Kohl&#39;s Web site down for at least two days
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Mid-priced retailer Kohl&#39;s Corp  Internet shopping is unavailable until at least Wednesday as  the company makes improvements, according to its Web site.
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Plus: eBay outlines policy on racist language. [News.com Extra]
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I love Twitter, but there have been a lot of problems, and this is too much. They're taking it down tonight, for two hours, and we're hot on a big story, and it's developing -- on Twitter. This seems like a bad night for Twitter to go to sleep. (But there probably never is a good night.) I don't think the Twitter guys really understand how much we're doing with their service.  It's been going down a lot lately. And while other people have been complaining about it losing posts, I had never seen it lose one, until yesterday, and now it's losing them regularly, for me too. Read the first three words of this post again.  They raised $5 million, it seems now it's time for them to get the bugs out, hire some people who really understand scaling, if necessary re-implement the system from the ground up. Do whatever is needed to make it as reliable as the other tools we depend on. We need Twitter to work. It's not a fun experiment for us, we're using it.  Jack, Ev, Biz, Fred -- please take note. Postscript: The announcement changed, now they're saying it'll be down on Sunday night. Much better. Thanks!
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By ANICK JESDANUN; Associated Press  Wal-Mart's and Amazon's online locations work to overcome problems in handling high traffic.   * * *   NEW YORK - High traffic disrupted Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s Web site for much of yesterday, one of the year's busiest shopping days.
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Today's failure: The Independent The Independent newspaper's website fell over early this morning and is still struggling to get back on its feet.â¦
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NEW YORK - Web sites for President Bush&#39;s campaign and the Republican National Committee had outages for several hours yesterday.
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A website outage at Netflix makes a bad week even worse.
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There's a big yellow bar on the Twitter home page today saying it will be down for maintenence betw 10AM and 10PM today. I haven't heard any grumbling about this, but it's worth a bit of a grumble. What other basic form of communication goes down for 12 hours at a time? What if the web went offline for 12 hours at a time? It's unthinkable, because the web is built on the Internet and is decentralized and redundant. A single router or server can go down for a few hours, days or forever, and the web keeps on tickin.  Same with email. If Gmail started having twelve-hour planned outages, as much as I like Gmail, I'd switch. I can't be without email for any extended period of time.  Okay, let's give the guys at Twitter credit -- they stopped being flip about Twitter taking naps or showers. No one likes jokes when a line of communication is down. Now I'd like them to take another step. Assuming these long outages are really necessary, explain to us what they're for. I can take a guess -- something about their database needs changing, and all the data in all the files must be processed to implement the change. Any updates made while such a process is running would be lost, so the server must be shut off. But this is just a guess.  Another guess -- maybe they've hired a scaling expert who needs to make one final major adjustment before these outages are a thing of the past? No one would want to make such a promise, that's offering too much temptation to Dr Murphy, but that would be good news. Maybe Twitter is getting on to solid ground, finally.  It's fairly amazing that there isn't a viable Twitter clone out there yet. I'd also like to see something much more decentralized, based on static files, available to any Twitter-like system. It doesn't seem that far out of reach. With all the scaling troubles Twitter has had it's surprising that there haven't yet been any entrepreneurs willing to enter the space as competition to Twitter.  Users and developers are learning first-hand why centralized systems are so fragile. I'm sure they're doing a heroic job at Twitter, the best they can with what they have, but it's not good enough when the service takes a 12-hour break while many of the humans that depend on it are awake and working.
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After an onslaught of criticism for privacy violations connected to various online initiatives, Sears has taken part of one of the offending sites offline.
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My friend Brian Smith of Comparison Engines and SingleFeed is currently running a promotion for Search Engine Journal readers to help them submit nd optimize their shopping cart feed for free to Froogle / Google Base. Cyber Monday is only 10 days away.  If you&#8217;re not up on the shopping comparison engines, you&#8217;re potentionally [...]
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Found in the search marketing forums: Major Site Exclusion Failure; Reciprocal Links Are (Still) Not Dead; Tips or Tools for Viewing Location-Specific Ads; and more.
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By Shawn Day, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Jun. 23--WILLIAMSBURG -- A blog that took to task Web sites supporting and opposing College of William and Mary President Gene Nichol is being shut down and replaced by another site.
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SEATTLE Amazon-dot-com says things are running normally again on its Web site after a sometimes sluggish Monday. A spokeswoman says the world&#39;s largest Internet retailer began experiencing &quot;a slowness&quot; Monday morning.
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Web site crops up for New Yorkers who've lost a mitten or glove. Excluding baby-animal sites, could anything be sweeter?
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Amazon.com said Monday that its Web site was experiencing slowdowns, and the company didn't immediately know when the problem would be fixed.
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InfoWorld - The Google Analytics Web site monitoring service suffered an outage that affected some users for more than 24 hours this week, prompting many to vent on blogs and forums their frustration with the situation and with what they perceived as unresponsiveness on Google&#39;s part.
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Gabe: I'm pretty frustrated with the Dunder Mifflin Infinity ARG. The site functionality is just trash. The biggest offense is the piece of shit forum they've got. It's the one way for the whole branch to talk together and it's absolute crap. Also I still can't hire new employees. There's almost 1500 people waiting to join the Spokane branch but trying to hire anymore than two at a time breaks the site for me. I contacted tech support last week and never heard back. A couple people have suggested that the website being shitty is on purpose. I don't know if I'm ready to believe it's all some ironic joke. What I do know is that interacting with their game is frustrating and I'm not sure I want to bother with it anymore.