Month: June 2019

Dedicated. Data-driven. Digital Marketing.

Google Calendar Is Down

Google Calendar currently appears to be down, serving a ‘500. That’s an error’ or ‘Error 404’ pages to users. It appears the issue is widespread with the UK, US, Europe, Asia confirmed affected. This is likely to be a global issue. There appears to be no comment from Google yet and no update on their…
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Soon We Will All Be Served By Bots... And It's Our Own Fault

Soon We Will All Be Served By Bots… And It’s Our Own Fault

Put simply. Our demands are too high. From working with businesses across a wide range of sectors over the years I’ve seen consumer demands and expectations soar to extreme levels. We expect professional services to be complete in days, deliveries in hours, email responses in minutes and live chat messages in seconds. But can we…
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Major Google Cloud Outage: Takes Down Snapchat, YouTube, Uber & More

As of 22:57 BST Google’s Cloud Compute service has been having issues for over 2 hours 30 minutes. This is a significant outage since large online services such as Snapchat, Uber, Vimeo, Shopify, Google Drive, Gmail, Discord and CrunchyRoll operate on Google’s Cloud Compute services rather than their own. So forth, these companies and their…
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