San Francisco's tech sites down, amid power outage
If you’re wondering why a bunch of popular Internet sites are down, its because of a power outage at PG&E at the center of the SOMA district in San Francisco where many of the new companies are located.
Craigstlist, Technorati, Yelp, Six Apart’s TypePad, LiveJournal and Vox are among those affected. Between 30,000 and 50,000 PG &E customers in San Francisco and the northern Peninsula lost power for several hours this afternoon after a reported explosion near Mission street. Craigslist is still down for us.
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Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.
