Facebook outage

Here’s pictures from lunch toda with Mr Brown

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremiah_owyang/tags/facebook/

Site was up and down Robert for over 12 hours, starting going flaky @ AM GMT and wasn’t fully resolved for at least 8 hours

What you Facebook PR now?

One more VC: no, but I am definitely following Facebook and reporting on news I see.

This statement has been printed by TechCrunch and others. Are you asking them if they are Facebook PR too?

We took a new Facebook application live today. (http://apps.facebook.com/wmnewshound) “Newshound” had a press release, several blog posts, and emails announcing its debut. Then Facebook went down.–

It was a little frustrating. I can screw-up my own apps; I don’t need any help. People were sending me emails saying, “Nice one, buddy, your app doesn’t work.”

I suppose these are the chances we take with our new model of software interdependence. Maybe we need to pass the collection plate. What do you need Facebook? Whatever it takes to keep you running…

Facebook fanboy.

down again

Hopefully this outage has let us to expand our social network horizon.

Mark from ClutterMe.com

“The result was that an isolated group of users could see some pages that were not intended for them.”

Perhaps not a “security breach,” but the impact is much the same, is it not? People were able to see data they were not supposed to see … smells like a security problem to me.

Face book has been done, or unavailable for over 5 hours .. the message displayed says its maintenance

Wonder if thats true

Rick: I’m on Facebook right now. It’s working for me.

Facebook was down???? Ok, slightly facetious, but just goes to show you can’t put all your eggs in one basket. Just go about doing the rest of your stuff, it’ll still be there tomorrow.

I can tell you that I was logging into other peoples profiles the whole day. I could read their inbox messages amongst other things. I also realized that every time I refreshed the profile page, it would be logged in as a different user.

I was with Dan Farber this morning when he got the exact same message on his Blackberry.

Funny, it wasn’t a planned meeting, we just bumped into each other randomly in the bar of my hotel. He was passing down the street and saw me in the window, and came in. Small world.

This is something I’ve noticed; maybe there’s a future blog post in it: Anything to do with Web 2.0, whether we’re talking about something big [Google], medium [Twitter, Facebook] or tiny [gapingvoid, The Assimilated Negro blog] has an Achilles heel. I have yet to find an exception to the rule.

PS: I totally concur with Rachel’s comment:

“Facebook was down???? Ok, slightly facetious, but just goes to show you can’t put all your eggs in one basket. Just go about doing the rest of your stuff, it’ll still be there tomorrow.”

“One more VC”?

“One more passive-aggressive schmuck who’s afraid to stand for to the name his parents, in their love, gifted him”, more like

Sorry to be an asshole, Robert, but “Strong Opinions+Anonymity=Scum of The Earth”.

I love it! People are addicted to CrackBook. This just reinforces how important they have become, that everyone is blogging/reporting this outage.

@17 [hugh macleod]

One more passive-aggressive schmuck who’s afraid to stand for to the name his parents, in their love, gifted him

Sorry to be an asshole, Robert, but “Strong Opinions+Anonymity=Scum of The Earth

@15: [hugh macleod]

Anything to do with Web 2.0, whether we’re talking about something big [Google], medium [Twitter, Facebook] or tiny [gapingvoid, The Assimilated Negro blog] has an Achilles heel. I have yet to find an exception to the rule.

This- all in response to @4 [One more VC]:

What you Facebook PR now?

Awfully amusing. I do not get your point Hugh. Are you saying that Robert’s latest post on Facebook – something close to his 100th in the last 14 days – isn’t close to PR?

You chose to slam the poster without addressing the post. So… I haven’t a clue to your point.

Yes Robert. This is me. The guy who – jeez, are you somehow forcing sound effects on me?

Aw crap nevermind. If posting a coherent comment on your blog means I have to endure BS like sound effects – you’ve jumped the shark BIG time.

@15 “This is something I’ve noticed; maybe there’s a future blog post in it: Anything to do with Web 2.0, whether we’re talking about something big [Google], medium [Twitter, Facebook] or tiny [gapingvoid, The Assimilated Negro blog] has an Achilles heel. I have yet to find an exception to the rule.”

Doesn’t that apply to any software? If we are to believe Facebook’s PR is sounds like they had a breakdown in regression testing and/or overall testing and QA. Happens in almost any software development project at one time or another. I don’t see how what happened to Facebook is unique to “Web 2.0″ Unless you are suggesting these Web 2.0 companies have poor testing procedure as a whole. In which case, then yes, that is their Achilles heal.

good good
i did twitter about it LOL

I would love to see a social website with the following features:

- Encrypted login
- Session encrypted from start to finish
- Blog, IM, file sharing, email
- Site cookies expire at session end
- Site does not maintain logs
- Preferrably offshore

This is what I would like to see. Hushmail handles email this way, but I would like to see all of the above from one provider.

I’ve never heard of twittergrams before. Thanks for the knowledge.