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Facebook was down again
Oct 6th
Foursquare Is Down… Yes, Again
Oct 6th
According to a brief update on the company’s new status blog, the same issues that caused yesterday’s 11 hour outage are also responsible for today’s downtime.
The reason for both outages lies in Foursquare’s database management and architecture — that’s not to say Foursquare’s systems engineers are doing anything wrong, per se. But scaling is difficult, tricky business, and Foursquare is growing much more rapidly than is has since its inception.
The launch of Facebook Places about one month ago caused the app’s new registrations to skyrocket Shortly after that launch, Foursquare broke through the 3 million mark.
Lets hope they can iron these issues out without losing support from its users.
Facebook takes on Flickr
Oct 1st
The site’s new bulk tagging options will allow the uploading individual to temporarily group images and tag friends by simply clicking on thumbnails.
Another interesting change is Facebooks lightbox which puts the main focus on the images by creating a darker background box and simple navigation as the picture shows below. This will be activated by clicking on any image through out the Facebook page (Album, News Feed or on friend’s Wall).
As you can see that ads are also appearing in the lightbox which although not great we do understand that hosting hi-res photos More >
New Facebook Updates
Sep 29th