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Glowing review of Pingdom over at tech blog LiewCF

The tech blog LiewCF.com has given Pingdom’s uptime monitoring service a very positive review.

A few quotes from the review:

As a full-time blogger, losing traffic means losing money. Therefore, website uptime is a critical issue to me. Besides getting a reliable web server, I also need a good website uptime monitor to notify me as soon as something goes wrong…

If your website uptime is important to you, I highly recommend Pingdom’s website monitoring service.

Review of Pingdom at LiewCF.com

We’re very happy about receiving such a glowing review. You can read the whole thing over at LiewCF.com. Thanks to Liew Chen Fong for taking the time to review Pingdom.

He has a very good point regarding the importance of uptime when you are making a living off your blog. Downtime = lost traffic = lost exposure of both your blog and the advertising on it. Downtime can also seriously hurt your rankings in search engines, an important source of traffic for many bloggers. This of course doesn’t just apply to blogging, but it’s a good example.

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Pingdom Podcast #6

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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Up or not? Keep track of your favorite US sports websites

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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Google Maps turns 7 years old – amazing facts and figures

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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