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Main on April 2nd, 2007 by Pingdom
These are the 20 most popular websites in the United States, according to Alexa. In other words, they have tons of visitor traffic. How are they holding up under that pressure? Here you can see the downtime so far in 2007 for each of these 20 websites, as measured by GIGRIB.
Downtime in 2007 for the Alexa top 20 websites
Each site below links to its GIGRIB report page where you can examine their uptime and downtime more closely.
Site Downtime
1 yahoo.com 0m
2 google.com 7m
3 myspace.com 1h 0m
4 msn.com 2h 45m
5 ebay.com 6m
6 youtube.com 4h 44m
7 facebook.com 25m
8 wikipedia.org 2h 23m
9 craigslist.org 1h 9m
10 live.com 1h 48m
11 amazon.com 21m
12 blogger.com 4h 47m
13 go.com 8m
14 aol.com 3m
15 microsoft.com 13m
16 cnn.com 22m
17 comcast.net 3m
18 imdb.com 29m
19 flickr.com 30m
20 photobucket.com 1h 23m
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Main on December 14th, 2009 by Devindra Hardawar

Ask yourself this: “What would I use a tablet for?” Regardless of the recent drama surrounding the Crunchpad’s untimely end – and the disappointing Fusion Garage Joojoo tablet taking its place – it seems that the entire tech industry is ready to embrace tablets with open arms. There’s the never-ending hype about the possible Apple tablet, Microsoft Research’s Courier project, and netbook companies like Asus announcing they’re developing tablets in the coming year. We’re also seeing articles predicting 2010 as the year of the tablet, and others espousing why tablets signal the end of netbooks.
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Main on December 11th, 2009 by Pingdom

We often think of computers as a very modern phenomenon, but there were actually plenty of computers around 50 years ago. They just weren’t an everyman commodity, instead limited to goverment and corporate use. And they certainly weren’t small. Some of them had imaginative names like Whirlwind, Colossus and Pegasus, while others were slightly less poetic with names like Z4, AN/FSQ-7 and ENIAC.
Below we have listed as many as 19 examples of computers from the early days, pioneering efforts that although cutting edge in their day now look lovingly retro.
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Main on December 10th, 2009 by Garin Kilpatrick
Although Lists isn’t a new concept (Friendfeed has had them for months) they have proven to be a great addition to Twitter. Lists make it easier than ever to categorize users and curate content for your followers and yourself. The ability to create lists does indeed add fantastic value to Twitter, and lists can even be grabbed as an embeddable widget that can easily be customized and added to your personal website.
Looking for cool twitterers for your lists? Look no further. Here are 25 notable geeks, picked from five excellent tech lists.
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Main on December 9th, 2009 by Devindra Hardawar
With the release of Google Public DNS, it appears that Google is making good on their earlier call to action for making the Web faster. In conjunction with that announcement several months ago, they launched the “Speed” site at Google Code with the headline “Let’s make the Web faster.” After setting up their DNS servers, which replaces the DNS servers from my ISP, I can confirm that my web browsing is indeed much zippier than before. So much so that it’s sort of shocking that ISP’s don’t seem to do much DNS optimization on their own – then again, why would they?
At first, this got me thinking about the self-serving aspects of Google Public DNS, in addition to Google’s other speed initiatives – which include Chrome, Chrome OS, and the announcement of the SPDY protocol.
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Main on December 8th, 2009 by Thursday Bram
There are an impressive number of website analytics packages out there, with a wide range in price and features. But many of those analytics tools are only available online: you have to log in to a website to get at your data. The options for a desktop-based tool are fewer and farther between, but there are a few useful tools out there.
Check out these four options to see if a desktop application will fit the way you handle your website analytics.
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