Brendan Tompkins [MVP]

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Devlicio.us Launched!

For the past few months, I've been working on a new blogging site for .NET developers. At Devlicio.us, I'm going to try to employ some of the same techniques that we've used here at CodeBetter.Com to help us become successful, like recruiting seasoned, smart bloggers, providing branding promotion and advertisement, and hopefully crafting a mainfeed with a small number of quality posts designed to be read in a sitting.

CodeBetter.Com has over 9,000 Bloglines Subs

It's a strategy that's worked for us here at CodeBetter, in fact, today we're celebrating over 9,000 Bloglines Subscriptions! That puts us ahead of CNET, Scripting News and USA Today's Technology feed. In fact, CodeBetter.Com's mainfeed is amongst the top 100 blogs, according to Bloglines.

Devlicio.us is Recruiting!

It's been hard deciding when to launch, but I've gone ahead and opened Devlicio.us' doors, even though you won't find a ton of posts there. I have lined up a few bloggers who are getting ready to post, but my #1 priority is to sign up some great blogs.

So, if you're 1) a .NET blogger looking for a new home, and a chance to get new readership, or 2) a seasoned .NET developer looking to start a blog or 3) know anyone who falls into category 1 or 2, get in touch with me at brendan.tompkins@gmail.com.

Thanks and be sure to check us out!

Published Sep 20 2006, 10:11 AM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: .NET, Devlicio.us, Blogging

Comments

Scott said:

Besides the domain name and new look, what's the difference between CodeBetter.Com and Devlicio.us? Do they both target the same type of bloggers and readers? Just curious.

Good luck with the new site!

# September 20, 2006 11:00 AM

Brendan Tompkins said:

Hi Scott,

I hope it will evolve on it's own into something fresh and compelling and *different*.

CodeBetter is unique, and is a result of a great group of bloggers who are also friends and colleagues... I think to a large extent the blog's flavor comes from this mix. I'm hoping to do something similar with Devlicio.us.. Get a great bunch of bloggers together and see what happens..

# September 20, 2006 11:14 AM

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# September 21, 2006 6:26 AM

Dave Donaldson's Blog said:

Devlicio.us Launched

# September 24, 2006 5:02 PM

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About Brendan Tompkins

Brendan has been programming with .NET since the first public beta and is owner and operator of Port Technology Services, a consultancy company providing .NET application development services to the Maritime industry. In July, 2007, he was awarded the Microsoft MVP award for ASP.NET. He's also a proud co-founder of failed .COM startup Intrinsigo, and has had a hand in the failure of numerous other businesses. He currently runs CodeBetter.Com and Devlicio.us, and lives in Norfolk, Virgina with his wife Tiara and son Ian.