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Main on November 2nd, 2006 by Pingdom
We were looking through Seth Godin’s Web 2.0 Traffic Watch List and realized we probably had a good share of these sites monitored by GIGRIB. (For those who don’t know, the sites on Seth’s list are the biggest Web 2.0 sites around.) Here are their results for October, including links to the uptime report pages. Numbers on the left are their position in Seth’s list.
Site Uptime, Downtime
1 myspace.com 99.96%, 16m
2 ebay.com 100%, -
3 youtube.com 99.6%, 2h 56m
4 en.wikipedia.org 99.68%, 2h 23m
5 orkut.com 100%, -
6 flickr.com 100%, -
7 xanga.com 99.92%, 34m
8 friendster.com 98.67%, 9h 52m
9 livejournal.com 99.95%, 21m
11 facebook.com 99.97%, 12m
12 photobucket.com 100%, -
14 digg.com 99.99%, 5m
16 skype.com 99.99%, 3m
20 piczo.com 99.93%, 30m
23 istockphoto.com 99.97%, 12m
24 cafepress.com 99.69%, 2h 17m
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Main on February 8th, 2010 by Pingdom

Trailblazers, creatives and innovators have taken the Internet to where it is today and made it an essential part of our everyday lives. We have selected a number of interesting “firsts” from the history of the Internet (and the Web) for your reading pleasure.
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Main on February 5th, 2010 by Pingdom
Facebook has announced that it now has 400 million active users. Just one year ago Facebook had 150 million users, so 2009 was an incredible year for the social media giant.
There can be no doubt that Facebook is pretty much unstoppable at the moment, a real juggernaut. For some perspective on Facebook’s amazing growth, we have put together this infographic. We hope you’ll enjoy it!
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Pingdom on February 4th, 2010 by Pingdom
Sometimes you want an easy way to share your Pingdom monitoring data with others. So far we’ve had public report pages that you can use, but now we’ve added one more sharing method that is very flexible and easy to use.
Enter our new “report banners”.
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Main on February 1st, 2010 by Pingdom

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock lately, you’ll know that last week Apple announced the iPad, its new tablet device. Reactions have been a mixed bag, and a storm of discussion has swept through the blogosphere about various features the iPad should or shouldn’t have had.
One of the main complaints so far has been the iPad’s lack of multitasking. (To be precise, multitasking is a bit of a misnomer here; the iPhone OS has multitasking. What people really mean is only allowing one app at a time to run.)
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Main on January 29th, 2010 by Pingdom
The tech industry is littered with billionaires. We all enjoy a good income, but some clearly have earned more than others. Much, much more. The question is, how much money do the really big names in tech actually have?
To find out, we went through the Forbes 400, a list of the wealthiest Americans, and filtered out the people who work within the tech field, or more specifically: IT.
So here they are, the 20 richest Americans in tech today.
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