Filed under: Internet, Web services

Have you ever tried to visit a web page only to get the dreaded 404 error or another message, although the site was working just fine an hour ago? You might be trying to determine if your favorite software and technology blog has crashed due to billions of page refreshes as we liveblog the launch of OS X 10.9.7.1.5.2.4.7.1.3. Or maybe you’re just trying to see if your own hosting company has dropped the ball. Either way, there’s a service that can help.

Down for everyone or just me does one thing, and it does it well. Type a URL into the site, and you’ll find out if the whole world is seeing what you’re seeing. Simple as pie. You know, eating it, not making it. There’s no info on the site explaining exactly how it checks to see if a site is up, but the results appear to be at least as accurate as emailing your friend and asking for a second thought.

Now, we’re big fans in giving products and services a descriptive name. And Down for everyone or just me certainly does that. But if you’ve any use for this service at all, we suggest you bookmark the site, because seriously, who’s going to remember a URL like downforeveryoneorjustme.com?

[via TechnoSpot]

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I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “The Swedish Culture & Justice ministers are preparing to give new power to Swedish courts to let them force ISPs to give up subscriber IPs. The end goal is trying subscribers in court for copyright infringement. As the one-time home of the Pirate Bay, which is now internationally distributed, they face both US pressure and push-back at home. The Swedish arm of the Pirate Party is calling this move a ’sanctioned blackmailing operation’, but hopefully the Swedish courts won’t allow the IFPI to use as many tricks as the RIAA has in US courts.”

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An anonymous reader writes “The folks on wikileaks have published a new interesting and shocking report: FBI Electronic Surveillance Needs for Carrier-Grade Voice over Packet (CGVoP) Service. The 88 paged document, which is part of the CALEA Implementation Plan was published in January 2003 and describes in detail all needs for surveillance of phone calls made via data services like the internet. Wikileaks has not published any analysis yet, so maybe some of the techies hanging around this end of the internet are interested in taking that one on.”

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NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “Recommended reading for all interested in the RIAA’s litigation war against p2p file sharing is the amended class action complaint just filed in Oregon in Andersen v. Atlantic. This landmark 109-page document (pdf) tells both the general story of the RIAA’s campaign against ordinary folks, and the specific story of its harassment of Tanya Andersen, and even of her young daughter. The complaint includes federal and say RICO claims, as well as other legal theories, and alleges that “The world’s four major recording studios had devised an illegal enterprise intent on maintaining their virtually complete monopoly over the distribution of recorded music.” The point has been made by one commentator that the RIAA won’t be able to weasel its out of this one by simply withdrawing it; this one, they’ll have to answer for. If the relief requested in the complaint is allowed, the RIAA’s entire campaign will be shut down for good.”

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theodp writes “What could be more annoying than having ads precede online videos? How about having commercials interrupt the videos? That’s the premise behind a newly-published Google patent application for Using Viewing Signals in Targeted Video Advertising.”

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Filed under: Industry, Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG), Yahoo! (YHOO), Walt Disney (DIS), Viacom (VIA)

Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) YouTube continues to gain visitors. It competitors have to be dismayed. Why bother posting video content at all when YouTube owns the market.

According to comScore, YouTube had a 34.3% share of all videos watched in the U.S. during January, an improvement of 1.7 share points over the previous month.

The competition barely registered. AOL, Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), Viacom (NYSE: VIA), and Disney (NYSE: DIS) had humiliating share figures, none posting a figure superior than 3.2%.

Visitors to Google video sites spent an average of nearly 110 minutes per viewer. No other huge world wide web site was above 33 minutes.

Douglas A. McIntyre is an editor at 247wallst.com.

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SkiifGeek writes “Zone-H have recently posted the statistical breakdown of the collected website defacements from the last few years. Surprisingly, in 2007 more Linux servers suffered a successful attack than all versions of Windows, combined. Similarly, more Apache installations were successfully attacked than all IIS versions combined. A day after posting this data, Zone-H have questioned the appropriateness of continuing to operate the archive. Despite the valuable information that can be gleaned from the service, it may soon be lost to the world. The natural successor to the now-defunct Alldas archive of defaced websites, Zone-H’s archive maintains records of over 2.6 million defaced sites but might be shut down due to the continuous accusations of impropriety leveled against them any time they disclose and mirror a reported defacement.”

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Slimjim100 writes “Last year at ChicagoCon 2007, Brian Wilson gave a great speak entitled “Cain & Abel: Windows Can Hack, Too!” Even though the presentation and audio recording of the talk can be downloaded from the ChicagoCon site at Library, I had totally forgotten to publish his videos. Just in case things didn’t go as planned during the live event or his laptop crapped out on him, Brian made a video of the MITM attack he demonstrated using Cain. You get to see how Myspace and other social networking sites are not designed with security in mind.”

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Balistyx writes to mention that Comcast has announced the first test of 100-gigabit-per-second optical networking equipment designed to carry data over a production fiber network. The trial equipment will connect Philadelphia and McLean, VA. “In November, Verizon said it completed the first field test of 100-Gbps optical transmission on a live 312-mile network route between Tampa, Fla., and Miami. The telco’s test used a live video feed from the FiOS TV network, and optical equipment from Alcatel-Lucent. Comcast’s test is different, according to Schanz, for several reasons: It’s running live traffic, and the 100-Gbps wavelengths in the Comcast trial are running over the same physical fiber as its existing 40-Gbps wavelengths, which are handled by Cisco Systems gear.”

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Anonymous writes “A circuit court judge has denied the Church of Scientology’s second request for an injunction against protests by the web group “Anonymous.” The Church sought to prevent Anonymous from protesting on the birthday of the Church’s leader, the late Ron L. Hubbard. The petition filed by the Church listed twenty-six individuals allegedly affiliated with Anonymous, but “accidentally” included others who merely work near the location of the first protests held in February and didn’t participate in them, such as a Starbucks employee. Furthermore, the Church failed to show that any of those listed actually committed any wrongdoing.”

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