Since early Jan. if you typed NYC’s East Village zip code of 10009 into Google Maps, it said you were halfway up the Hudson – in no man’s land.

There’s a brief moment in The Social Network, where fake-Michael Cera confronts Facebook’s start-up CFO on the phone. His valid complaint is that a glitch like servers going down, even for a few minutes, can have wide sweeping ramifications for a portal that’s meant to keep everyone dependent on it.

Basically, the servers were down for part of a day… Google Maps hasn’t had a clue where the East Village is for two months!

Which means that if you want to look up movie times for Angelika, Film Forum or IFC using Google Movies, you  get info on what’s screening at Magic Johnson Theaters.

Which really blossoms out of control when you consider the number of apps and sites that use Google Maps at the core of their architecture. Wanna find a restaurant in one of the most Read the rest of this entry »