I find things like this interesting. I had bandwidth problems most of today, meaning Shaw was sucking big time, but YouTube is something I pass by once and a while. For others, I bet there were some people going through withdrawl.
YouTube, the popular video hosting site, was hit with an outage four almost five hours Tuesday as a result of database troubles.
The site, which allows viewers to tune into uploaded videos ranging from seniors making their homespun video debut to polished user-submitted film clips, went down at 7:30 a.m. (PST) leaving viewers with a tongue-in-cheek graphic of the company’s database woes. Although the notice stated that new features were being added to the site, it turns out that wasn’t the case.
“There are no new features being added today. This page went up mistakenly,” said company spokeswoman Julie Supan. [cnet]
This takes me back to an episode of the DSC a short time ago where the Curry’s were talking about how their daughter popped out of her bedroom one night while MySpace disappeared for some hours. She was forced away from an online world and into the kitchen with her mom. According to the podcast, the daughter was helpful and sweet. At the same time, she had nothing better to do.
When we saw Douglas Coupland at CBC’s Studio One Book Club a few months ago[post], even he stated how he could and would spend all day on YouTube, probably absorbing ideas for his writing projects. I bet there were some offices that experienced an increase in productivity today as well. Oh yeah, that’s what Google Video is for.