Apr
8
Something like 25% of our users try to scan groceries and until recently we weren’t able to indentify most items, much less provide comparison prices. Two months ago we inked a deal that gave us access to almost all groceries, but only provided prices in ten states. We are still working on getting 50 state coverage from multiple local grocery stores (stay tuned for more details). In the meantime:
Apr
1
First, we are back up! For the past two days we have been experiencing some very annoying up and downtime time with the hosting provider we used for ShopSavvy. I detailed the story here. We have officially moved off of the GoGrid cloud and are now on our own cloud in our own data center. We have also set up a redundant site on Amazon’s cloud in the event our site were to lose connectivity or suffer some other outage. Check our new servers here:
Mar
31
Google is removing applications from the Android Market that violate T-Mobile’s terms and conditions. I understand why Google removed the applications and I also understand why T-Mobile asked them to do so – my question is ‘how is this going to work when we have lots of carriers on Android?’
Next year when there are five or six carriers offering Android phones how will Google deal with the various carrier’s differing policies. Some carriers allow teathering while others offer special ‘teathering’ plans. Will Google remove applications that violate some carriers terms and conditions and not others? Or will Google allow applications in the market that are allowed by at least one carrier’s terms and conditions?
Of course the problem isn’t just for the future. You can buy unlocked G1s today and use them on any network. I can put a SIM from a carrier that allows me to teather into my G1, but now I can’t get Seth’s Wifi Tether. Is this fair and open? Is there going to be a way for carriers to remove apps from the market directly – i.e. removing them from the Android Market ONLY on handsets on their network?
Lots of questions. . .
Mar
31
Our backend servers went down yesterday, came up for a time and are now back down this morning. Our virtual cloud provider, GoGrid, has had a number of issues over the past couple of days. We are not hopeful that the situation will rectify itself in the near term so we have decided to move ShopSavvy’s backend system to our own data center. I wrote about OUR mistake here.
Mar
30
After intermittent downtime this afternoon, ShopSavvy is back up. We will be migrating ShopSavvy’s server side to Architel’s data center with Amazon as our back up site in the event of another failure. Our hosting partner had a major DDOS attack that affected their entire network. Sorry for the interuption – tomorrow we will begin the migration.
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