Last Fall, Yahoo! said it was sunsetting the online bookmarking service, Delicious. After the Internet threw a collective hissy-fit, Yahoo! rescinded in December and said it was looking to sell Delicious, not close it. Now, the new owners have been announced and Yahoo! sent out an e-mail to all Delicious users to inform them of what they need to do during the transition from … [Read more...]
PlayStation Network Still Down And Probably For Another Week; Personal Data of 70 Million Stolen
Between the 17th and 19th of this month, Sony's PlayStation Network and streaming service Qriocity were compromised through an intrusion into the network. Sony was aware of the intrusion on April 19th and shut the service down as a result, first posting of the outage on April 20th. Since then, the PSN has been unavailable for those wanting to use it for online gaming, playing … [Read more...]
Earth Day 2011 Tech News
Happy Earth Day 2011! I was hoping to add solar panels to my home this Spring but the local vendor never got back to me. After crunching some numbers, with current solar panel prices/efficiency, electricity usage, and incentive rebates I decided to put the extra money towards the mortgage as a wiser investment. I'll be looking to install solar panels at a later date but for now … [Read more...]
Reddit is Down, Amazon Blamed 2 – This Time With Confirmation
Just a little over a month ago, a bit of controversy flared up as a result of Reddit's error message. They implied Amazon web services were to blame but the Amazon AWS status page didn't reflect the same problems. A nice, long article resulted from the incident to explain why Reddit was down for 6 hours out of 24. This morning, the popular site is down again and blaming Amazon … [Read more...]
Google Video Is Shutting Down and One Team’s Effort To Save the Content
Google had a period, and it still may, where it would try to build something internally to compete with a cool new project and then if it's product couldn't take the lead, it would acquire the competitor. That pretty much seems to be the story between Google Video (launched January 2005) and YouTube (acquired October 2006), respectively. Google Video never really had an … [Read more...]