Posted in
Pingdom on August 23rd, 2007 by Pingdom
If you sign up for Pingdom uptime monitoring using a Firefox browser you will get a whole year for free (saving you $119.40). The offer is valid until Saturday. Sounds interesting? Visit the Pingdom sign-up page! (You don’t need a credit card.)
We are celebrating the successful release of our Mr Uptime Firefox extension by offering one year of Pingdom’s uptime monitoring service for FREE to all Firefox users. The normal cost is $119.40.
This is also a way for us to promote Firefox some more. Firefox is the default browser around the Pingdom offices and we wouldn’t have it any other way.
Above: Images taken from the Pingdom sign-up page.
All you webmasters out there: If you’re not already using Firefox, now might be a good time to start. 
What’s the deal?
No commitment and no credit card necessary. Just sign up for free.
What do I get?
- Monitor uptime and response time of 5 websites, servers or services
- 20 free SMS alerts
- Unlimited email alerts
- 1-minute monitoring resolution at no extra cost
- Monitoring from multiple locations around the world.
- Uptime and response time statistics
And a whole lot more… 
Go sign up!
P.S. We have set a limit of 1,000 accounts, so it’s first come, first served!
Want to test your site every minute?
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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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Posted in
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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Posted in
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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Posted in
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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