Technorati Monster a Casualty of Layoffs?
Technorati is a strong candidate for the title of the most unreliable web service ever: frequent ouatages, slow response time even when it’s up, basic functions not working, a blog index that forgets old posts – you name it. They once were pioneers with a vision of indexing the blogosphere and being the glue that [...]
When Apology is Not Enough
Today is the Day of Apologies. President Bush is sorry about the economic crisis, but his biggest regret is the flawed intelligence that led to the Iraq war: “The biggest regret of all the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq. A lot of people put their reputations on the line and [...]
Firefox Add-On Site Down: How to Check For Outages
If you’re about to install a Firefox extension, you’re out of luck: The Mozilla add-on site is down. Of course sometimes it’s not the destination, but your connection – so how can you know? A very appropriately named site: downforeveryoneorjustme comes to your rescue: The site will quickly tell you if you have a problem, [...]
Zoho Announces Status Dashboard for All Services – You Can Use it, Too.
No service is a 100% available, and of course your SaaS provider’s outage always comes in the ‘worst time’, just when you have a deadline to meet… what really gets painful is when you have no information whatsoever on what just happened and how long the outage may be. Major providers like Salesforce.com and Amazon [...]
