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Archive for October, 2006

Pingdom Cribs, Serbia

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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The entrepreneurial spirit

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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Through the eyes of the end user

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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Male model enters the 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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Pingdom.com becomes CSS showcase

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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We have a cool data center

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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Pingdom progress

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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