Grilling App Crashes After Zuckerberg Praises It

Want to boost traffic to your site? Try getting an endorsement from Mark Zuckerberg. His Facebook post on the iGrill app caused so much traffic that it shut down iGrill's servers for two hours. The app is a wireless cooking thermometer for Apple touchscreen devices, and Zuck's post discussed how it works with his own site, tech2 reports.

"It now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome," he wrote. "I’m making a Fred’s steak," he added, with a photo. Says the iDevices CEO: "We had quietly released this update for our users earlier this month and were waiting for it to gain traction, but this obviously gives us a huge head start." The app is a pricey one: Figure about $80.