The availability of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and MySpace compared

OK, I have to say sorry to the folks at Twitter. Although Twitter, in my opinion, seems to have slightly more ‘capacity’ issues lately, they of course are not the only ones that pay the price of success.

Now that I think about it: I would like to see this blog being over capacity now and then.

On a serious note: you probably know that there are thousands of companies worldwide that monitor the uptime and availability of (corporate) websites. They offer what is called “web performance management solutions”.

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Soon coming to a car near you: Twitter

It’s that time of the year again: CES. One of the keynote speakers at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show is Ford CEO Alan Mulally.

Ford is planning to take in-car entertainment and communications a step further.

By 2015 the company wants to equip 80% of its models with all kinds of technological features including web browsing and, yes, social networking.

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