[Devils Workshop] “Google’s Blogger Faces Downtime: Trouble in the Cloud!” and 1 more...

Google’s Blogger Faces Downtime: Trouble in the Cloud!

Posted: 13 May 2011 08:56 AM PDT

Google has often talked a lot about the cloud. Store everything you want online and access it anywhere. This all sounds fantastic most times until the moment something goes wrong. The popular blogging platform Blogger.com is down.

This service has been down for a few hours and this probably shakes confidence of people in Cloud services. It seems they are removing posts temporarily, which were created after 7.37 AM PDT, 11th May 2011.

Here is a quote from Blogger Status:

To get Blogger back to normal, all posts since 7:37am PDT on Weds, 5/11 have been temporarily removed. We expect everything to be back to normal soon. Sorry for the delay.

A few months ago, Gmail outage had also caused concern with Google users. Stay tuned to this post and I will update it when blogger is available again.

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Search Engine Mixed With Social Bookmarking [SearchTeam]

Posted: 13 May 2011 05:06 AM PDT

The process of search for the end-user has not really changed over the past decade. Mostly we type in some keywords and get relevant results.

Social search is forcing people to change the way we use search. With SearchTeam, a user can search on certain things, along with a team. I find it a very useful tool, especially if you are a group of students who are researching a topic and need to do it collaboratively. Collaborative search surely decreases repetitive work by a team.

SearchTeam Features

I needed to register to use the service. Registration or sign-up can be done with your Linked in or Facebook account. I used my Google Account and that works too.
When it came to search, I could create different search projects and save links into folders.

I could invite my friends to join and carry out collaborative search. My friends added to the search project could look up and edit all the links.

Search Team's Video Demo

I think this would work a lot better if you are in a study group and researching material together. It could be a great way to start a new research. Do drop in your comments.

Link: SearchTeam

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