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YouTube went down today for about 30 minutes, a rare occurrence for Google’s flagship streaming video service. Between about 5:20PM and 5:50PM Eastern Time, the site could not be reached. This included embedded videos in websites (this one, for example.) Anyone attempting to visit the YouTube website saw a 500 internal server error message. This […]

Sometimes, bookmarking a website just isn’t enough. A permanent copy is different from a physical copy, so printing the page just isn’t the same as actually saving it. Of course, you could also choose to save the entire page with all the elements on your computer, but if you plan to do that with a lot of pages, then that could turn into a confusing mess of files and folders pretty quickly.

So why don’t you Mummify it instead?

Mummify is a service that lets you save and store complete copies of web pages on their online servers. There won’t be any extra folders to monitor, no files to trace, and no printouts to monitor. Plus, they’re offering the service for free – at least, for the first 10 pages that you choose to Mummify. It’ll cost you $10 to $15 a month for up to 50 mummified pages per month.

All you have to do is enter the URL of the site you want to save to Mummify’s system. It will then give you a shortlink directing to the page or a cache of it, in case the page moves, changes, or no longer exists. Keep in mind that dynamically-generated content which is pushed to the page view JavaScript probably won’t be properly cached by the service.

You can check out and try Mummify here.

[via Red Ferret]

When I first heard of Facebook, Friendster was still all the rage. I didn’t care much for it and only went online on Facebook because somebody gave me these virtual pets that you were supposed to take care of. I eventually deleted my account and moved on… until I went back and signed up again to become the site’s 47,728,103th user.

So when did you get on the Facebook trend relative to other users and relative to your friends? You can find out by checking out The Faces of Facebook. The site features an interactive gallery of all the profile pictures of Facebook’s 1 billion plus users on its front page. You can click any tiny square to zoom in and see whose profile occupies a certain position.

You can also authorize the site’s corresponding Facebook app to access your account and determine if you are among the first or the last in the social network’s massive pool of worldwide users.

[via Geekologie]

Shortened URLs were incredibly convenient… until they weren’t. It was great to have the option to post shortened links so they’d fit well within Twitter’s 140-character limit and didn’t look too messy when you shared them on other sites. They’re also useful for tracking clicks. The problem is, scammers and spammers also see the value in shortening their phishing and spammy links.

Hundreds of thousands of people are probably duped into clicking these shortened URLs on a daily basis, resulting in accounts getting hacked or compromised.

Good thing there’s something like the LongURL now to help sort things out. In case you’re unsure of a shortened link that someone you know has posted or has sent you, then you can run it through LongURL first to expand it and see if it’s legit or not. It’s compatible with many URL-shortening sites, like bit.ly and TinyURL, and works exactly as you’d expect. All you have to do is paste the shortened link into the form and hit ‘expand.’ It’s as easy as that.

[via Red Ferret]