2 posts tagged “google”
"That's odd", I thought. I had never actually seen a Google service just fall off the map, even for a short length of time. Nothing that couldn't be fixed with a quick reload, anyhow.
This could be taken as easily visible evidence of the lack of support Dens was referring to when he said (boldface mine):
The other possibility is that Google is, indeed, leaving Dodgeball on the vine to die. This very well may be a serious system problem, but with the founders gone, there may be even less motivation to put resources towards it. Whoever is stuck fixing this is undoubtedly swamped.
It's no real secret that Google wasn't supporting dodgeball the way we expected. The whole experience was incredibly frustrating for us - especially as we couldn't convince them that dodgeball was worth engineering resources, leaving us to watch as other startups got to innovate in the mobile + social space.
There is a third possibility that something is deeply wrong with Google's operations group's monitoring/paging tools - and I've certainly suffered a few outages at work because of similar problems - but that's almost more troubling.
I am utterly baffled about one thing on my other blog. Maybe someone can help me understand this.
Back in December of 2005, I posted my friends code for Animal Crossing. Like I was expecting, I burned out on the game very quickly (as I did for the Gamecube one as well). The post, on the other hand, did not.
A breakdown by time period of approximate number of comments received:
First two days of post: 6
Following two weeks: 6
Following week (contained Christmas & New Years): 11
Following four and a half months: 6
June 2006: 16
July 2006, so far: 31 71
One obvious trend: major shopping holidays (Christmas, DS Lite launch) lead to a mass of postings. But seriously, 71 posts in 24 days?
I realize that if you google for "animal crossing friends", "animal crossing friends code", or "animal crossing friends codes", I'm second - great, Google is broken, we know. But are these people really jumping through the hoops of posting on my blog - which include TypeKey registration - just to post their friends code and pray that someone who posted months ago will add them as well? Do they not understand how this works?
Here's the one that makes me the saddest, emphasis is mine:
HI all, I am new to the DS gaming wordl but I just love Animal Crossing and would love to visit other towns and have others visit my town.
My friends code is 017253618243 please add me and let me know and Iwould love to add you. Thank you!!
P.S. Today is my 39th birthday!!!
Posted by: jerilyn | July 3, 2006 12:00 PM
Related hilarious reading: Stan writes a blog post tangentially referring to R. Kelly. Hilarity ensues.
