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Yahoo! Mexico posted a photo I took last halloween on the front page of their site. That’s pretty cool. Almost 6,000 people have clicked through to view the photo page today alone, making it now my most viewed photo on Flickr.
The mummy was back again this year, and I got a shot of it with [...]
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So MSFT is trying to spend $45 BILLION dollars to buy Yahoo. Rumour has it that the borg want Yahoo’s search and advertising stuff, which would be a little odd – I can’t remember the last time I searched using Yahoo, or saw a Yahoo-powered ad. Whatever.
But, Yahoo does own two resources that I care [...]
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Jim posted about Yahoo! Shortcuts, and while the WordPress plugin sounds cool (it claims to scan a blog post and automagically find links to blog posts, flickr photos, and other sources of info), I’m not sure how well it’ll translate into real life. It looks like it scans the blog entry as you’re writing it, [...]
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Maybe Eduglu is just a set of metapipes? LifeHacker gives a thorough howto for creating a personal überfeed from all of your separate feeds, complete with sorting and filtering.
Now, I'm off to play some more with Pipes…
ps. this was blogged using BlogBridge's cool new "blog this" feature. Slick.
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Here’s hoping the Yahoo! team throws more (or better) hardware at the del.icio.us server. This sign was spotted at the current colocation facility:
I hadn’t noticed that del.icio.us was down, but a comment from Rob tipped me off.
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This has me a little nervous. I sure hope Joshua/Yahoo! have decent backups…
There were over 700 bookmarks in there this morning. Now it’s saying my account is empty. Man, that would suck. Definitely the major downside of using an offsite bookmark manager…
It seems like del.icio.us was more stable before Yahoo! got involved. Maybe this is just a big Moving Of Servers from Joshua’s basement to the Yahoo datacentre?
It looks like it might be just my account. I’ve checked several others, and they all appear to be behaving normally. Crap.
Update: Whew. It’s back. Running delicious2Safari now…
Update 2: OK. Got my stuff backed up just before stuff started hitting the fan… All del.icio.us pages are now responding with this:
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.
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Come, on, Yahoo! Get del.icio.us into your data centre… Apparently there was a power failure in the server hosting facility where del.icio.us has been living (assuming it’s not in Yahoo Central yet), and it’s been barfing all over everything all day. I just went to get some links from my account, and got this instead:
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Well, this explains a lot – first, a serious congratulations to Joshua, and kudos to Yahoo for picking up del.icio.us. (and thanks to Les Orchard for the heads up)
I’ve been wondering about the business model for del.icio.us since before I started using it – wondering how it was going to be paid for. It’s a free service, with no ads. Soaking up ungodly amounts of resources and bandwidth. Now that it’s Yet Another Yahoo Family Member, it should benefit from Yahoo’s infrastructure, and lose the imperative to “monetize” – since it’s part of the value-add for Yahoo.
Here’s hoping the first thing the Yahoo server fairies do is throw some über high-end hardware at the service to help alleviate the occasional performance issues…
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