Google seems to be broken at the moment, informing users who run a Google search that EVERY site on the web will harm your computer.
The software, when working, is able to warn users of harmful sites; but at the moment even searching for “Google” and clicking on Google.com is returning the message “This site may harm your computer”.
The Nested Elements website will not harm your computer, we are safe to use.
We’ll post an update once we’ve heard more from Google. Hopefully, they will fix the problem soon!
UPDATE: The problem has now been resolved.
UPDATE: Google have posted a blog response explaining the site warning message:
What happened? Very simply, human error. Google flags search results with the message “This site may harm your computer” if the site is known to install malicious software in the background or otherwise surreptitiously. We do this to protect our users against visiting sites that could harm their computers. We maintain a list of such sites through both manual and automated methods. We work with a non-profit called StopBadware.org to come up with criteria for maintaining this list, and to provide simple processes for webmasters to remove their site from the list.
We periodically update that list and released one such update to the site this morning. Unfortunately (and here’s the human error), the URL of ‘/’ was mistakenly checked in as a value to the file and ‘/’ expands to all URLs.
D’oh!
“Honza has made some fantastic improvements to the Net panel. John Barton has improved the Script panel and debugging features as well as tweaking the console. Maybe more significantly were some of the changes under the covers. The new Tracing panel (FBTrace) for debugging Firebug itself during development is a huge improvement over the previous console-based system. We’re starting to get some unit test coverage through John Resig’s and Honza’s FireUnit.”
Grab a copy of the extension here
Please note: it doesn’t currently work on Firefox 3.1 beta.
Watch out Firefox, stand back Google Chrome. There’s a new browser in town.
Meet Kido’z, the new Internet browser designed especially for kids.
In all seriousness though, Kido’z is a fantastic idea offering safe and easy browsing for kids and direct access to the best kid’s websites.
Kido’z has been developed by KIDOZ Ltd - an Israeli startup - and built using Adobe AIR (which in turn uses the WebKit engine also shared by Safari and Chrome). The site uses a simple two arrow navigation system to allow kids with no previous experience of using a computer to be able to navigate the selected websites.
Kido’z sounds like a fantastic idea for those parents who are both concerned about what their child can view whilst on the Internet, but wish for their child to gain confidence in using a computer. Let’s hope it picks up with the under 8’s.
Here’s an interesting take on an online community:
The Texas Border Sheriff’s Coalition have set up a virtual community watch to try and stop border crime.
An innovative real-time surveillance program designed to empower the public to proactively participate in fighting border crime… a network of cameras and sensors along the Texas-Mexico border that feeds live streaming video… Users will log in to the BlueServo website and directly monitor suspicious criminal activity along the border via this virtual fence.
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