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We wanted to share an interesting observation regarding the two social networks that are dominating our collective mindshare these days: Facebook and Twitter.
Both get their fair share of attention from the media, but a very interesting pattern has emerged over the last year that we will reveal here below.
These days if you try to find news involving the word “cloud,” you’re more likely to get an article about cloud computing than you are finding a weather report. If the amount of news referencing “cloud” is anything to go by, the media has embraced this new terminology with open arms, starting in 2008.
We know Twitter is getting a lot of press these days, but how much? And how much media attention are they getting compared to other hugely popular sites and companies like Facebook, YouTube and Google? Read on to find out.
We all know which sites are popular today, but at one point they were new up-and-comers with an uncertain future. What was the buzz around these websites when they were just getting started? What was being said? We’ve done the digging so you can do the reading.
We looked for early mentions of YouTube, Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Google in the press and blogosphere.
We have surveyed the availability of the official websites of US presidential candidates Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Ron Paul from February 15 to April 7 (using Pingdom’s uptime monitoring service). These websites are an important medium for the candidates, where press releases and information about the candidates can be presented, and it [...]
Pingdom showed up in a lot of places last month, both in press, blogs and forums, including a positive review in Microsoft’s TechNet Magazine and also being on the front page of both Digg and Reddit. We keep growing and January was another good month for us, something we are of course very happy about. [...]
The January 2008 issue of Microsoft’s TechNet Magazine features a review of Pingdom’s uptime monitoring service. TechNet Magazine is delivered to 100,000 IT professionals. A few quotes from the review: I’ve said this before, and I simply can’t stress it enough: a proactive approach to systems administration will result in less stress and will help [...]
Here are some of the places in the media where Pingdom was mentioned in the last month of 2007. You may want to take a deep breath if you are reading this out loud: Washington Post, Linux Journal, The Register, Barrons, Computerworld, Geek.com, Silicon Alley Insider, WebProNews, TechCrunch, GigaOM, Mashable, Read/Write Web, Download Squad, Center [...]
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 [...]
There is an interview with Sam Nurmi, our CEO, over at the popular web technology blog and news site CenterNetworks. If you want to learn more about what makes Sam tick, and his thoughts and plans for Pingdom and the uptime monitoring industry as a whole, we recommend that you head over to CenterNetworks and [...]
