Twitter is down… Has the world stopped spinning?

Jeff — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:40:12 +0000

It’s 10am EST and Twitter has been down since about 9:15 or so. What is one to do? Surely Facebook will be the natural alternative, but who wants to limit their pondering to just one social networking outlet?

By coincidence, I was just reading a post on Read Write Web on the potential dangers od cloud computing. How many businesses suffer when the king of 140 characters goes down? Would anyone care if MySpace went down?

These are the questions of our times. A highly-aware society with our fingers on the pulse of the news. We can’t wait for any offical confirmation. If it comes up as a trending topic on Twitter, it must be true! Now, we have to wallow in the alternative universe of actual news sites… What are we? Barbarians?

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Cloud Computing! The sky’s the limit!

Jeff — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:29:06 +0000

Much of what we’ll discuss here takes place in, or interacts with, the cloud. The “cloud” is just another metaphor for the Internet. If you’ve done any online banking, used online email, like gmail, or you’re on Facebook or LinkedIn, then you’ve been cloud computing.

What makes it cloud computing is the fact that the application you’re using and the data you’re manipulating all live online. There is no desktop version. If you’re not connected, you can’t accomplish your task (check a balance, write an email, etc.).(...)
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