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Main on December 22nd, 2011 by Pingdom
Comments from readers is an important part of most blogs out there, and our own is no exception. We still run the default Wordpress comment functionality but have been thinking for a while now about installing some kind of third-party comment system.
Something like Disqus, Facebook Comments, Livefyre, or IntenseDebate would allow us greater functionality, spam management, moderation capabilities, and more.
But which system should we go for?
We investigated the Top 100 Technorati list to see what some of the biggest blogs in the world are using and here’s what we found.
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Main on September 11th, 2009 by Pingdom
Last Friday we started our look into the history of computer messaging and which applications and services we have used to communicate over computer networks through the decades.
So far we have covered the time period from 1960 to 1990, i.e. the era before the birth of the World Wide Web that we live in today. Now it’s time to continue our journey through the history of computer messaging, from 1990 until today.
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Main on May 12th, 2009 by Pingdom
A huge number of blogs use Feedburner to syndicate their RSS feeds. Since the service was launched in 2004, it’s pretty much become the de facto standard for this. With so many bloggers relying on Feedburner, reliability and performance is of course extremely important. RSS feeds, just like websites, need to be available all the time on the Web.
We have tested Feedburner’s RSS feed performance and uptime.
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Main on January 22nd, 2009 by Pingdom
What happened with the Internet in 2008?
How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many blog posts were published? This post will answer those questions and many others with more interesting statistics than you can shake a stick at. 
We have used a wide variety of sources from around the Web. A full list of source references is available at the bottom of the post for those interested.
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Posted in
Outages on December 4th, 2008 by Pingdom
At 8:38 a.m. EST yesterday, December 3, the Technorati website all of a sudden started refusing access to all visitors, responding with an HTTP 403 error (access denied). The problem was not resolved until 9:44 a.m.
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Main on November 21st, 2006 by Pingdom
YouTube has around 20 million unique visitors every month, and thousands of blogs and websites link to YouTube videos. They serve more than 100 million videos per day, and more than 65,000 videos are uploaded daily. As a small metric of how popular YouTube has become in little over a year, according to Alexa data, [...]
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