If you are experiencing problems connecting to your favourite networking website or online email accounts how do you determine whether the problem is at your end or theirs?

Well, there is a website that constantly monitors Facebook, Ning, Twitter, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Windows Live Hotmail, Blogger, Live Journal and TypePad.  Simply go to www.downrightnow.com to see the current service status.  Downrightnow monitors the status of your favourite web services, combining user reports and official announcements to tell you when there's service trouble giving you information on a handy summary screen as shown below.