Comments on: Tailrank Goes Blank, But Nobody Notices

By: Tailrank Finally Slides Into The Deadpool, But The Platform Behind It Lives On | Marketing Internetowy

Wed, 20 May 2009 08:06:21 +0000

[...] looking to compete with the likes of Techmeme and a handful of competitors. By mid-2007 it became clear that few people were actually using the site, after it took weeks before anyone noticed that its [...]

By: Mash123 » Tailrank Finally Slides Into The Deadpool, But The Platform Behind It Lives On

Wed, 20 May 2009 04:06:57 +0000

[...] with the likes of Techmeme and a handful of competitors. By mid-2007 it became clear that few people were actually using the site, after it took weeks before anyone [...]

By: Trade Jim News » Tailrank Finally Slides Into The Deadpool, But The Platform Behind It Lives On

Wed, 20 May 2009 01:15:26 +0000

By: Tailrank Finally Slides Into The Deadpool, But The Platform Behind It Lives On

Tailrank Finally Slides Into The Deadpool, But The Platform Behind It Lives On — Wed, 20 May 2009 01:07:33 +0000

By: Breaking the Techmeme Habit - BuzzYA!

Breaking the Techmeme Habit - BuzzYA! — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:50:39 +0000

[...] a Techmeme competitor, Tailrank hasn’t gotten much attention since last year, when a brief outage made news because no one seemed to notice. Tailrank still links to the blogosphere, but the news there seems [...]

By: Tailrank 2.5 Launches. It Still Falls Short

Tailrank 2.5 Launches. It Still Falls Short — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:38:26 +0000

[...] been a bit harsh on Tailrank over the last few months, even suggesting that it may be time to deadpool it. But the [...]

By: Kevin Burton

Kevin Burton — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 02:28:19 +0000

Why can anyone say that they’re Kevin Burton, Michael, ever thought of picking up the phone?

By: Time To DeadPool TailRank? You Decide.

Time To DeadPool TailRank? You Decide. — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 01:37:22 +0000

[...] weeks ago we noted that blog news engine TailRank was looking like a ghost town: No new news was showing on the site, and people noted that the Technology section had been a blank [...]

By: TechCrunch.com - Bull! « Robert Mena

TechCrunch.com - Bull! « Robert Mena — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:30:19 +0000

[...] TechCrunch Unfair [...]

By: Fake Kevin Burton

Fake Kevin Burton — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 05:44:21 +0000

Hey guys,

Sorry about not responding earlier, just found this thread.

The truth is, I was busy picking up chicks by hacking into their AIM via wifi at coffee shops here in SF.

Anyway, got back to this one’s pad, but she turned out to be a tranny and kidnapped me for two weeks while my site was down.

The good news – I’m back, and so is Tailrank.

- Fake Kevin Burton

By: cool INTERNET guy

cool INTERNET guy — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 03:58:24 +0000

Websites are SERIOUS BUSINESS. I know EVERYTHING so I type LIKE THIS to show how forceful and PERSUASIVE I am. WHY am I failing to PERSUADE you?! I’m a cool INTERNET GUY and if you don’t agree with me you’re stupid, and worse, you don’t GET IT. God!

By: patricia

patricia — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:25:41 +0000

Inside voices, please

By: somaking

somaking — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:56:15 +0000

Kevin,

A posting on techcrunch does NOT mean you MATTER. In fact, I typically avoid lawyers’ advice on technical and business matters. WHY should I listen to Mike Arroganton?

By: Arun Vijayan

Arun Vijayan — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:15:10 +0000

I liked TailRank. And even noticed famous Startup writers “refused” to profile them when they started months ago. They were unlucky at that time.

Downtimes can be a story, but I am sure that they will come back with stuff. No doubt.

By: Timmy

Timmy — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:37:00 +0000

How’s the war-dating going, Kevin?

By: Kevin Burton

Kevin Burton — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:35:59 +0000

Michael….. Nice to know we matter….

I’ll chalk this up to other famous Techcrunch posts such as “RIP Ning” or the new Netscape.com being a ‘digg killer’

Kevin

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:39:23 +0000

Hey Kevin, being down for weeks, or partially down, or whatever, is a story. Take it as a compliment that you matter. A lot of startups die and never get mentioned again. I look forward to the rebirth, or new launch, or whatever is next.

By: Kevin Burton

Kevin Burton — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:17:07 +0000

The real secret is that Tailrank is just a domain squatting campaign to extort $$ form hotornot. You guys busted me!

Now I just need to follow up with James to get my payday.

By: aandarian

aandarian — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:10:40 +0000

Whats with the hostility?

By: wag

wag — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:21:37 +0000

yeah, arrington is wrong. the worst-case scenario for tailrank is a future as a (likely very high-traffic) porn rating site!

By: TailStank

TailStank — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:16:35 +0000

but that notsorelevant post claims week(s) downtime, which is a multiple (not a FRACTION) of combined downtime of techcrunch, twitter, even zooomer

By: Anatoly

Anatoly — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:39:36 +0000

And here I was, thinking that TailRank was an alternative to Hot or Not.

By: Kevin Burton

Kevin Burton — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:39:28 +0000

tailtank…..

I DID say that we have had issues here and there for the last month as we bring the new infrastructure online.

Interesting that we have downtime which is a FRACTION of other sites (including Techcrunch, Twitter, etc) yet we’re deadpooled..

By: tailtank

tailtank — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:59:29 +0000

Sorry Kevin, but a quick Technorati search shows another post from the 26th of May that says that Tailrank was down:

http://www.nots...nology-problem/

the post on Techwag that is linked to from the article here says that the problems were very persistent, too. I suggest you chill out and not blame this on Techcrunch – they are just reporting what they saw.

You should focus on keeping the site alive – there is no reason, upgrade or not, for a site to be down for so long

By: n/a

n/a — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:36:44 +0000

“If we were working on such a LARGE piece of technology WHY WOULD WE BE IN THE DEADPOOL?”

Size has nothing to do with the value or life of a product. “LARGE” doesn’t automatically mean “relevant.”

Also, caps lock is cruise control for cool.