Well, after a lengthy downtime, the ace “pit crew” has parts of the site running. The parts that they didn’t program that is.
The marketing (i.e. non-functional brochure style pages) pages hosted on blastoffnetwork.com are up. Those are running WordPress, the same free open source software that runs this blog. The user feedback stuff is running, which is built and hosted by GetSatisfaction.
However, the parts that they did presumably build…the core functionality of Blast Off hosted at my.blastoffnetwork.com, is still down. Trying to join the site results in a “Sorry, but we are currently closed to new registrations” error. I’m sure this will be spun in a manner that makes their site seem exclusive, but in fact it is just getting more and more embarrassing that they can’t develop software.
It seems they like to compare their problems to big Internet companies with professional developers. An excerpt from their blog post,
“You may encounter a few kinks at times but rest assured we are working on it. Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have never released a new product without bugs or issues of some kind.”
Based on a quick review of their technology mishmash, they have no business making such comparisons. Google they are not.
lol what a piece of crap. Even if it does work properly it is just a useless clone of igoogle but without any of the good features. Instead of RSS updates I get an embedded hulu player- yeah, that is much more important….