AS HEARD ON - The Jim Polito Show - WTAG 580 AM: Charlie Baker's No Good Very Bad Day or Why Should Bureaucrats Not Design Websites

<p>Welcome!</p> <p>Good morning, everybody. I was on WTAG this morning with Jim Polito.  He wanted me on to discuss the problems that Massachusetts was having with the rollout of their Vaccine Scheduling website. Here we go with Jim.</p> <p>For more tech tips, news, and updates, visit - <a href= "https://craigpeterson.com">CraigPeterson.com</a>.</p> <p><strong>--- </strong></p> <p><strong>Automated Machine Generated Transcript:</strong></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>Craig Peterson:</strong></span> [00:00:00] Dah, dah, dah, dah, dah. He had a special command appearance this morning to answer a major question that's been bothering people in Massachusetts. Their state just yesterday came out with a COVID vaccine registration site and a million people ages 65 and up became eligible that had not been eligible before.</p> <p class="p1">Of course, it did not work. They were getting errors like bad gateway error or this application crashed. It's just incredible. Incredible. Talk a little bit about what should have happened and the ways to really think about putting together something for your business. Should you, should the state be developing these systems from scratch?</p> <p class="p1">I give some alternatives here. You might know. I built one of the first large-scale websites in the world. The whole thing, including the data center for the silly thing, way back when. It was for Big yellow. I don't know if you remember that or not, which was the predecessor to Superpages. We were able to get it up and running in a matter of weeks from scratch, which was a database of every business in the entire region, multiple, multiple States.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> In fact, we ended up covering the entire United States before we even launched.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> We managed to get it finished at<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span> 2:00 AM. 9:00 AM they had a press conference down a New York City, and the site was released to the world and everything worked. It nev