Holiday Tech Stumbles, Crashes, and Fails. For some, the end of 2018 was pretty sobering. Today - a provocative post-mortem into year-end fails. Future Forward looks backward. I’m Steven Rosenbaum - And I’m Gene DeRose… let’s launch

Crashing The Holidays - 2018 HOLIDAY FAILS:

- Instagram

Instagram changes to a Tinder-style format and people melt down. ‘No Instagram no’

https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article223618705.html

- Alexa

Amazon Alexa crashes after Christmas Day overload

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/26/amazon-alexa-echo-crashes-christmas-day-overload

- Century Link:

911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/28/911-service-outage-centurylink/

- Bitcoin

Cryptocurrency’s Terrible 2018

https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/bitcoin-price-cryptocurrency-bubble-burst.html

Remember Bitcoin? Some Investors Might Want to Forget

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/technology/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-crash.html

and - Civil:

How a Plan to Save Journalism Stumbled Out of the Gate

https://thebridgebk.com/how-plan-to-save-journalism-stumbled/

- Philips Hue

Philips Hue suffers holiday outage as servers fail to cope with demand

https://www.gearbrain.com/philips-hue-holiday-outage-2624563934.html

- The US Government.

'Nothing New,' Says Trump as Shutdown Impasse Continues Through the Holidays

http://time.com/5488084/donald-trump-shutdown-holidays/

- Fix blogpost

- Twitch on Roku