Both the video-sharing site Revver and the personalized start page service Pageflakes have been down since last Thursday, January 29. As of this writing, that is more than three-and-a-half days of straight downtime.

Our monitoring shows that both sites went offline soon after 9 p.m. CET (3 p.m. US EST).

The connection between the two? Both are owned by Live Universe, whose site is also unavailable.

The outage is apparently not supposed to be permanent, but something has definitely gone very wrong. Last Friday Live Universe told CNET that the sites would be back within a few hours.

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Netvibes-competitor Pageflakes was unavailable for close to 7 hours last Friday (January 9).

The longest outage started at 1:49 p.m. EST, when the site went down for 6 hours and 38 minutes. It was completely inaccessible during this time.

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