“Is Facebook down again?”
Category:Websites
"Is Facebook down?" The question doesn’t necessarily have to be about Facebook, it can be about any website around the world. It’s a question you can hear at the office from colleagues, at school from friends or at home from relatives.
Most of the time it isn’t the case and its just you who’s not getting the connection. Still, you or the other person in the conversation tries to log on to check if the site or service you’re trying to reach is really down.
When a website is down, people start looking for confirmation. Most of the time they use search engines to figure out if a website is really down or not. Postings like this one on Mashable therefore keep getting views and comments, long after the post was written.
Questions like this one can now be answered with one simple line, a url: downforeveryoneorjustme.com checks if a service is online or that its just you who has to reboot your computer or internet connection. I know that from now on I will give anyone who askes me that question this url…
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[lang_nl]De top vijf deze week staat, hoe kan het ook anders, volledig in het teken van The Next Web 2008. Alle vijf de items zijn afkomstig van The Next Web. Het is mijn persoonlijke top vijf voor de ‘Next-Web-dagen’. Daarbij uiteraard de prijs voor Dutch Cowboys, het interview van Mark de Kock met Scoble en enkele presentaties. En vanwege het verbazingwekkende publiek: Diggnation.
Most weblogs have a ‘blogroll’. This is a list of websites and weblogs ‘recommended’ by the author of the weblog. Having a link on that list can sometimes be very interesting for search engine marketing purposes. If you feel the need of putting this weblog in your blogroll I therefore wouldn’t mind : ).