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Main on December 13th, 2007 by Pingdom
Usually downtime on the internet is a Bad Thing ™, whether it is network downtime or server downtime or any other malfunction.
But let’s face it, there are some things we would happily see go down.
Spam servers
If spam would end, even for just a while, the mail servers of the world would heave a collective sigh of relief. Whatever software that is making those spam botnets possible is also welcome to crash.
Spam blogs
Sometimes it seems like there are more spam blogs than real blogs. They even have a name of their own these days: splogs.
Phishing sites
Who in their right mind would want these around?
Your competition
Be honest now. Admit that you can’t help but smile just a little bit if your competition’s website goes down for a while.
Spyware backends
No, we don’t want you to phone home! Servers that collect data from spyware are more than welcome to go down permanently, thank you very much.
ECHELON
Big Brother could use a break, don’t you think? They are working so hard.
That rounds off our little list. Care to add some of your own?
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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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Jonathan
December 14th, 2007 at 6:43 am
http://www.microsoft.com! *evil grin*
I.Owens
December 17th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
I would like to see The so called `FREE` websites crash you must know the one`s I mean. You know the one`s I mean, it takes two pages to register and just when you are ready to explore the site , you click the link for next page and it says a special introductory offer of £4.95. How the hell is that bloody free then! That is annyoing!