The MTA's website was borked this morning after 500,000 New Yorkers tried to find information about the snowstorm, Transportation Nation reports. The influx was almost twice the 270,000 who tried to get to MTA.info during December's... MORE >
Did you know Aol's email service was down for more than 12 hours yesterday? Exactly. About 4 percent of Aol Mail users were frozen out of their accounts yesterday and emails sent to them were rejected, MSNBC's Wilson Rothman reports. Aol Mail users are still missing emails that disappeared during the... MORE >
Tumblr has a new mascot--the Tumbeast. Tumblr has been drowning in its own popularity lately, reminded users of Twitter's frequent outages in the early days. But Twitter has a lovable downtime mascot, the "fail whale' drawn by artist Yiying Lu, which has had an article in The New York Times Magazine and has its own fan club. Tumblr's error message, by contrast, is a flip-style marquee with the infuriating message "We'll be back... MORE >
Service over at the local blogmonger Tumblr has been sputtering over the past month or so. But the site's error page, an old-fashioned flip board that says "We'll be back shortly," is nowhere near as cute as Twitter's fail whale. Adam Hemphill, a San Francisco developer who works for Wired, created wellbebackshortly.com so people could have something to look at during Tumblr's not-infrequent... MORE >
Are the holidays crashing our social media? The popular voice, video and chat service Skype, which may be one of the few companies with more users than Facebook, was down this morning. "Calm down, everyone: Skype is down because Julian needs to make a private phone call," wrote one commenter on the tech blog... MORE >
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