My EE and CS friends and I like to take crack shots at MySpace because of the people on there, the shoddy way they code the pages (try running the thing through W3C’s validators!), and the things they post, such as:
- Their so-called “exploits” that are hilariously stupid and self-incriminating
- Songs and lyrics
- Videos from YouTube
- … and other useless Flash widgets
By posting this stuff, they are all vying for attention. However, I am quite sure that any user will blow right through the text and start clicking on the useless Flash widgets, watching the videos, and listening to the songs (that is assuming that the page was not coded so badly, the browser crashes). We could care less about the person!
But I digress. Last Sunday, the power went out at the place that MySpace’s servers are housed at. The UPSs and generators failed to kick in and take over. Just that is enough to add some more ammunition to why MySpace is no good: Their infrastructure is frail! It is Network Engineering 101 that when you are running the number one site that teens visit that you would not only have redundant power backups, but have redundant copies of your site scattered throughout the US synchronized in as close to realtime as humanly possible! Or was this a coverup for something worse: Tom’s landlord suddenly demands this past year’s rent which he let slide when he bought the building and they were roommates. This brings me to the second lesson: Always pay your rent on time.
Snippet from Slashdot
Rules for the MySpace game
On a totally unrelated note, I can’t stop posting using HTML!
