response on the situation at hand from Angel.

I’ve said most of what I care to say, I won’t be dealing with people directly contacting me regarding this. If people wish to discuss the matter there’s a live online gaming talk show called Faces For Radio which should air tomorrow at 8pm EST and last for about 2 hours.
I’m not sure whether they’ll welcome discussion on the subject or not, but if so I’ll try to call in and respond to any questions anyone might ask there if the show allows such, please don’t contact me otherwise. It’s hosted by the same people that produce Epileptic Gaming, information on how to watch can be found at http://epilepticgaming.ggl.com/

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