Comments on: Gmail Goes Down and the World Grinds to a Halt http://gigaom.com/collaboration/gmail-goes-down-and-the-world-grinds-to-a-halt/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:46:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: WWD’s 2009 in Review, Part 1 http://gigaom.com/collaboration/gmail-goes-down-and-the-world-grinds-to-a-halt/#comment-80054 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:01:51 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=8041#comment-80054 [...] continued to release new Gmail features (including Tasks, a simple to-do lists manager) a major Gmail outage prompted me to question how much faith we put into our web apps. While back on the desktop, a [...]

]]> By: What I Think About the Bing Outage – GigaOM http://gigaom.com/collaboration/gmail-goes-down-and-the-world-grinds-to-a-halt/#comment-80053 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:11:35 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=8041#comment-80053 [...] failure was. I remember the day Gmail went down, both in September and back in February — it seemed to be the only thing people were talking about, indicating how critical it had become to our daily digital lives. Last night, the [...]

]]> By: Harmony http://gigaom.com/collaboration/gmail-goes-down-and-the-world-grinds-to-a-halt/#comment-80052 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:15:29 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=8041#comment-80052 It was about 8pm for me when Gmail went down, it was a bit annoying but I figured “meh, it will be there tomorrow” and I went and played Fable 2 for a few hours :)

Had it happened during the work day I would have just worked on something non-email related for a few hours (as I do anyway since I try not to check emails more than twice a day). If I couldn’t do that, waiting on approvals etc, I would have spent my time reading some of the mountain of research material I have printed out.

]]> By: WebWorkerDaily » Archive Open Thread: How Much Do You Trust Your Web Apps? « http://gigaom.com/collaboration/gmail-goes-down-and-the-world-grinds-to-a-halt/#comment-80051 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:02:18 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=8041#comment-80051 [...] 24th, 2009 (4:01pm) Simon Mackie No Comments The news that Gmail went down this morning (UK time) got me thinking about how we increasingly rely on third parties for essential business [...]

]]> By: Todd Jamieson http://gigaom.com/collaboration/gmail-goes-down-and-the-world-grinds-to-a-halt/#comment-80050 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:45:56 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=8041#comment-80050 Like James I set-up the offline mode. We use google apps at our office and we quickly found out who didn’t install it. I’ve had to rely on it a few times now – I think it was a much needed upgrade for gmail.

]]> By: Yassine http://gigaom.com/collaboration/gmail-goes-down-and-the-world-grinds-to-a-halt/#comment-80049 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:16:10 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=8041#comment-80049 It would have been more frustrating without IMAP/POP and google gears (for google docs). Luckily, I always keep a copy of my emails in Yahoo! When the epidemic spreads I’m sure one of them will survive.

]]> By: Simon Mackie http://gigaom.com/collaboration/gmail-goes-down-and-the-world-grinds-to-a-halt/#comment-80048 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:56:24 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=8041#comment-80048 @James I had Offline Mode on too so was able to continue working on those emails that had arrived overnight. I take it that if I hadn’t already had offline mode enabled that I wouldn’t have been able to enable it after the site broke, though.

Also, I read conflicting reports on Twitter about IMAP working. A few people couldn’t get in on their phones, for example.

]]> By: James http://gigaom.com/collaboration/gmail-goes-down-and-the-world-grinds-to-a-halt/#comment-80047 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:40:49 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=8041#comment-80047 It’s frustrating, but not the end of the world. I used the recently enabled ‘offline’ GMail mode to answer all those emails I’d been putting off replying to.

And the IMAP/POP functions continued to work, so anyone using a desktop or mobile client (like myself) to access their GMail could continue to send/receive email without any problem.

]]> By: Jason Harris http://gigaom.com/collaboration/gmail-goes-down-and-the-world-grinds-to-a-halt/#comment-80046 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:08:43 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=8041#comment-80046 Honestly, I think people’s outrageous reaction to a cloud-based, free service going down is laughable.

If Gmail was down for days, I can see the relevancy of the freakout, but a matter of hours is nothing, in my opinion.

]]> By: David http://gigaom.com/collaboration/gmail-goes-down-and-the-world-grinds-to-a-halt/#comment-80045 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:44:06 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=8041#comment-80045 When my internet goes down I fuss and complain and gripe, and just about the time I decide to do something fun instead, it comes back up. Takes the wind out of my sails!

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