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June 18th, 2008

LinkedIn, Technorati, FireFox 3 and Slideshare: we all fall down

Posted by Dennis Howlett @ 7:37 am

Categories: Social computing

Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, LinkedIn, Technorati, Twitter, Web Browsers, Internet, Dennis Howlett

slideshareTo Zoli Erdos’ tongue in cheek crack at LinkedIn, Technorati and FireFox failures I can confidently add Slideshare. Although it doesn’t make the cut for speed of failure following funding, ($3 million raised in May), it is behaving very badly today.

I have a penchant for crashing applications but on this occasion I checked with my Twitter friends and sure enough, Slideshare is failing to load or is, at best, s-l-o-w.

On the other hand, I am pleased to report that Twitter is behaving rather well. For a change. :) That will please my friend David Terrar who just Tweeted to say he visited a prospect that has a couple of restaurants. They use Twitter for staff communications. Brave edglings.

Dennis HowlettDennis Howlett has been providing comment and analysis on enterprise software since 1991. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.

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the download site was down temporarily, so I guess that means FF is a failure. I remember Microsoft's website being completely down a number of years ago...I think it was during Slammer. I guess tha... (Read the rest)
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