Tag: LiveJournal

Google Working on Social Network Aggregator

Tags: Google + Brad Fitzpatrick + LiveJournal

MarcoPolo
Posted by MarcoPolo 1 year 11 days ago; via bradfitz.com/social-graph...

Brad Fitzpatrick, the founder of LiveJournal, who recently left Six Apart for Google has published notes on what he's going to be working on moving forward:

Currently if you're a new site that needs the social graph (e.g. dopplr.com) to provide one fun & useful feature (e.g. where are your friends traveling and when?), then you face a much bigger problem then just implementing your main feature. You also have to have usernames, passwords (or hopefully you use OpenID instead), a way to invite friends, add/remove friends, and the list goes...

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Power Outages In San Francisco Bring Down Major Websites

Tags: Outage + SOMA + Netflix + AdBrite + Technorati + Craigslist + Typepad + Vox + LiveJournal

Kevom
Posted by Kevom 1 year 1 month ago; via laughingsquid.com/massive...

6 back-to-back power outages hit the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco Tuesday afternoon causing major havoc with popular web services. 365 Main is down, along with craigslist, Netflix, Technorati, Yelp, AdBrite, SixApart (including TypePad, LiveJournal and Vox) and it caused some problems at Current TV as well.

So the big question, where is the backup power at the data centers used by these services? UPS and diesel generators should normally be used a situation like this.

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