Amazon's EC2 cloud storage service had some problems while we were all sleeping last night (Read: IT CRASHED), causing a few websites we've come to know and love to take a brief nap (Read: THEY CRASHED). More »
What goes on behind your favorite websites? Well, it depends! If it's Twitter, it's a bit chaotic with little birds posting your tweets. If it's Apple, it's as clean as the back of the iPad. Take a look at more backsides of websites over at Backofawebpage.com. I just love the thinking that goes into all of these. [Back of a Webpage via BuzzFeed] More »
Last Thursday, a Twitter account purported to be from Wikileaks' Anonymous supporters (the same group which brought down PayPal, Mastercard and Visa's websites) threatened to take down Amazon in a similar DDoS attack. Seemingly it failed, but Amazon's websites in the UK, Italy, Germany and Spain went offline for about 30 minutes each last night, due to a "hardware failure in our European datacenter network," claims an Amazon rep. More »
StumbleUpon, an excellent service for finding cool websites, just launched App Discovery for Android, aiming to help users find something even more elusive than cool websites: cool apps! It'll look at the apps you already have and suggest similar ones. More »
