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It hardly got the attention that Tuesday’s Gmail outage or ViddyHo/Google Talk phishing incident saw, but Google’s advertising system, AdSense, had a hiccup of its own Wednesday. The service was down for about 90 minutes, a spokeswoman confirmed, and did not affect many Web publishers.

AdSense is the online-ad server of choice for thousands of Web sites, and while it’s not unheard of for it to experience down time, it comes in a week that’s already seen the catchphrase “Gfail” bandied about.

As the Journal’s Ben Worthen and Jessica Vascellaro reported today, the Gmail outage triggered concerns about the reliability of Web-based services like the ones Google specializes in.

The company yesterday launched an Apps Status Dashboard that shows how Gmail, Calendar, Google Talk and several other services are performing. “We heard your feedback around the need for better communication,” a member of the sales team wrote in a blog post.

Information source : gigaom.com

Users of social networks choose where to spend their time based on factors entirely outside of those such as uptime and reliability, according to report issued Tuesday (PDF link) by Pingdom, a service that tracks web site uptime and optimization for companies. Not that such things aren

At the annual Zend/PHP Conference & Expo this past month, Zend and Adobe Systems announced a collaboration to bring together the flexibility, productivity and enterprise reliability of Zend’s PHP technologies with the user experience benefits of Adobe Flex. The two companies will deliver technologies, content and services to make it easy for enterprise developers to build rich Internet applications (RIAs) using Flex on the client and PHP on the server. These RIAs are easier to use, speed real-time decision-making, and increase employee productivity.

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