Back online
July 31, 2007
We regret the recent downtime we had with CoReap.
Apparently, our server came under fire from a reasonably large DDOS attack. Although we had setup a decent blanket of firewall protection, rootkit protection and even DDOS detection, but within a few hours of the attack the server started crawling down. We had to reboot it a few times in between. Once that got resolved, our host had trouble with the NOC over a different issue, and we had to face the brunt once again.
Well, one thing is for sure, we aim at operating a professional, reliable and long-term service for our users. And in that course, we will only partner with organizations who share our vision and provide a professional service. Looking at what happended in the past 2-3 days, we are really disappointed with our current host, and we plan to migrate our application to a different host very soon. This server migration process won’t bear any downtime, and we hope to keep it smooth & transparent for our end-users.
We again apologise to all our users for this unforeseen downtime, and promise to keep things stable.
Social bookmarks in Google search
July 18, 2007
Relevant and peer-recommended social bookmarks in your favorite web search engine! Need I say more? Give CoReap a drive today!
CoReap Update 1.0 RC 2
July 6, 2007
We’ve fixed a number of minor bugs and cosmetic features in the updated release (1.0 RC 2).
Did you know? CoReap is not only an online (social) bookmarking tool, but the CoReap extension also integrates with web search engines like Google and Yahoo, to provide relevant & recommended results (from your CoReap social search network) for your web search queries on the same (Google or Yahoo search) results page! So you get to see: matching web search results, your relevant bookmarks, and relevant bookmarks of your friends, all on the same search results page.
We are also considering a meta-search feature which will enable you to preview relevant results from other popular social bookmarking sites.
“Social Search, Made Easy”
CoReap extension for IE, out now
July 5, 2007
I’m glad that we could roll out a CoReap addon for Internet Explorer sooner that later, specially with the recent public release. The CoReap extension for Firefox was already available, but statistics say that IE users still dominate the online space. So it made sense to package one for IE as well, and keep all our users happy!
The only cavet with the IE extension is that it does not yet support social search integration – CoReap’s most powerful feature. However, it includes all other bookmarking features of CoReap. For best utilization of the CoReap service we highly recommend the use of the Firefox extension instead, which has full support for social search integration.
The CoReap extension/addon for IE is a Windows executable which will install the required IE toolbar buttons and sidebar panel. The CoReap extension is completely safe to install, and it brings all the features of CoReap right into your web browser. The IE addon will only work on IE 6 and IE 7. If you face any problems, you can send us a quick message.
