Comments on: 2007 Had Its Share Of Internet Woes http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/ Startup and Technology News Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:33:26 -0800 hourly 1 By: agnes http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-1883166 agnes Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:49:14 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/#comment-1883166 two of our writers were citing a previous TC blog on twitter downtime, michael... hence, we shall have an episode wittering twitter and a fun vid episode inside data centers when we launch. @25 nice. happy holidays, lovelies. i have enough choco from christmas now to open a swish choco emporium... two of our writers were citing a previous TC blog on twitter downtime, michael… hence, we shall have an episode wittering twitter and a fun vid episode inside data centers when we launch.

@25 nice.

happy holidays, lovelies. i have enough choco from christmas now to open a swish choco emporium…

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]]> By: Paul Querna http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-1881159 Paul Querna Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:36:45 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/#comment-1881159 @Doug Mehus: The plumbers connection to both Yahoo Groups, and Bloglines, is that they were both founded by Mark Fletcher. (ONEList -> eGroups -> Yahoo Groups). @Doug Mehus: The plumbers connection to both Yahoo Groups, and Bloglines, is that they were both founded by Mark Fletcher. (ONEList -> eGroups -> Yahoo Groups).

]]> By: Anthony Stevens http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-1880762 Anthony Stevens Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:30:51 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/#comment-1880762 What about the huge 12-hour BlackBerry outage in April? If Skype is on the list, it seems to me that this one should be as well. What about the huge 12-hour BlackBerry outage in April? If Skype is on the list, it seems to me that this one should be as well.

]]> By: Doug Mehus http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-1880509 Doug Mehus Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:23:10 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/#comment-1880509 Michael, I have had that image on my computer from back in 2001 or 2002. It first appeared on Yahoo! Groups' site when they were down for maintenance. Bloglines must've gotten it from Yahoo! or perhaps it's from some stock photography site. Nonetheless, it's interesting to point out Yahoo! was first to use it. Best wishes for the New Year! -Doug Michael,

I have had that image on my computer from back in 2001 or 2002. It first appeared on Yahoo! Groups’ site when they were down for maintenance. Bloglines must’ve gotten it from Yahoo! or perhaps it’s from some stock photography site. Nonetheless, it’s interesting to point out Yahoo! was first to use it.

Best wishes for the New Year!

-Doug

]]> By: Ballmer http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-1880185 Ballmer Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:38:37 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/#comment-1880185 Microsoft did not have anything to do with the skype thing! fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com Microsoft did not have anything to do with the skype thing!

fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

]]> By: Search◊ Engines Web http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-1880150 Search◊ Engines Web Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:16:26 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/#comment-1880150 Yeah, but thru it all... <b> The Beat Goes On .......... Everybody Sing now!</b><blockquote> :-D CHORUS: The beat goes on, the beat goes on Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain La de da de de, la de da de da Charleston was once the rage, uh huh History has turned the page, uh huh The mini skirts the current thing, uh huh Teenybopper is our newborn king, uh huh Chorus The grocery store's the super mart, uh huh Little girls still break their hearts, uh huh And men still keep on marching off to war Electrically they keep a baseball score Chorus Grandmas sit in chairs and reminisce Boys keep chasing girls to get a kiss The cars keep going faster all the time Bums still cry "hey buddy, have you got a dime" Chorus</blockquote> Yeah, but thru it all…

The Beat Goes On ………. Everybody Sing now!

:-D
CHORUS:
The beat goes on, the beat goes on
Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain
La de da de de, la de da de da

Charleston was once the rage, uh huh
History has turned the page, uh huh
The mini skirts the current thing, uh huh
Teenybopper is our newborn king, uh huh

Chorus

The grocery store’s the super mart, uh huh
Little girls still break their hearts, uh huh
And men still keep on marching off to war
Electrically they keep a baseball score

Chorus

Grandmas sit in chairs and reminisce
Boys keep chasing girls to get a kiss
The cars keep going faster all the time
Bums still cry “hey buddy, have you got a dime”

Chorus

]]> By: Wayne Pan http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-1880148 Wayne Pan Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:14:33 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/#comment-1880148 @Fabricio Zuardi, @rod I totally agree. bloglines interface is far superior to google reader. Give me simple, intuitive, and fast. @Fabricio Zuardi, @rod I totally agree. bloglines interface is far superior to google reader. Give me simple, intuitive, and fast.

]]> By: rod / techwatching.com http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-1880111 rod / techwatching.com Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:55:31 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/#comment-1880111 Interesting stuff.... that bloglines plumber is a PITA, but I just can't wrest myself away from their cool blue familiarity. Of note: even in the last 38 days (which is as far back as the TW index goes), posts about "downtime" are predominantly Twitter related: http://techwatching.com/index.php?search=downtime&range=0 Say what you will about the utility of the twitter service, the outcry that arises when its unavailable speaks to the impact its had on people's lives. Interesting stuff…. that bloglines plumber is a PITA, but I just can’t wrest myself away from their cool blue familiarity.

Of note: even in the last 38 days (which is as far back as the TW index goes), posts about “downtime” are predominantly Twitter related:

http://techwatc...ime&range=0

Say what you will about the utility of the twitter service, the outcry that arises when its unavailable speaks to the impact its had on people’s lives.

]]> By: global warming controversy http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-1880098 global warming controversy Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:49:08 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/#comment-1880098 2008 may go down as the first time we have a fossil fuel related outage. 2008 may go down as the first time we have a fossil fuel related outage.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-1880058 Andrew Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:23:15 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/#comment-1880058 Twitter's outage was a big issue? Come on... there must have been some more important sites/services that had outages and actually cost someone some dollars. Twitter’s outage was a big issue? Come on… there must have been some more important sites/services that had outages and actually cost someone some dollars.

]]> By: Fabricio Zuardi http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-1880010 Fabricio Zuardi Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:56:57 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/#comment-1880010 Bloglines is still the best web rss reader out there, specially if you are subscribed to hundreds of feeds, their simple folders interface without ajaxy-bloated-fancy simply doesn't get in your way from what matters (the posts) and the "keep" button is the best. It is true that with bloglines beta they tried to copy the crappy google reader interface and annoying features like "read as you scroll" and it was a disaster, luckily, the bloglines classic is still the default interface and continues to kick ass. Plus, they are crystal clear about what you are marking as public vs private, and don't change privacy expectations in the middle of the game ;) Bloglines is still the best web rss reader out there, specially if you are subscribed to hundreds of feeds, their simple folders interface without ajaxy-bloated-fancy simply doesn’t get in your way from what matters (the posts) and the “keep” button is the best.

It is true that with bloglines beta they tried to copy the crappy google reader interface and annoying features like “read as you scroll” and it was a disaster, luckily, the bloglines classic is still the default interface and continues to kick ass.

Plus, they are crystal clear about what you are marking as public vs private, and don’t change privacy expectations in the middle of the game ;)

]]> By: mojaam http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-1879947 mojaam Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:23:48 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/#comment-1879947 Bloglines is one of those things that just can't have downtimes because people become so dependent on using it (still better than Google reader imo). They changed their downtime image to some ultra colorful one that looks too elementary: http://idealmindsonline.com/images/mo/bloglinesmaintencepage.html Bloglines is one of those things that just can’t have downtimes because people become so dependent on using it (still better than Google reader imo). They changed their downtime image to some ultra colorful one that looks too elementary: http://idealmin...ntencepage.html

]]> By: etavitom http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-1879938 etavitom Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:15:39 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/#comment-1879938 interesting.... have a great holiday interesting…. have a great holiday

]]> By: Alan Wilensky http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-1879917 Alan Wilensky Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:04:09 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/#comment-1879917 Fabian is right on: There may come a time when a major regional outage (not a service outage, but could be), takes down access to thousands of web based business apps. When that happens, some will rethink their dependence on a 100% web based application toolset. I have had outages with basecamp, and other applications, and I realized that gmail going down was a big problem when I relied on jsut the web interface, so I got pop running. Matter of time. Fabian is right on:

There may come a time when a major regional outage (not a service outage, but could be), takes down access to thousands of web based business apps.

When that happens, some will rethink their dependence on a 100% web based application toolset.

I have had outages with basecamp, and other applications, and I realized that gmail going down was a big problem when I relied on jsut the web interface, so I got pop running.

Matter of time.

]]> By: Fabian Schonholz http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-1879864 Fabian Schonholz Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:36:09 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/#comment-1879864 The problems with any downtime is that we more and more are dependent on the web for business and the internet for the business platform. It is not so much how companies are affected - this is not to suggest that it is not important to companies and how revenue is affected - but how, we as consumers, can not do some of our most mundane activities without operational access to the web and internet. The problems with any downtime is that we more and more are dependent on the web for business and the internet for the business platform. It is not so much how companies are affected – this is not to suggest that it is not important to companies and how revenue is affected – but how, we as consumers, can not do some of our most mundane activities without operational access to the web and internet.

]]> By: Johns http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-1879861 Johns Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:33:51 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/#comment-1879861 I guess Bloglines fears the plumber parody. The last outage they dropped the plumber and went with some spacey looking colored ball wallpaper. And as they kept missing the restore time, they kept bumping the come back time forward on an hourly basis :) I guess Bloglines fears the plumber parody.

The last outage they dropped the plumber and went with some spacey looking colored ball wallpaper. And as they kept missing the restore time, they kept bumping the come back time forward on an hourly basis :)

]]> By: Lapp http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-1879853 Lapp Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:30:08 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/#comment-1879853 Should have gotten a maytag Should have gotten a maytag

]]> By: Andrew http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-1879829 Andrew Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:12:31 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/#comment-1879829 the post needs more links the post needs more links

]]> By: Fake Thomas Hawk http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-1879774 Fake Thomas Hawk Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:54:17 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/#comment-1879774 Well, what about the zoooooomr upgrade debacle? You remember, when we upgraded to Mark III of the photo community sharing site Zooomr that is almost certainly the bestest photo sharing community site in existence and instead of upgrading the site went down for a week and we broadcast the failure LIVE all week and we had to beg for hardware on Scoble's blog and right here on Techcrunch and if Zoho hadn't stepped in the site would probably STILL be down? What about that episode? That should win fail of the year! Well, what about the zoooooomr upgrade debacle?
You remember, when we upgraded to Mark III of the photo community sharing site Zooomr that is almost certainly the bestest photo sharing community site in existence and instead of upgrading the site went down for a week and we broadcast the failure LIVE all week and we had to beg for hardware on Scoble’s blog and right here on Techcrunch and if Zoho hadn’t stepped in the site would probably STILL be down?
What about that episode?
That should win fail of the year!

]]> By: Marcelo Calbucci http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-1879745 Marcelo Calbucci Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:45:16 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/#comment-1879745 I'm pretty sure the Skype outage was Skype's fault, not Microsoft. Microsoft Auto Update triggered a flaw on Skype's network. I’m pretty sure the Skype outage was Skype’s fault, not Microsoft. Microsoft Auto Update triggered a flaw on Skype’s network.

]]> By: Famous Quotes http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-1879740 Famous Quotes Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:42:57 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/#comment-1879740 Nobody ever said Internet was fail-proof - only Titan was unsinkable! Nobody ever said Internet was fail-proof – only Titan was unsinkable!

]]> By: Andy http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-1879719 Andy Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:36:04 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/#comment-1879719 I only remember this :) http://flickr.com/photos/superfrunny/430363168/ I only remember this :)
http://flickr.c...unny/430363168/

]]> By: Intercon http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-1879678 Intercon Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:20:37 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/27/2007-had-its-share-of-internet-woes/#comment-1879678 I thought nobody would ever take the Twitter outages seriously... Good that it's not true. And ironically, their intended, or unintended downtime created press articles for free advertising.. just like the facebook beacon.. I thought nobody would ever take the Twitter outages seriously…

Good that it’s not true.

And ironically, their intended, or unintended downtime created press articles for free advertising.. just like the facebook beacon..

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