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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Time for a smile: stupid facts about social media

Fact: people in Denmark can be funny. Fact: social media marketing companies in Denmark know how to use Powerpoint. Fact: social media marketing companies in Denmark know how to waste some time making funny presentations and putting them on slideshare.

Fact: here is the funny social media marketing presentation a social media marketing company from Denmark, that goes by the name Mindjumpers, has made and put on slideshare today. Fact: it made me smile.

Fact: the people at Mindjumpers make jokes but they are serious about social media marketing. They just don’t like the hype.

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