dotcomfreude - oh how we love a disaster

First it was Gmail, then a series of etailers, then twitter, now it appears that Youtube has suffered a major outage - the site is down.

I wonder if we can come up with a new term to signal the phenomena and our collective delight as these ubiquitous sites suffer from outage - perhaps 'dotcomfreude' could sum it up?

Any other suggestions?

Managing Expectations

There are a lot of posts about the twitter fail whale and similar initiatives and strategies for dealing with site down time or outage.

Obviously when you are in beta and your audience is verging on geek / tech savvy you have a bit more license, as Google Wave demonstrates with this piece of classic valley talk patois -I'm tempted to say it Helluva good.