The sun is barely above the Valley floor here in Phoenix this morning and I have already had a vision of the future and two indicators that the tech and communications world continues to rapidly evolve. Usually it takes at least one Mountain Dew for that to happen (no I am not a coffee drinker).
Rather than email, the first thing that I did this morning was check Twitter - signal #1. The first Tweet I saw was from Barry Schwartz at Searchengineland commenting on Gmail servers going down yet again (Search-Werks mail server goes through Gmail so we experience the downtimes noticeably). Barry's posted a link to a live Twitter Search showing of all of the people Tweeting about Gmail going down - signal #2. The red flags should be waving at Google this morning as this behavior occurs. It seems ironic that folks turn to Twitter to communicate in real time about email unreliability at Google. This exposes to me cracks in the Google time space continuum where instant communication and search behavior are both happening WITHOUT them. Google's goal is to be involved in everything digital and this morning, plenty was happening online regarding Google and the Gmail brand. Unfortunately, it was without them.
Google take notice.
