May 11, 2008 in Twingly
A gradual loss of function during Saturday evening turned into a complete failure of service on our Ping server at 5 am this morning. Indexing came to a grinding halt, immediately starting to build a huge backlog of pings. Our engineers worked through the problem and reconfigured the malfunctioning MySQL to not use as much memory on the server.
All in all, the backlog was not processed until some time after lunch. If you are missing any post in our index, please re-ping and get back to us if it still doesnt appear.
Big sorry to all bloggers who were the victims of the failure. We screwed up. Big thanks to Bjorn, Oskar and Niclas who made the fixer-upper thingies, shunning the warmth of the Swedish Sunday sun to solve tedious database troubles. You rock!
May 9, 2008 in Blogosphere, Media, Twingly Partners
The Swedish magazine Sköna hem is our latest Twingly Partner and the first in the nisch “design, decoration and home”. Design, decoration and home is a quite big part of in the Swedish blogosphere and hopefully Sköna hem could give the blogs in that segment a wider audience with Twingly.
Skonahem.com - “Sköna hem länkar till inredningsbloggar” (swedish)
May 7, 2008 in Twingly, Twingly Partners
We have improved the Twinglywidget with a new filter that give more blogs attention from our partners. The filter is made so every blog can get only one link from each article. The latest relevant blog post from each blog is shown.
This brings attention to a larger number of blogs, but also deals with a previous error in the widget where the same blog post could happen to be shown duplicate times if it had been published under more than one URL. It also hinders some forms of abuse.
We would like to hear your opinion, leave a comment or trackback!
May 2, 2008 in Blogosphere, Twingly, Twingly Partners
Amazon reports that they served 1.8TB of data to Twingly widget viewers during April, up from 1.0TB in March. The heavy increase is due to several new newspapers around Europe starting to use Twingly to link back to blogs.
The data volume corresponds to about 180M views of the Twingly widget. The volume is bound to increase further as we add more newspapers to our partner list.
Our monthly Amazon S3 bill is now up to $1,447.45.
