Tipjoy, a startup that allowed users to easily collect ‘tips’ from their readers and fans in the form of small Paypal transfers, is closing up shop. Earlier this evening Co-founder Ivan Kirigin posted a note to the Tipjoy blog announcing the site’s shutdown. Users with an outstanding positive balance will be able to cash out, but the rest of the site has been turned off.

Tipjoy tried to make web tips feasible by lowering the barrier readers would have to clear as much as possible — to leave a tip, users only had to enter their Email address, with no credit card needed. The amount of money left to a site was effectively a pledge to pay up at some point down the line (Tipjoy tallied up your tips so you could pay them all at once). Unfortunately, users often didn’t take the time to tip at all, and those that did usually didn’t actually pay up.

Sony isn’t giving up on PlayStation Home anytime soon and PS Home Online Community Specialist Locust_Star has detailed the upcoming fall update, v1.3, and it’s serious business, people, or as Locust_Star points out, “This is the for real deal upgrade!” Yeah, sure, whatever you say, dude (or dudette).

Let’s begin. Universal game launching is being deployed in v1.3 and that’s pretty damn kickass. In other words, you can launch into any PS3 game, like SFIV, Resistance 2 (I have that!), MotorStorm (I think I have this.) and Far Cry 2 directly from Home. Special icons that hover over your avatar’s head will denote titles that fully support game launching, says Locust_Star. Wait. Shouldn’t all PS3 games support that?

Anyway, there will be “varying degrees of additional multiplayer functionality built in.” It’s a smidge unclear whether or not you’ll be able to launch games that are already in the console because of the following statement: “Simply insert the disc of your choice while in Home and follow the on screen directions and you’ll be good to go.” But that would be pretty ritarded (have you seen ‘The Hangover’?) if it didn’t. Launching into the game from Home will take you directly to the start menu.

The rest is dribble about purchasing crap for your avatar, “portable objects” (whatever the fuck those are), a SingStar space and other little patches. Not a bad update, but I can’t remember the last time I even went into Home.

All new season of truTV’s Black Gold is set to be released on TruTV. Everybody in my home are exited about it. This is the best show ever on this whole earth. It is set to air on August 19th. Surely all are going to enjoy this season.

In the unforgiving oil fields of West Texas, the toughest guys in the Lone Star State have just 50 days to drill four back-breaking holes. In the words of one onlooker, “It’s never been done before.” From the creator of Ice Road Truckers and Deadliest Catch comes the second season of a show about men who can’t afford to make any mistakes that might cost them their jobs or, even more importantly, their lives.

The crew member includes Pee-Wee, Travis, Mack Chuck, Gerald, Josh
Tank, Ron, Oscar Cheston, Brandon, Ben. We except all kinds of on-the-job training a roughneck on the oil fields should expect based on the required video. Black Gold exemplifies Real-Life television will have a great impact on the all the employees. This is really going to be a inspiring as well. You can watch one of the videos of trutv.com. Just post your view about this videos in comments section and we will discuss about this.

We’ve known since June that Facebook was going to revamp its inbox, which has been one of the social network’s real weaknesses. Today, the new inbox appears to be rolling live for some users.

And you can see, the changes are a little different than some of the ones previewed two months ago. But as expected, there’s a more obvious way to jump between the inbox, updates and sent messages. It is also much easier to filter out which emails are unread versus the ones that you’ve already seen. Perhaps most notably, the composition box for a new message is an overlay rather than a new window, which is much nicer. The threaded discussions for actual messages has also been significantly cleaned up and now look more like the News Feed, complete with the square-shaped icons.

We haven’t had a chance to test it yet (it’s only beginning to roll out to users), but I would assume that the search functionality has been upgraded as well, alongside with the recent upgrade to Facebook’s regular search functionality. Facebook rival MySpace also recently overhauled its inbox in an effort to get it up to par not just with other social networks, but with the big boys like Yahoo Mail and Gmail.

This post is really interesting for the iphone users. There’s a cool, new, little app that was recently released in the Apple app store called MyNewPlace. Iphone is the best of all phone and i have no words to tell how excellent it is. Now Apple just came out with a new innovative free application at http://www.mynewplace.com/iphone that revolutionizes the way you can search for an apartment and its available at the iphone store. MyNewPlace.com is offering iPod users a really terrific new application! Mynewplaces.com helps you to find and connect the apartments and rental homes across your country. This application will make it easier for you to search apartment and house listing with the help of your GPS for location based searches.There is built in Facebook Connect functionality so that you can share your new or dream apartment with your friends on Facebook. This is one of the biggest apartment rental sites on the internet. There are more than 6 million apartments and rental homes nationwide, they’re a 3 time business week best of the web winner. What else information you need? Just visit their website http://www.mynewplace.com/iphone even you can read bout MyNewPlace in the iPhone app store.

The nominations for the 81st Annual Academy Awards have been announced. Take a look at the main categories:

Best Motion Picture

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Director - Motion Picture

David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant – Milk
Stephen Daldry – The Reader
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture

Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie – Changeling
Melissa Leo – Frozen River
Meryl Streep – Doubt
Kate Winslet - The Reader

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture

Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn – Milk
Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role

Amy Adams – Doubt
Penélope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis – Doubt
Taraji P Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler

Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role

Josh Brolin - Milk
Robert Downey Jr - Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road

Best Foreign Language Film

The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
The Class (France)
Departures (Japan)
Revanche (Austria)
Waltz with Bashir (Israel)
Best Animated Feature Film Of The Year

Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E
Achievement In Art Direction

Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
Revolutionary Road
Achievement In Cinematography

Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
Achievement In Costume Design

Australia
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Duchess
Milk
Revolutionary Road
Best Documentary Feature

The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Encounters at the End of the World
The Garden
Man on Wire
Trouble the Water
Best Documentary Short Subject

The Conscience of Nhem En
The Final Inch
Smile Pinki
The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306

Achievement In Film Editing

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire

Achievement In Makeup

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Achievement In Music Written For Motion Pictures (Original Score)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Defiance
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
Wall-E

Achievement In Music Written For Motion Pictures (Original Song)

Down to Earth from Wall-E
Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire
O Saya from Slumdog Millionaire

Best Animated Short Film

La Maison en Petits Cubes
Lavatory - Lovestory
Oktapodi
Presto
This Way Up

Best Live Action Short Film

Auf der Strecke (On the Line)
Manon on the Asphalt
New Boy
The Pig
Spielzeugland (Toyland)

Achievement In Sound Editing

The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
Wall-E
Wanted

Achievement In Sound Mixing

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
Wall-E
Wanted

Achievement In Visual Effects

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man

Adapted Screenplay

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

Original Screenplay

Frozen River
Happy-Go-Lucky
In Bruges
Milk
Wall-E

Who do you think will win Oscar for all the above category?