Tag: FAILWHALE

We're not sure if this is the actual error page for Google's new ebookstore, but we sure hope so. A not-so-subtle tribute to Twitter's Fail Whale, the watercolor graphic features a frustrated Ahab chasing that elusive white whale, better known as Moby Dick. This could be part of the older Google Books, or a non-functioning joke error page. Regardless, we really dig it. ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. BoingBoing shows off the best thing to come out of weeks of iPhone 4 shenanigans: photo and video of Apple's surreal, echo-free antenna testing center. [From: ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Just yesterday, the Twitter Blog trumpeted the site's new Places location-tagging feature, but the service almost immediately forced the increasingly frequent Fail Whale to surface. The "failed enhancement" reportedly blocked users' access to feeds, and some individual tweets appeared numerous times. According to a Twitter Status blog ...

For those not familiar with Twitter, it's a micro-blogging service which allows you to post what are essentially status updates and exchange messages with other users... as long as those updates and messages aren't longer than 140 characters. Over the last year, the popularity of the service has exploded, and it has gone from the realm of early adopters to mainstream users (as evident by all of ...