As you may have noticed if you’re a regular reader of this blog, we launched a new design last week. We hope you like it.

Aside from the general visual design change, there are some other new things as well…

Write your own guest posts

Aside from all the great comments we’re getting from you, our readers, you can now also contribute to the blog by writing your own guest posts if you have something interesting to share.

It can be short and sweet or long and detailed. You decide.

We welcome any content along the lines of what we tend to cover. In other words, subjects like Web 2.0, Web development, the Internet, service outages, things to do with Web hosting and datacenters, and so on.

Just press the big button in the right column to get started.

Of course, we won’t just accept just any content. Ultimately, the posts have to be approved by us here at Pingdom before they are posted.

Four new content categories

As you can see, we have sorted all content into four new categories:

• Main – This is the main stream of articles from us.
• Pingdom – Posts about the Pingdom service, for example about new features.
• Outages – Posts about website downtime and other incidents on the Internet. These posts can often be of a shorter nature.
• Guest posts – As we mentioned above, you can now post your own guest posts, long or short.

Guest posts and outages are visible in a separate field to the right of the Main stream. Just click on them to read the full post.

Let us know what you think

So, what do you think about the new design? Let us know in the comments!

Before and after…

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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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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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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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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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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