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By James Barnes
Product & Updates
A Message from the StatusCake Founders to all Pingdom Users
< 1 min read Message to Pingdom Users: email StatusCake with any questions or feedback you may have about our website monitoring service.
James Barnes
April 11, 2013
In The News
Zynga Bets the Farm on Mobile & “Midcore” Gaming
2 min read Zynga, the company behind Farmville announced its new mobile-first focus. Read here what this means for the company’s future.
James Barnes
April 11, 2013
short-reads
Pay to Message Your Favourite Celebrity on Facebook
2 min read UK Facebook users have access to the same US feature that allows them to pay to send messages to users they can’t otherwise connect with!
James Barnes
April 8, 2013
Product & Updates
Website Monitoring In Brazil
< 1 min read On this page you can read about our new website monitoring centre in Brazil- one of the countries showing the fastest growing number of users.
James Barnes
April 4, 2013
In The News
Google News to Pay in Germany?
2 min read The battle with Google & German authorities progresses as the Bundestag approved a bill requiring Google to pay a fee for news snippets. Read more here!
James Barnes
April 4, 2013
short-reads
StatusCake’s Top 10 Technology Blogs – How Do You Start Your Day?
3 min read How do you find the best information on technology news and reviews? We’ve asked our team – here are the top 10!
James Barnes
March 25, 2013
Product & Updates
Italian Website Monitoring – Milan Monitoring Centre Opens
2 min read Read about how we’ve rolled out the first Italian website monitoring centre in Milan- one of the top start-up destinations for entrepreneurs.
James Barnes
March 22, 2013
short-reads
#Love Hastags? FaceBook Thinks the Same
2 min read Although the “#” is synonymous with Twitter, it’s also used by Instagram and Google+ and Facebook. Read about Facebook’s use of hashtags.
James Barnes
March 15, 2013
Product & Updates
New Feature – StatusCake PagerDuty Integration
< 1 min read PagerDuty is one of our most-requested integrations. We’ve listen to your requests and can announce the launch of PagerDuty integration!
James Barnes
March 14, 2013
In The News
Appy Days Are Here Again – Angry Birds to Hit a Screen Near You
2 min read Angry Birds to Hit a Screen Near You. Rovio announced that Angry Birds is to make its debut as a short cartoon series.
James Barnes
March 13, 2013
Product & Updates
StatusCake.com Rolls Out New Payment Gateway
2 min read We are always looking at new ways to improve our UX. Read about our move away from PayPal, as we opt for Stripe instead.
James Barnes
March 12, 2013
short-reads
Why Only Having 140 Characters is a Good Thing
3 min read See why Twitter’s former 140 character limit was a positive thing, and how being concise conveys your message most effectively.
James Barnes
March 12, 2013
Product & Updates
Get Alerted To Downtime – Your Way
< 1 min read Decide when & how you’re alerted: via email, SMS Twitter and push notifications for iOS & Android devices. It’s up to you to decide!
James Barnes
March 11, 2013
Product & Updates
Custom Defined Status Codes
< 1 min read Whether you have a paid or free account, you can receive alerts for 32 status codes & choose exactly which codes you’re alerted for.
James Barnes
March 11, 2013
Product & Updates
Content Matching
< 1 min read Content Matching is easy and on all paid website monitoring accounts. There’s plenty you can do with StatusCake Content Matching. See more.
James Barnes
March 11, 2013
short-reads
Google Glass – The All-Seeing, Every-Recording Eye
3 min read So surely the ability to simply record content can’t be the issue for privacy advocates? Nor surely does it stack up to say that when someone records on the smart phone it’s more “obvious” – you can spot who is filming you. I’m not sure that anyone wearing Google Glass is going to blend into the background – in the short term at least.
James Barnes
March 11, 2013
Product & Updates
Website Monitoring in America
< 1 min read we have, for now at least, shut down our San Jose monitoring centre (it only supported iPv4) and added in a new monitoring centre in Las Vegas. We now have six monitoring centres in the United States, all save for our second server in New York are fully iPv6 supported. Details of their IPs, so that you can white-list them, are provided below. You’ll find details of all our monitoring centers in the Knowledge Base.
James Barnes
March 5, 2013
short-reads
Web Font For Design Mockups
< 1 min read The font is inspired by work created over at BlockFont but makes improvements to the block width meaning the fake-text is a much better representation of actual text (without being actually text!). Along with the standard Redacted block text form the font set also includes a script style and a bold script style.
James Barnes
March 2, 2013
Blog
Welcome To The New Blog
2 min read It is very much our hope that by creating this blog we will be able to write some genuinely helpful and interesting posts – and hey even give you a few laughs here and there! Please do feel free to get engaged within the comments of the posts and as always we’ll be listening to feedback about this new area of the site.
James Barnes
March 1, 2013
Product & Updates
Alternative to Monitor Us
< 1 min read Although both StatusCake.com and Monitor.us allow you to monitor an unlimited number of websites, the fair-use policy imposed by Monitor.us is less than 50*. At StatusCake we don’t care whether you’ve got 50 or 100 or more – you’ll still be able to enjoy free website monitoring with us.
James Barnes
February 27, 2013
Product & Updates
API Now Live
2 min read It’s now been four days since we launched our February StatusCake customer survey and we hope you’ve started to see some of the great changes as a direct result of your feedback.
James Barnes
February 26, 2013
Product & Updates
Improvements To Email Deliverability & Speed
2 min read At StatusCake we sends hundreds of thousands of email alerts a month – letting you know when you website has gone down, and then when it has come back up.
James Barnes
February 24, 2013
Product & Updates
New Zealand Website Monitoring
< 1 min read Even if your site isn’t down you’re not going to be able understand how well it’s performing if your relying on website monitoring from thousands of miles away. When you use our Auckland test location you can get an accurate representation of how quickly your website loads for other New Zealanders.
James Barnes
February 13, 2013
Product & Updates
UK Uptime Monitoring – Checking your website downtime from across the UK
< 1 min read StatusCake’s UK downtime monitoring is free to all users, allowing you to monitor an unlimited number of websites or tests with your site being checked for downtime every 5 minutes. And if you want more frequent downtime checks or added features – such as malware checking, real user monitoring or content matching then sign-up for one of our paid accounts.
James Barnes
February 13, 2013