the new web as unreliable as the old web

myspace went down and offered pac-man as a standby

in fact, the uk reg rounds-up web 2.0 unreliability

But cute messages and chronic unreliability are a feature of the current wave of 'Web 2.0' websites and services. TypePad suffered another serious outage 10 days ago; Flickr is notorious for its unreliability, and a Flickr-clone called Zooomr "launched" recently, only to disappear again for several days.

i guess half a billion bucks doesn't go as far as it used to...