Person Finder: Boston Marathon Explosions
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Re: Person Finder: Boston Marathon Explosions
#2The Red Cross already does this. It's called Safe And Well. This is one place where we definitely don't need fragmentation.
If you need to check on someone in Boston, I recommend Safe And Well. Just please don't go to the site unless you actually need to check on someone. The servers don't need the added load (which I guess would be a reason to want to use Google, but they aren't going to be on scene like the Red Cross will be).
Re: Person Finder: Boston Marathon Explosions
#3The Red Cross already does this. It's called Safe And Well. This is one place where we definitely don't need fragmentation. If you need to check on someone in Boston, I recommend Safe And Well. Just please don't go to the site unless you actually need to check on someone. The servers don't need the added load (which I guess would be a reason to want to use Google, but they aren't going to be on scene like the Red Cro…
The Red Cross link:
http://www.redcross.org/find-help/contact-family/register-sa...
> Due to high volume, Safe and Well is experiencing slow page loads at this time. Please continue to check back.
Edit: Also, I hate to bag on anything disaster-relief related, but it's not very useful even when it is working, as it returns results from what looks like the Red Cross's entire database of these records, rather than those scoped to today.
Re: Person Finder: Boston Marathon Explosions
#4The Red Cross already does this. It's called Safe And Well. This is one place where we definitely don't need fragmentation. If you need to check on someone in Boston, I recommend Safe And Well. Just please don't go to the site unless you actually need to check on someone. The servers don't need the added load (which I guess would be a reason to want to use Google, but they aren't going to be on scene like the Red Cro…
Link: http://www.redcross.org/find-help/contact-family/register-sa...
Also the city is doing the same through the Mayor's Hotline: 617-635-4500
Re: Person Finder: Boston Marathon Explosions
#5The Red Cross already does this. It's called Safe And Well. This is one place where we definitely don't need fragmentation. If you need to check on someone in Boston, I recommend Safe And Well. Just please don't go to the site unless you actually need to check on someone. The servers don't need the added load (which I guess would be a reason to want to use Google, but they aren't going to be on scene like the Red Cro…
The Red Cross link: http://www.redcross.org/find-help/contact-family/register-sa... > Due to high volume, Safe and Well is experiencing slow page loads at this time. Please continue to check back. Edit: Also, I hate to bag on anything disaster-relief related, but it's not very useful even when it is working, as it returns results from what looks like the Red Cross's entire database of these records, rather than those…
This might be a place where the Red Cross might be able to improve their services by creating an AppEngine or EC2 instance to handle the traffic?
Re: Person Finder: Boston Marathon Explosions
#6Yet another Google service soon to be discontinued... When one need it as most probably.
Re: Person Finder: Boston Marathon Explosions
#7Yet another Google service soon to be discontinued... When one need it as most probably.
Is this really the time or the place for your comment?
Re: Person Finder: Boston Marathon Explosions
#8"Status: Someone has received information that this person is alive"
- I wish they reword it to something less scary. like, "Status: Someone has received information that this person is fine"
Re: Person Finder: Boston Marathon Explosions
#9The Red Cross already does this. It's called Safe And Well. This is one place where we definitely don't need fragmentation. If you need to check on someone in Boston, I recommend Safe And Well. Just please don't go to the site unless you actually need to check on someone. The servers don't need the added load (which I guess would be a reason to want to use Google, but they aren't going to be on scene like the Red Cro…
It's not necessarily fragmentation, Person Finder is designed to federate information from multiple sources so that information isn't fragmented and sources don't get overwhelmed by the load spike.
I don't know it the Red Cross system supports the relevant data exchange standard, although they seem to have been talking about it in the past with the Person Finder team. A finder that falls over under load isn't very useful.
Re: Person Finder: Boston Marathon Explosions
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Red Cross link: http://www.redcross.org/find-help/contact-family/register-sa... > Due to high volume, Safe and Well is experiencing slow page loads at this time. Please continue to check back. Edit: Also, I hate to bag on anything disaster-relief related, but it's not very useful even when it is working, as it returns results from what looks like the Red Cross's entire database of these records, rather than those…
This might be a place where the Red Cross might be able to improve their services by creating an AppEngine or EC2 instance to handle the traffic?
Or let Google do it. Google can scale much faster than the Red Cross can outsource it.