For second time in less than a month, Amazon’s Northern Virginia data center has suffered an outage and is impacting many popular services. Amazon’s status dashboard shows that the Elastic Compute, Elastic Cache, Elastic Mapreduce and Relation Database Services have been out for over an hour. Amazon is blaming the outage on what it...
Daily Archives: June 29, 2012
Amazon web services outage causes Netflix, Instagram, Heroku and more to grind to a halt [Updated: Returning to normal]
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A sizable outage of Amazon’s various web services caused many major web services to crumble on Friday evening. The issues stem from power loss and extend across Amazon’s database, cloud and Elastic Compute services, as indicated by Amazon’s status page. The outages began around 10:45 am EST with outages affecting EC2 instances and EBS volumes, but have...
Twitter’s All Like “We Don’t Need You LinkedIn,” But Still Bends Over Backwards For Facebook
Nothing is more fascinating than the tech platform API wars because they are so, so similar to high school. Once a company feels it’s too cool for another company, it starts shutting off parts of its API to that company, like what happened here with Facebook and Google. It’s basically one of those big,...
Review: The Elevation Dock broke Kickstarter records, but can it beat Apple at the hardware game?
The Elevation Dock gained notoriety back in February of this year when it became the first Kickstarter project to surpass $1M in funding. Now, over four months later, our pre-order dock has arrived and we’ve put it to the test to see if it indeed blows away the options available from Apple. The Elevation...
Unmetric Scores The Virality Of Brands’ YouTube Campaigns
Social benchmarking startup Unmetric just expanded its tools to include YouTube, giving brands a new way to measure the effectiveness of their video campaigns. Of course, companies can already see plenty of stats about their videos — views, likes, and more. But Unmetric tries to synthesize all that data into a single score, and...
Lance Armstrong Has Now Been Formally Charged With Doping — And He Has Already Gone On the Attack
AP See Also Lance Armstrong Responds To Doping Charges — By Savaging USADA As “Arrogant And Craven” And Saying Agency Broke The Law A Follow-Up To That Lance Armstrong Post I Wrote Yesterday… Here Are The New Doping Allegations Lance Armstrong Just Got Hammered With A review board at the US Anti-Doping Agency has...
Developers, bracing themselves for Twitter API restrictions, call today’s post “ominous”
Twitter’s success has long been intertwined with the independent developers that have chosen to use the platform. The third-party ecosystem made Twitter what it is in the most literal fashion possible. That’s why there has been some consternation over a post on Twitter’s developer blog today that coincided to the minute with a post...
Apple Wins Injunction Against Samsung That Blocks Galaxy Nexus Sales In U.S. (AAPL, GOOG)
Steve Kovach, Business Insider Apple won an injunction against Samsung Friday afternoon that bars the sale of the Galaxy Nexus in the U.S. Reuters was the first to report the news. The decision was made by judge Lucy Koh, the same judge who granted Apple’s injunction against Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet earlier this...
This or that? AdMob founder’s startup Maybe can tell you
Sometimes, you’re stuck between a few choices and what you really need is a some helpful advice from friends. But getting feedback isn’t always easy as it sounds, especially when it involves visual options or more in depth decisions. That’s a problem that former AdMob founder and CEO Omar Hamoui is trying to target with...
Alexia’s Headphones: How We Used CrowdTilt’s Group-Funding Platform To Replace Stolen Property
On the 25th of June, our dearest Alexia Tsotsis had an incredibly rough day. First, her car was looted by very bad people in San Francisco, who stole her laptop and a pair of excellent Bose headphones that were near and dear to her heart. And as if that wasn’t enough, her car then...