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Podcast on April 16th, 2012 by Pingdom

In this show, we talk to Jon Buscall of Jontus Media, a digital marketing strategy, content creation, and web design business, about podcasting.
Jon creates and publishes podcasts for his own company as well as for clients so he has plenty of experience to share. We talk about why you, as a company, would want to start a podcast; what kind of equipment is needed; and how a podcast can fit in the mix of blogging, social media and what else you’re already doing.
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Main on April 16th, 2012 by Pingdom

Yeah, we know, Apple is the hot thing right now and WWDC is the party you want to go to. But tickets to WWDC sold out in 8 days in 2010 and in less than 12 hours in 2011. Obviously, it’s critical that you get online just as soon as Apple has released the tickets.
That’s where Pingdom monitoring comes in, and here’s how you do it.
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Podcast on April 12th, 2012 by Pingdom

In this show, we talk to Nicolai Solling, Director of Technology Services at help AG, about security. The topics we cover include that around 700,000 Macs have been struck by a trojan, a survey says that using a computer without security software is seen as riskier than leaving the door to one’s home or car unlocked, and the FBI says that smart meter hacks are likely to spread.
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Podcast on April 4th, 2012 by Pingdom

In this show, we talk to Nicolai Solling, Director of Technology Services help AG, about security. We cover the fact that the Internet didn’t stop working a few days ago when Anonymous was supposed to take down the root DNS servers, how the Github community was up in arms over a security flaw and how it was dealt with, new Android malware, and how you can be tracked across websites.
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Main on April 3rd, 2012 by Pingdom
Google’s Chrome web browser has become a worldwide success, but it’s more popular in some parts of the world than in others. It became the top browser in South America back in October 2011, and as of March this year it’s also become the top browser in Asia.
Up until March this year, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was the most widely used browser in Asia, but now it’s finally lost its crown after a reign that has lasted at least a decade. It took Chrome 3.5 years to trump IE in Asia (Chrome launched in September 2008). It now has 36.41% of the browser market in Asia, versus IE’s 34.57%.
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Main on March 30th, 2012 by Pingdom

This week we thought you would be interested in reading about what’s happening with HTML5.
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, security, and other geeky topics.
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Podcast on March 27th, 2012 by Pingdom

In this show, we talk to Romain Goyet, co-founder of Applidium. We first got in touch with Romain because we had spotted the Vim for iPad and iPhone app. The discussion ranged from Applidium’s apps, iOS versus Android, the new iPad, and much more.
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Main on March 26th, 2012 by Pingdom

The Apache HTTP Server is the most common web server software in the world, by far. According to one recent survey, over 420 million web sites run Apache HTTP. With such amazing numbers it’s obvious that we’re curious to find out more about Apache.
So it was with great gusto that we sat down with the former Vice President of the all-volunteer Apache HTTP Server Project to talk about a wide range of topics. We grilled him on how the team works internally with keeping Apache HTTP Server secure, if they look at market share numbers, and whether or not open source software is more secure than closed source software.
It was quite an eye opening experience in many ways. Read on to find out why.
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Podcast on March 26th, 2012 by Pingdom

In this show we were joined by Jacob Gardiner, National Hosting Manager at Squiz. They develop a portfolio of products centered on an open source CMS called Matrix. Check out their Suite and Labs. We talked about a range of issues including how to make money on open source, responsive web design, and much more.
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Main on March 23rd, 2012 by Pingdom

This week we thought you would be interested in reading some more about what’s happening with the open source browser engine WebKit.
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, security, and other geeky topics.
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