Filed under: Internet, Microblogging
Twitter down, Facebook funky, where's your ego-massaging messiah now?
So what? Well, I'm sure it'll all work itself out somehow. But centralized, walled systems (Facebook, I'm looking at your wall there) are bound to outage whereas distributed, open systems are less likely to suffer a similar fate. As usual, Dave Winer was right. (Note: Dave's not always right, but here I agree with him)
As TechCrunch points out, these things happen. Even the mothership at AOL suffered a massive AIM outage the day Michael Jackson died, and the NOC in Virginia is one serious monster of a server farm. But it's interesting to see the ebb and flow of the social masses as they move from one felled site to another, sometimes breaking branches as they go. Looks like Bebo and MySpace are unaffected. Ahem.
Update: Uh oh, did Kim Jong Il get upset about not being a trending topic? Ev says Twitter was and is fending off a denial-of-service attack.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
