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Guest posts on June 29th, 2009 by Pingdom
This has to be one of the more bizarre gadgets we’ve seen lately. It’s a Japanese device called the Akiduki Pulse box that automatically posts your heart rate to Twitter.
The question here is what will happen if your Internet connection goes down and you stop updating that heart rate. Will people start wondering if you died…?
That gives a whole new meaning to the word “uptime”, not to mention all the analogies that are used in networks and network monitoring, such as “heartbeats”, “keep-alive”, and “time to live”. 
Found via Crunchgear.
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Main on February 7th, 2012 by Pingdom
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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Main on February 6th, 2012 by Pingdom
The New England Patriots held what seemed to be a commanding lead (17-15) with five minutes left of Super Bowl XLVI last night. But the New York Giants came back and managed to win with 21-17.
As exciting as the game sounds, we missed the whole thing, instead spending our time watching the Superbowl.com website.
It turned out to be a rather dull thing to do because the site held up well and there was no downtime at all. The response time also didn’t give away anything significant in terms of online Super Bowl traffic.
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Main on February 3rd, 2012 by Pingdom
As Super Bowl 46 is approaching, fans will flock to the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, and to TV sets around the world to follow the New York Giants battle it out with the New England Patriots.
Kickoff is scheduled for 6:30EST on Sunday, February 5, and we’re already monitoring Superbowl.com to see how the site will handle the event.
What team will win Super Bowl 46? How will the site cope? We can only wait to find out.
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Main on February 3rd, 2012 by Pingdom
Every Friday we bring you a collection of links to places on the web that we find particularly newsworthy, interesting, entertaining, and topical. We try to focus on some particular area or topic each week, but in general we will cover Internet, web development, networking, performance, and other geeky topics.h
This week we bring you a collection of articles focusing on cloud, with a few other topics thrown in to boot.
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Main on February 2nd, 2012 by Pingdom
Out of the 59 US-based e-commerce sites we monitored during the holiday season last year 28 scored a perfect 100% uptime for December.
Whether this helped spur on the booming sales in the US, we don’t know, but retail e-commerce spending in the US reached $37.2 billion for the November to December 2011 period. That was an increase of 15% from the same period in 2010.
We decided to dig into the numbers for these e-commerce sites to see how well they did in terms of uptime and performance. After massaging the data coming from our Pingdom probes, it turns out that the sites overall performed well during December 2011 in terms of uptime, but response time was an issue for several sites.
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Robert Stinnett
June 29th, 2009 at 11:58 am
When I first read this I thought to myself “alright, enough is enough” but then I thought of a few practical uses for it. For instance, to keep tabs on patient(s) after a heart attack, etc. when they are resting at home.
We often think that things have to cost a lot to be valuable, but this shows that a low-cost solution might be just as good as the higher priced, specialized medical devices that do the same thing.
@robertstinnett
Mikeumus
August 25th, 2009 at 11:54 am
This is an awesome device and very creative. It shows that people (consumers) do not have to settle for what is on the shelve. That they too have the ability to create something tangible with great utility.
My hat goes off to this inventor.
~Mikeumus