Another busy week for Google included a Blogger meltdown, Google Voice tweak, revving up for Social Search, net neutrality lobbying and a dive into the music selling business. Here's a recap of the news.
People and organizations who host their Blogger blogs outside of Google have experienced technical problems with the service's FTP publishing functionality, prompting Google to apologize.
Google's Blogger has been hit by a bug affecting several of the blog-publishing service's features, including editing, autosave, posting and time stamping.
In an attempt to rid its Blogger service from spam blogs, or splogs, Google mistakenly flagged a number of legitimate sites last week, prompting the company to scramble to unlock them.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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