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Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme () americafree tv>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 19:23:20 -0400
On Jul 3, 2009, at 5:11 PM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
That's a great idea, use some lame Web 2.0 trend to communicate with actual real life customers. </sarcasm>
I would assume they figured it was better than just remaining silent. Regards Marshall
JeffOn Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Marshall Eubanks<tme () americafree tv> wrote:On Jul 3, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Ben Carleton wrote:Yes it was. On Jul 3, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote:Wasn't Authorize.net affected by this? We received a support ticket about why Authorize.net is down today (I don't know either, I don't ask too many questions).Authorize.net was for a while completely off the air, and companies thatrelied upon themwere not getting credit card authorizations (and, thus, no ecommerce). Ithink it is still only partially functional.Authorize.net has been communicating with customers mostly (entirely ?) withtwitter - they are @AuthorizeNet with a hash tab of #authorizenet If you go there, you will see a lot of status messages like#authorizenet (cont.) Do not manually submit ARB transactions b/c you runthe risk of your merchants being double billed. 10 minutes ago from web (i.e., 4:47 EDT). You will also see a lot of posts from annoyed people if you search on #authorizenet It's an interesting use of Web 2.0 for emergency communications. Regards MarshallJeffOn Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Tomas L. Byrnes<tomb () byrneit net> wrote:Earth is a single point of failure, where is your backup site?[TLB:] Given that all my customers are on Earth, I don't need one if mycustomers also are "down".-- Jeffrey Lyon, Leadership Team jeffrey.lyon () blacklotus net | http://www.blacklotus.net Black Lotus Communications of The IRC Company, Inc.Look for us at HostingCon 2009 in Washington, DC on August 10th - 12that Booth #401.-- Jeffrey Lyon, Leadership Team jeffrey.lyon () blacklotus net | http://www.blacklotus.net Black Lotus Communications of The IRC Company, Inc. Look for us at HostingCon 2009 in Washington, DC on August 10th - 12th at Booth #401.
Regards Marshall Eubanks CEO / AmericaFree.TV
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- RE: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle, (continued)
- RE: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Tomas L. Byrnes (Jul 03)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Seth Mattinen (Jul 03)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle William Herrin (Jul 03)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Sean Donelan (Jul 03)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Stephen Stuart (Jul 03)
- RE: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Tomas L. Byrnes (Jul 03)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Jeffrey Lyon (Jul 03)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Ben Carleton (Jul 03)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Marshall Eubanks (Jul 03)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Jeffrey Lyon (Jul 03)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Marshall Eubanks (Jul 03)
- Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) Roland Perry (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) Marshall Eubanks (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) Roland Perry (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) Jeffrey Lyon (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) Michael Hallgren (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) Michael Hallgren (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) Roland Perry (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Chris Hills (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Roland Perry (Jul 04)
- RE: Using twitter as an outage notification Frank Bulk (Jul 04)
- RE: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Tomas L. Byrnes (Jul 03)