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Main on October 9th, 2006 by Pingdom
Last week we posted some pics from the Swedish Pingdom office. This week the turn has come to our first-class software team in Nis, Serbia. These talented engineers both develop and maintain Pingdom for us. Above: Who said you can’t have fun and work hard at the same time? Above: Sometimes even the experts need [...]
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Main on October 9th, 2006 by Pingdom
Last Friday, Pingdom had a visit from the county administrative board. They were here to interview Sam Nurmi, our founder and CEO. His profile will be included in a book together with fourteen other highly successful entrepreneurs in our county. Before Ipwalk and Pingdom, Sam founded the Swedish web hosting company Loopia, which he managed [...]
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Main on October 5th, 2006 by Pingdom
Yesterday we mentioned our neighbor Calle who volunteered to be our male model for the day. We dragged him to a nearby photo studio to be the face of our latest campaign. His task was to portray an ordinary Internet user and react to common website problems. Our end user could be practically anyone on [...]
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Main on October 4th, 2006 by Pingdom
We are preparing a Pingdom ad campaign and managed to persuade Calle from Loopia (a Swedish web hosting company that just happens to be our neighbor) to act as our model. In addition to working for Loopia, Calle (Calvin without the Hobbes) runs stdOut. Image: Calle gave prima donnas all over the world a new [...]
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Main on October 4th, 2006 by Pingdom
CSS Mania, a site displaying screenshots of attractive CSS-designed websites, has added the Pingdom.com website to their galleries. While we aren’t trying to win any beauty contests, any kind of praise is always welcome.
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Main on October 3rd, 2006 by Pingdom
Our marketing people usually have their lunch together with a bunch of very verbal IT guys. Since one of the most common complaints have been how cold it can be in the server rooms, a solution has been presented, courtesy of the marketing department: Special server room jackets. The final design of these jackets will [...]
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Main on October 2nd, 2006 by Pingdom
From our posts lately, it may be easy to think that it’s all fun and games here at Pingdom. Yes, we have fun, and yes, we enjoy our work, but we also work hard. So before you go thinking that we’re resting on our laurels, surfing the Web and watching videos on You Tube all [...]
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