I’m in the final stages of migrating CodeBetter.Com to Community Server 2.0. I want to congratulate Telligent with the great job they’ve done with this new version. There’s lots of nice new stuff in the UI, all based on Component Art’s latest suite of web controls. As a result, it’s a much much easier blogging and forum tool to use. Great job Telligent! There are a couple of custom controls that I need to write before I get CodeBetter upgraded, but that shouldn’t take long. I highly recommend ComponentArt’s controls… I’m using them on a few projects, and they are excellent.
So, I’ve already done the upgrade from 1.1 to 2.0 over at CycleBetter.Com, and it went off without a hitch. CycleBetter (familiar name huh?) is my attempt at creating a thriving community of bloggers around cycling. It’s going pretty well, and beginning to thrive I sense. In fact, I’ve added 4 new great blogs this week.
Focused Feeds
Speaking of CycleBetter, it’s my second attempt at creating a focused feed blogging site. I’m totally hooked on this idea of focused feeds. I think it’s been a big part of our success here at CodeBetter. We try and stay focused, that way, you don’t have to sort through a bunch of junk just to get to the good stuff. At CodeBetter we also try to take it a step further here and not only stay focused but also stay lean – we try not to post the same stuff that you see everywhere else, focused or not.
As far as I can tell, CycleBetter is one of the few, if not only, biking sites providing focused feeds for cycling blogs. There are plenty of sites that list cycling blogs, but not many providing focused feeds around cycling. I’m hoping to branch out into other areas, but I’ve got to prove the concept first with CycleBetter.Com. I’ll let you know how it goes…
-Brendan