Myspace Power Outage

Myspace experienced some downtime on Sunday and the effects are still hurting the Myspace experience.

“According to Netcraft Ltd., a British company that monitors Web site performance, MySpace was completely offline for about 90 minutes Sunday. The rest of the time, profiles were inaccessible as MySpace had a temporary page with the Pac-Man game and an outage announcement, which Netcraft said came from another data center in Tempe, Ariz.

One would think that the biggest social network in the world would be a little more stable. Rich Miller agrees:

“It’s unusual to see an outage like this where the systems that were in place clearly didn’t work as intended,” Netcraft analyst Rich Miller said. “I’m sure they will be looking very closely at what happened to try to prevent it from happening again.”

Either way Myspace will not suffer from the outages. The users on Myspace have become so used to slow performance, random downtime, and ugly design that no error on Myspace’s part could hurt their user base. The only way Myspace loses it’s grip on the social networking of kids if a FAR superior product comes out in the near future. So far, nothing of the sort has been released.

MySpace said it was exploring ways to prevent a recurrence.”

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Facebook Revamps It’s Photo Section

Social networks such as Flickr have enjoyed major success in the world of social networking via photos. Facebook has always paid serious attention to this aspect of social networks, and this trend has continued with their re-worked photos section. Last week Facebook started the transformation of their “My Photos” page, and now the transformation seems to be complete. Speaking of Flickr, the new design is “Flickrey.” Anyway, the most useful feature is the “recently tagged friends.” Instead of going to your friends’ page and searching endlessly for new pictures, Facebook tells you when a new photo of your friend has been added.

We’ll see if Facebook continues to focus on the photos section. The company has shown that a functional and useful photo aspect to a social network will help keep users coming back daily. Not that college kids need more reason to be addicted!