12-31-2005, 02:11 PM
Quote:Web sites that share blogs, bookmarks and photos exploded in popularity in 2005, but in recent weeks a number of major failures left users stranded and frustrated.
...growth in the last year has been huge. Flickr and del.icio.us were high-profile acquisitions for Internet giant Yahoo, and there are now at least 20 million blogs in existence, according to some estimates, with tens of thousands being added every day.
But the surge in Web-based applications hasn't come without some serious hiccups as several notable services have crashed.
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