2006 was very good to us. Our company has grown extremely fast and now has customers in 126 countries. Pingdom is being used by everything from small one-man companies to large enterprises. Our customers include smart and successful companies such as Alexa Internet, Feedburner, Crazy Egg, Mosso and 1&1 Internet.

The introduction of our full-featured trial mode proved extremely popular, and reviews of Pingdom have been very positive. Our focus on ease of use and simplicity has helped remove most of the complexity that people associate with uptime monitoring, while not skimping on features.

From PaulStamatiou.com:

It’s not every day you find a service like the Sweden-based Pingdom. Pingdom provides an excellent service with a great interface.

Pingdom has been referenced in Computerworld, Networkworld, WebProNews, TechCrunch, GigaOM and many others.

Pingdom’s 2007
If you like what you have seen so far, we can guarantee that you are going to love what you will be seeing from us in 2007. You will be getting more of everything, but without any added complexity. More ways to monitor, more ways to be alerted, more monitoring locations, more possibilities. You will notice new things and new steps forward being taken every month.

The future of uptime monitoring
Uptime monitoring benefits everyone. It benefits the companies using monitoring since it is a tool that helps them maximize their uptime, and it benefits their customers since these companies’ services become more reliable.

Our goal is simply to be the best uptime monitoring solution, all categories.

Pingdom’s Podcast is a weekly show about Internet, web, security, and mobile stuff.

In this show, Saleh also gives us an update on the pending approval of his Carbon for Windows Phone Twitter client. We also talked about Nokia’s recent financial results, if Google Chrome can hit more than 50% market share this year, and the recent privacy-blunder by the guys behind the Path mobile app.

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There’s no denying that Google Chrome continues to be the darling of the web browser market. And as we predicted in July last year, Chrome overtook Firefox around November 2011.

So now the question is, when will Google also wrestle down Internet Explorer, and become the undisputed king of the browser world? In December 2011, Chrome 15 became the most popular browser in the world, beating Internet Explorer 8, but if you combine all IE versions, Microsoft still holds the number 1 spot.

Equipped with the latest web browser statistics from StatCounter, we set out to see when Chrome is likely to achieve more than 50% market share.

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Want to see how your favorite US sports site is doing, if it has a perfect 100% uptime score or not? If you want to check the latest scores and it isn’t working, could it be a problem with your computer or connection, or the site? We’ve got the solution for you!

For some time now we’ve been monitoring 34 major US sports and news sites related to sports. Our recent articles on the Super Bowl are a result of that monitoring.

Now you can look at how these sites are doing yourself on the public reports page for this list of US sports websites.

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Who has not used Google Maps? Raise your hand! Since the launch 7 years ago, Google Maps has become the de facto map service that users around the world go to for all their mapping needs.

As we say Happy Birthday to Google Maps, read on to find out some of the critical milestones in its history, and some amazing numbers and statistics.

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In 2010, there were just over 1 million secure Internet websites worldwide. Almost half of those, or 446,992 to be exact, were located in the United States.

But in which country can we find the most secure websites in relation to population? The answer may surprise you.

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