Social Media Sites (Over)Heating Up
It really seems like social media sites have been heating up over the past week. Or maybe even overheating. Since I’m such a sucker for looking for patterns, let’s review:
Friday, November 2, 2007:
- Google’s new social media application framework, Opensocial, is hacked within 45 minutes of launch.
Saturday – Sunday, November 3-4, 2007
- Bloggers worldwide had their hearts sink when they saw their Feedburner subscribers at half what they should have been, since they were missing Google Feedcatcher counts.
Monday, November 5, 2007
- The StumbleUpon database was inaccessible for over an hour, and continued to have intermittent issues throughout the day.
- Google social media platform OpenSocial hacked again. By the same guy.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
- Sphinn users reported some issues on site badges showing up correctly. (Note that this was cosmetic and was fixed quickly).
- del.icio.us homepage was for a portion of tonight, but all seems ok now.
I saw the drop in feed counts on FeedBurner, but I’ve seen it before, so I didn’t worry.
I can’t say that I saw any of the down-time on StumbleUpon, but that might have happened outside of my time zone.
But something weird did happened for me today; I had a client call up about an option on their website not working.
When I followed it up, it was because Adobe’s website was down .. the whole damn thing. And that wasn’t our network, because the client is based in Ireland.
You don’t often see the likes of Adobe going down, now do you?
@wayne: yes, once you saw that everyone’s feedburner stats were down, nothing to worry about. StumbleUpon was pretty intermittently crazy, too.
Missed the Adobe downtime, but that sounds pretty bad. All those people needing to download Reader must have finally got the best of them
Thank god it wasn’t Facebook or Myspace for a few hours downtime, would be the end of the world
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@pete: I remember Facebook being inaccessible for about an hour a few weeks ago. Some of my buddies didn’t know what to do with the rest of their life.
I’m sure they do it just to remind us of the outside world. StumbleUpon is far too addictive.
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