In our never ending quest to provide you with the best uptime and performance monitoring service, we now present you with our brand new app for the Google Chrome web browser.

It is, of course, completely free!

With the app installed in your Chrome browser, you get easy access to your Pingdom account from Chrome’s Apps page. Chrome accounted for just over 40% of the traffic to Pingdom.com over the last 30 days, so we hope you will find this interesting and useful.

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The work on getting our brand new office ready continues at breakneck speed. We shared with you the progress back in November and now it’s time for an update.

We’ve been visiting the office on a weekly basis to keep an eye on what’s happening. Since the last time, the main development is that there is now carpet in most of the office as well as the dropped ceiling is in place. Basically, it’s all coming together.

What we’re probably most proud of, however, are the handles for the bathrooms. They stay lit in green until someone occupies the bathroom; then green turns to red. How clever is that?

Read on to find out what other cool stuff the new Pingdom office offers.

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Yesterday we introduced you to Svante, our new System Administrator, and today it’s Fredrik Berglund’s turn. Would you believe it, Fredrik also comes from Eskilstuna, just like Svante, and Fredrik also got started with programming on a PC with Intel 286 processor. They even went to the same university!

But let’s turn our attention back to Fredrik, for a moment.

That 286 PC, which his dad dragged home, really got Fredrik working hard on his programming skills, getting to grips with assembly language and even hexadecimal code. His interest in computers then took him to studies in computational science at Mälardalens University.

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This week, the Pingdom team, is getting reinforcement in the form of Svante Boberg who joins us as System Administrator.

At Pingdom, Svante will work with a wide range of tasks, including maintenance of infrastructure, upgrades, and more. To put it in another way, he will make sure it all runs.

Svante hails from Eskilstuna, which is right next door to the Pingdom HQ in Västerås, Sweden. He started using computers at a very early age, and began programming in QBasic on his first computer, which was an Intel 286-based PC.

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If you want to work for a popular, fast-growing web services company with a global audience, Pingdom is the place for you.

Do you live in Sweden? Then why not jump on these opportunities right away?

We’re starting a new year with lots of things happening and with lots of promise and excitement for the future. Pingdom is going from strength to strength, and we’re looking to expand our great team with another set of talented and driven individuals.

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