Entries tagged " downtime "  

Site Was DOWWNN

I am embarrassed to admit this but this site was down for about 24 hours. Mainly because I just didn't check anything and never got around to setting up any sort of monitoring. Luckily I got a phone call from a friend, and reader, who wanted to know what as going on. That was yesterday and I forgot to check the site last night.. Oops! Sorry about that..

I also want to apologize for the lack of posting lately. Been very busy with some new developments in my life. I recently sold my interests in a web hosting company I was involved in. So yet again, I am working from home. I still am involved with SmartJabber and have been spending a lot of time working on that software as well.

I'm also doing some contract work with a buddy of mine. Nothing to fancy, just some Python + Django development. Of course I am still working on my internet marketing and I have a great idea for an entirely new product. I am working on creating that product now and it will include many things, including custom software, video tutorials, etc. As far as I know, it will be an original product for a specific niche.

So that's it. A quick update. I have some larger articles in the works I just haven't had much time to work on them. I will sit down this week and hammer some out!

Technorati Tags: business, downtime, internet marketing, marketing, update

Twitter - I Jumped On The Bandwagon...

With everyone always yapping and blogging about Twitter, I decided to create a profile and see what all the hype is about. Honestly, I don't see it as being as "friendly" as Groovr (disclosure: I did work for Groovr for some time) so I don't get what all the fuss is about.

I've started following a few people and feel like I've got the hang of it. I will slowly add more people as I continue to navigate the Twitter sea. You can find me on twitter here.

There has been some rumblings this week about Twitter as a service. It appears to be down constantly, although I have yet to notice an outage (but I just started, and still barely use, twitter). TechCrunch has been discussing twitter and their inner turmoils for some time now.

I find it fascinating that Twitter has a service has grown to be so popular, and more importantly, depended upon by it's huge user base. I've seen writings about how to use Twitter to market (something I should probably get into while it's still a fresh & young idea). Can a quick 140 text message really compete with the social networking marketing power that sites like MySpace and Facebook provide?

We shall see (said the blind men.. or something like that)

Technorati Tags: downtime, facebook, marketing, myspace, social network, twitter