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"... Just found this cool little site www.pingmycompany.com ... I dont know how long will they last but cool ..."

You haven't been on HN long? Do you work for zigron? An associate maybe? Blatant plugs like this post deserve a more skeptic view. The app works. No clean urls. I have a problem in submission of companies without knowing who is submitting the negative/positive vote. No transparency and it is easy to rig. Did pg really vote in favour of HN? ~ http://72.232.232.130/pingmycompany/ping_sheet.php?company_i...

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As I represent PingMyCompany.com so I will be honest.

All your concerns are true but the perspective of this site was to get all the possible views without the fear of finding out who did it.

Its just a fun site we put up in 2 days so we plan to make it more reliable if we get good response.

I will appreciate your suggestions if it can improve the sites credibility.

"... As I represent PingMyCompany.com so I will be honest. ..."

Excellent. Why not just say this is mine? Anyway I tried it. It reminds me as a cross between trumors and F@#ked company that was all the vogue after the last tech crash. The beauty of trumors is it's a vertical twitter. The value is both entertaining and the sliced categories ready made for advertising. As more users add & use the service there must be some interesting things you could infer.

Get enough stories and users and you can even spin off the data to another site. For instance ~ http://alltop.com/

"... I will appreciate your suggestions if it can improve the sites credibility ..."

  Put the site to work.
  I wonder how well it 
  would work as a tool 
  to measure company 
  problems ?

Stand behind it. Make it clear what it is. And what it is not. Read here for an idea how trumors place the product and their company ~ http://truemors.com/about/

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