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Yep, seems to be working consistently for me now. Updated the title.

ericleeclarkon Google Drive for Google Apps for Business is Down

Confirmed Mail and Drive are down: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=13...

http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=13...

ericleeclarkon Google Drive for Google Apps for Business is Down

So far the Apps Status Dashboard only shows an outage for the Admin control panel. http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en

Things seem to be cascading. Unable now to access gmail, calendar and drive.

ericleeclarkon Google Apps stops accepting free sign-ups

Any cheaper than $50 per user per year and you're in the free range. Just to keep this in perspective, $50 a year is a pretty good value when you think about what you're getting in Google Apps.

ericleeclarkon Using Google+ to Track Severe Weather [Experiment]

so far the weather event has been lackluster... mother nature is not cooperating. still the change for scattered severe storms this afternoon...

ericleeclarkon Google Docs Experiencing 404 for "majority" of Users [Fixed 2:46 PM ET]

Good suggestions, thanks.

ericleeclarkon Google Docs Experiencing 404 for "majority" of Users [Fixed 2:46 PM ET]

Right, I understand that. But when you have thousands of docs, most of which you haven't shared (works in progress), no one is going to have the link readily available. So it's essentially a complete outage from the average users standpoint.

Don't get me wrong, huge fan of Google Apps. Just becomes a big issue for clients when they can't access their data, even if it's just minutes -- as you well know.

ericleeclarkon Google Docs Experiencing 404 for "majority" of Users [Fixed 2:46 PM ET]

Update: The problem with Google Docs List should be resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support.

ericleeclarkon Google Docs Experiencing 404 for "majority" of Users [Fixed 2:46 PM ET]

I have a client who uses google apps for biz. They're a law firm. When docs are gone, productivity is gone. Ouch!

ericleeclarkon Google Docs Experiencing 404 for "majority" of Users [Fixed 2:46 PM ET]

Update from Google: We're aware of a problem with Google Docs List affecting a majority of users. The affected users are unable to access Google Docs List, but we've provided a workaround below. We will provide an update by August 26, 2011 3:14:00 PM UTC-4 detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Please note that this resolution time is an estimate and may change. Affected users will see a 404 when accessing the Google Docs home page. You can access individual documents by clicking on the link in the original sharing email, or if you have saved the URL for that document.

ericleeclarkon How many hours/day do you spend on social sites?

I'm looking for actual time spent. We'd all have pretty high numbers if we counted our "connected" hours. I'm usually connected in some way until I go to sleep, but actual time spent on social is probably about 1 hour/day for me.