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Think about it, it makes sense…
The iTunes transfer may be the key to this working. It’s certainly a lot cheaper to operate as it bypasses the mobile phone operators.
So what’s missing? Well the Apple phone of course!
Just a prediction…
There’s a few interesting betas i’d like to get in on… i won’t list the google/yahoo ones, here are my favourites at the moment:
My friend Adam pointed me at this web based bug tracker:
http://www.tailshq.com/
And Ryan of DropSend is working on his new app, a marketing tool for newsletter owners:
http://www.heyamigo.net/
I’d sign up for both if you’re in the business of making or using webapps…
A couple of web widget.. erm, things.. have appeared. (are they webapps?). They essentially let you build, share and sell, small plugins (although i’m sure they’d hate me calling them that!) to sit on people’s websites..
WidgetBox, the web widget marketplace (placing itself as the big boy on the block)
http://www.widgetbox.com/
And then Jay has this going on:
http://www.snipperoo.com
Then sign up for mine too :)
This is my first app, completely independently. being built by myself and Nick.
http://www.pingbase.com/
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The day after i posted this i got an Odeo voicemail from Dan, the Tails developer…
Services that monitor websites for downtime are not new. Do a Google search for server monitoring and you’ll find hundreds of links to many competing companies. So surely starting a new monitoring service must be like opening a new car dealership next door to BMW’s store on Park Lane?
But what if you’re selling Smart cars?
PingBase is a more efficient, modern and affordable car. A car designed for not only the driver but it’s environment and the cohabitants of that environment.
All these monitoring services certainly do their job, although I’ve not used them all, so what’s wrong with them?
I think that last point may be the most important. Everybody and their fathers brothers have a website and they all need to know the uptime, or downtime of their sites. A persons blog is a very important thing. Some livelihoods are made from blogs as well as reputations built from them.
If your blog is down, you need to know! But you shouldn’t have to pay more than it costs you to have the website for that knowledge.
Enter PingBase, a modern website monitor built for you, your friends, your company or your rabbit.
If you want to monitor your blog, PingBase will do that, for free, forever. If you want more, then you can upgrade to the first level which will allow you to monitor 10 URLs for $15/month with the added bonus of receiving SMS (text messages) as well as email when your site goes down.
There is an FAQ that should answer more of your questions, and you can sign up to know when it’s launched from any page on the site.
I’m really excited to get this up and running, I’ve been looking forward to announcing it.. I know it’ll be a useful addition to many peoples online lives.
Andy recently made a very good point about people expectations for free wifi.
I realised quite early on what we were doing providing free wifi in brighton. people in brighton got very used to it and we started getting phone calls from them when they were out of town, “why isn’t it free? i thought it free in bars and cafes?”…
Andy’s right people have to come expect it for free.
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