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Last week, we wrote about how the Mac and iPhone communities came together to raise money for Haiti. The project, called Indie+Relief is pretty awesome: A bunch of independent Mac and iPhone developers pledged to donate the sales from their apps on January 20 to Haitian aid organizations. Today is the 20th, so if you [...]
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A new wave of panic hit the streets of Haiti this morning as a strong aftershock unleashed even more destruction on the ravaged country. This secondary quake was estimated at 6.1 magnitude, but reports on further damage aren’t yet available. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, today’s earthquake was centered 26 miles west-northwest of Jacmel. [...]
Twitter Down: It’s Not Just You Seeing the Fail Whale
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20 Jan 2010Update: After 45 minutes of downtime, the Twitter team has responded: “We are experiencing an outage due to an extremely high number of whales. Our on-call team is working on a fix.” Did whales clog the Twitter’s series of tubes or something? In any case, with Twitter on the case it won’t be long until [...]
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In the face of disaster, small acts of heroism can add up. Even sending a simple SMS can lead to more than $20 million raised for relief efforts surrounding the Haiti earthquake. Enter another small act of heroism, this time on the part of CNN anchor Anderson Cooper. While filming in Haiti, Cooper was in [...]
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Twitter Down: It’s Not Just You Seeing the Fail Whale [UPDATED]
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20 Jan 2010Update: After about an hour of downtime, Twitter seems to be up and running. Here’s what the Twitter team had to say: “We are experiencing an outage due to an extremely high number of whales. Our on-call team is working on a fix.” It’s good to know that Twitter got those extra fail whales out [...]