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If you have been paying attention, you may have noticed that YackTrack restarted early this morning. I was waiting to ensure that things continued to be stable for the majority of the day before stating that YackTrack was back to normal. Given the uneventful day, I think we can say that things are s

Due to some system instability over the past week, YackTrack will be down until further notice. Hopefully, service will be restored over the next few days.

For quite some time I have been thinking about creating a premium API, but the time required as well as getting all of the pieces together just never happened. With the acquisition of BackType, and the subsequent closure of their API, the opportunity for a premium API presented itself once again. So

Yes, it has been a while since there has been an update here on the YackTrack blog. I try not to post updates if there are no visual updates or significant new features, but I have been updating the infrastructure continuously. However, today I wanted to announce some new stuff. First, there is a mi

YackTrack is currently down!  I know this is a major bummer. YackTrack has been down before but this time it is different. It is not my fault, at least I do not think so. The hosting company has been having issues with a whole segment of customers, since about 2:30 AM Eastern time. They are [...]

This is just a quick note to anyone listening. YackTrack is undergoing maintenance. This maintenance is a little different as we are moving to bigger servers, finally. The issue is that you may experience some downtime while the DNS changes propagate. As always, if you see anything strange or find a

This past weekend, YackTrack was undergoing some fairly routine database maintenance. This maintenance was not officially announced as it was not supposed to truly affect any site performance. There was a note posted on Twitter in case there was a slight slowdown, but none was really expected. That

Things have been quiet on this blog for several months. The reason for that is due to some of the earliest programming decisions that were made. So, the past few months were spent preparing for the future. Many of the decisions that were made in the beginning were based on the idea that YackTrack wa

Maybe you have read the previous post on this blog, or you realize that monitoring social media is becoming very important. If you read that last post, you will see there are some free and simple “do-it-yourself” tools that you can use to get started monitoring social media. The problem is that moni

You have heard all of the hype regarding social media, but you have no idea why your company should use it. There are plenty of blogs that you can read about the conversation and marketing aspects of social media, so I will not go into those topics here. You have also probably heard people in [...]