Five million Filipinos can’t find their friends this morning, because Friendster is down. Jim Ayson’s contact at the social networking service says the downtime is due to a power outage at Friendster’s US data center.

To be fair, Friendster is trying to engage the local blogosphere in a key geographic market. Most of their users are in the Philippines, where I also happen to be based. They invited me to a roundtable with their marketing guy the other day, but I was too busy to come. Nevertheless, all the marketing in the world cannot make up for service outages.

By Mike Abundo

A friend of mine just called me to tell me that QTS’s Sunnyvale had a major power event today. Details are slim, but apparently it was an entire site outage. He told me that he’s about 50th in line to get access to the facility right now. Due to this outage, Friendster is offline right now.

By Mhalligan

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