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12.19.05
Web 2.0 Online Woes Persist
 By
David Utter
Typepad seems to have overcome its recent 18-hour outage and RSS reader site Bloglines has a datacenter migration planned; but recent Yahoo acquisition of social bookmarking site del.icio.us now has the "Closed" sign posted.
Visitors to popular bookmarking site del.icio.us are welcomed this morning with a message about the service's unavailability:
Due to the power outage earlier in the week, we appear a number of continued hiccups. We've taken everything offline to properly rebuild and restore everything. I apologize and hope to have this resolved as soon as possible. Thank you for your continued patience.
Updates will be posted on our blog as we have them.
At 8:00 am ET, del.icio.us was still leaving a taste of disappointment with its users.
Bloglines has been fighting the perils of success itself. They have scheduled a move to a new datacenter for December 19th, and the service will be unavailable until 8:00 pm PT.
As for Typepad, all appears to be well again. The latest updated from the popular blogging service shows green lights and Up statuses for Typepad's blogs and services:
As of 4:00 am PST (Sunday) morning, most photos or files uploaded over the past several days have been restored. We are working on the remaining images and this should be complete by this evening.
On Friday, Typepad noted issue with its "primary disk system where data from published blogs are stored." Technorati's Niall Kennedy had more on the problem posted to his site. He interviewed Six Apart VP of Professional Products Anil Dash and asked what happened:
I felt a little bit like Charlie Brown when Lucy pulls the football out. It was absolutely one of those situations where we had tackled the problems that caused application performance issues in the past and we wanted to make sure we were bulletproof. At the point where we are kind of putting up another line of defense we kind of hit ourselves on the head and got knocked out. The timing was terrible and it just one of those things where Murphy's Law will just always win.
The Web Master Has A Blog
Tim Berners-Lee, whose work at CERN led to the creation of the World Wide Web, has joined the blogosphere himself.
"So I have a blog," wrote Berners-Lee as the title to his first blog entry. "So this is for all the people who have been saying I ought to have a blog," he wrote in closing the first post.
(Ok, he uses So to start a sentence a couple of times, give him a break, if it wasn't for him you'd be using gopher or BBS right now and uudecoding images instead of just seeing them open in your browser.)
If there was any doubt Berners-Lee was a forward thinker in the mode of the great scientists and sci-fi writers, he was considering concepts 16 years ago that have become commonplace today:
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In 1989 one of the main objectives of the WWW was to be a space for sharing information. It seemed evident that it should be a space in which anyone could be creative, to which anyone could contribute.
Now in 2005, we have blogs and wikis, and the fact that they are so popular makes me feel I wasn't crazy to think people needed a creative space.
Search Engine Watch pointed out the blog had eight pages of comments; it's since increased to nine.
Of course, now we'll have to see if Berners-Lee keeps it updated. Or if he'll place ads on his blog. (Certainly he wouldn't. Would he?)
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