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hey guys jon rettinger from TechnoBuffalo here today is December second which means it's been one month since technobuffalo launched and I thought I'd be appropriate to celebrate our one month birthday by sharing some information with you about the site how we're doing sort of give you guys a look behind the curtains of technobuffalo so like I mentioned weed alive for one month and then that one month we have achieved a fair amount of success and notoriety we've had well over 600,000 total pageviews which is almost double what our initial projections were in the business plan something that I'm extremely proud of if you're familiar with Alexa rankings what Alexa does it rings all the sites originally in worldwide into a database and gives them a number so in the United States technobuffalo is now the 11,000 106 the most viewed site in the country and globally we are 60 1970 third most viewed do you think about all the sites in the world at something that we're really proud of when we first tried to launch in September and the servers crash it was a very deflating day and we weren't sure where we're gonna be able to get the site up and launched but since that happened we migrated over service providers we moved from a Windows environment to a nice environment and we beefed up our servers to probably overkill to make suree we're not going to have a duplicate problem we still have a lot of bugs to work out and some things were kind of fixed but the site is very very very much alive and doing better than we ever could have expected so we're really very happy and really excited in the month we've had almost a hundred thousand users register for their own domains we've got almost that same amount to create their own sub blogs and the content is coming out like crazy we're working on ways to get your content featured more regularly what you see right now is TechnoBuffalo one point oh I'm working on which store to bring you one point one or two point oh what we really want to do with sort of first and foremost in our mind is to make sure the user content you guys are putting up under sub blogs it's going to get more apply on the homepage so I working on ways in a dashboard people to go into user sub logs and sort of sort the content and see what's there fine was most useful to them you guys are putting out this fantastic amount of work and we want you guys to get the rewards for it so hopefully this new dashboard that we're working on will ultimately get you guys the exposure that you deserve we're also working on a new commenting system a way to make the way people or comments a little bit more elegant and work with some threaded messaging and waiting for you to go to login in a myriad of different ways that's not a thing that we're sort of working on a really excited about over the next few weeks to see some design tweaks as well you'll see some Lobos change and you'll see some things show up in different places and that's just us squeaking the sight to see oh really what works and there's no better sense of checking what works what doesn't work then really doing in the live environment so if you start seeing things move around and looked a little different cannot drop us a line let us know what you think we're really curious to get use your feedback like I mentioned the sites always been about you and we're really excited to you know give you guys what we promised we're also in the process of expanding we're hiring new writers to contribute content to the site so we should be getting content up there on a fairly regular and more regular basis right now we're looking somewhere between the six to eight pieces of content a day like to get that up to upwards of 10 to 12 pieces of content a day there's more stuff for you guys to read more surf you to watch and hope there's more stuff for us to talk about there's so much to do and so much to discuss in the tech world that really need to expand our staff in order to be able to do that so we're really excited about this site and we're excited about the progress that we're making we've gone from four from nothing to zero to a legitimate technology community and we clearly could have done any of that without you guys so thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support thank you for your feedback on technobuffalo a lot of the stuff that you've been sending me has been put in place for this two point oh that were working on so again thank you guys for your involvement anyway I'll keep doing these periodically with something to announce I want them to be complete transparency between me and the site so you guys can sort of know what we're doing and sort of the trials and tribulations we're going through hope it will help you build your own technobuffalo sub blog and if you want to add writers to your own site you get a sense of how to then how to build your content so guys I hope you enjoyed and I'll see you in the next video bye bye