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WordPress.com Outage / 10.2 million blogs down

Written by geekE Management | Published on February 19, 2010

Yesterday, about 10.2 MILLION blogs fell off the face of the planet for just Under 2 hours when WordPress.com experienced it’s first major outage in four years. In all, about 5.5 million pageviews lost in those 110 minutes of downtime.

According to Matt Mullenweg, the downtime was caused by an unscheduled “core router” change at one of WordPress.com’s datacenter providers. I find it fascinating that a core router change at one data center broke failover mechanisms that should have shifted services over to another working DC. True to Automattic’s slogan, “Inspired by you, Striving to create good, Nothing is perfect.”, it seem someone was less than perfect in designing their failover system… and then forgot to test it.

Posted in Content Publishing, WordPress | Tagged Automattic, Blog, Data center, Downtime, Matt Mullenweg, Router, WordPress, WordPress.comLeave a comment

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 coming to AT&T

Written by geekE Management | Published on February 16, 2010

BGR has it on good authority that the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 will definitely be showing up at AT&T “Pretty Soon”. Expected to sell at $199 with a two year contract.

Size: 119 x 63 x 13 mm
Weight: 135 grams
Phone memory: Up to 1 GB
Memory card support: microSD™
Memory card included: 8 GB
Operating system: Google™ Android Donut, version 1.6
Processor: 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon™ QSD8250

I’m really impress by the TimeScape feature. It integrates several social media providers into one place.

Several more videos are available at Sony Ericsson.

Posted in Android, Mobile News, News Archives, Sony Ericsson | Tagged Android, business, Google, MicroSD, Searching, Snapdragon, Sony Ericsson, Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, TimeScape, X10, XperiaLeave a comment

WordPress 2.9.2 Security Upgrade

Written by geekE Management | Published on February 15, 2010

This one seems rather minor, but could be an issue for some sites. WordPress 2.9.2 fixes a problem with registered users being able to “peek” into your trash. Nothing I’ll be getting my panties bunched up over, but since the upgrade process is like 2 clicks and a password, just do it!

Posted in Content Publishing, News Archives, WordPress | Tagged Blog, upgrade, WordPress, WordPress 2.9.2Leave a comment

iPad Beta

Written by geekE Management | Published on February 2, 2010

Centercode, the guys behind OnlineBeta.com, have just announced a new community: iPadBeta.com.

iPad Beta

We’re pleased to announce iPadBeta.com, a new unique user community being offered by Centercode. Unlike other communities we’ve announced in the past which use our software, iPadBeta.com is owned by Centercode and will act as a sister community to OnlineBeta.com, but focused specifically on the Apple mobile platform

Very similar to the OnlineBeta.com project, iPadBeta will allow users to sign up to test new iPad/iPhone/iTouch apps. The site allows users to chat about the new product in forums, create problem reports and submit bug reports.

App developers will have FREE access to a wealth of knowledge and, what I’m sure will be, a huge tester community.

App Developers are each given their own private projects which include bug and feature tracking, custom surveys, discussion forums, custom wikis, build distribution, tester participation monitoring, reporting, and much more. iPadBeta.com will also recruit App Testers matching the Developers market; or they can invite their own friends and customers. Developers will also have access to market research materials on the App market, as well as the ability to request custom research. These services are all offered at no cost, with no ads.

Head on over to iPadBeta and join in!

Posted in News Archives, Tablets, iPad, iPhone | Tagged Apple, Handhelds, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, iTouch, SmartphonesLeave a comment

iPad Pics, dimensions and first impressions

Written by geekE Management | Published on January 26, 2010

Well, it finally happened… Way back in July, many speculated about a tablet coming from Apple, and now we get to see how close everyone came with their guesses.

Am I disappointed? Well … yes and no. It’s cool, it’s really f-ing cool. It’s almost exactly what I expected from Apple, but it’s not exactly what I wanted.

I think it’s evident by many of the speculative renderings that some additional connectivity was expected. We wanted, at the very least, a built in USB port. I think the other thing everyone wanted was a full-blown version of OS-X and not the iPod Touch software running on a large screen.

Oh, and can I just mention the name…. Uhm. iPad just sounds like a feminine product. I don’t know why, since crunchpad sounds like a great name and doesn’t bring tampax to mind, but I can’t shake the image….

Anyway — I can’t wait to get my hands on one for a little real-word play. Maybe it’ll be enough for me — at the very least, it’ll make a great little news-reader and e-book platform.

Posted in Hardware, Mobile News, Tablets, iPad, iPhone | Tagged Apple, Apple iPod, AppStore, CrunchPad, E-book, Hardware, iPhone, IpodTouch, OS X, Shopping, Universal Serial BusLeave a comment

What will we see at MWC next month? 6.6?

Written by Travis Burrell | Published on January 14, 2010

Microsoft’s Mobile World Congress is just about four weeks away now, & WMPowerUser is heavily speculating (along with many others) that Windows Mobile 7 will be announced at the annual conference. That’s announced, mind you; I don’t see any devices showing up with it on board until Q4. Though WMPU has quite a compelling list of reasons, DigiTimes (which is known for being accurate on these sorts of things) is saying that it won’t be the new version 7 that will be trotted out, but yet another interim release, version 6.6.

Seeing as how we’ve just seen 6.5.3, plus its threaded email glory, hit the interwebz, & that DigiTimes says that 6.6 will be the same ol’ plus capacitive touch screen support, I can definitely see this line of thought playing out. The disheartening bit in the DigiTimes piece is that WM7 may be sloughed off till 2011… but would anyone really be surprised about that at this point?

Guess we’ll see in four weeks….

Posted in Mobile News, Windows Mobile 6.6, Windows Mobile 7 | Tagged Add new tag, Mobile World Congress, windows mobile, Windows Mobile 7Leave a comment

Nexus One Day – reviews published

Written by Travis Burrell | Published on January 5, 2010

: Image via CrunchBase

Today’s the day that Google is expected to officially announce its Nexus One Android phone, custom built by HTC. The details & rumors have been swirling for over two months now, & Google is expected to make some waves today, just two days before CES kicks off. According to the link above, the press conference is scheduled to begin at 10am PST, so to tide you over until then, why don’t you read Engadget’s official review? Lots of good stuff in there, including a side-by-side-by-side web browser loading times with the Droid and iPhone.

Posted in Android, HTC, Mobile News | Tagged Android, Consumer Electronics Show, Google, HTC, HTC Corporation, Nexus OneLeave a comment

Wordpress 2.9.1 released – Bunch of bug fixes!

Written by geekE Management | Published on January 4, 2010

Hey all — New version of WordPress has been released. Just about three weeks after the release of WordPress 2.9, version 2.9.1 hits the street with several bug fixes.

Many believed that the release of 2.9 was a bit premature after tons of users reported issues related to CURL (curl_setopt() to be specific) and several other issues, so the dev team took a few weeks to get these fixes tested in the form of a beta and RC1 version before finally releasing it as a final. We’ve been testing the updates on several sites and they have in fact fixed all of the problems we were seeing.

Grab your upgrade at WordPress.org or use your auto-update feature (after backing up your database, of course).