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Well “ two years fly by when you ‘re having fun, and I ‘ve been having a ton of fun running this site for (nearly) two years now. During the week of 8/24, we ‘ll hit the two year mark of this site ‘s existence. On last year ‘s one year mark I was very ill, so I didn ‘t get a chance to do anything about it “ but this time round I ‘d like to celebrate our ‘anniversary ‘ and say thanks to all of you for making this such a blast to do.
I feel like our little site has done very well for itself over these two years, and has got some very nice momentum in 2009 especially “ with a great team of writers, more and more interesting comments and discussion, a lively Twitter following, and some good traffic and RSS numbers “ as well as a major hosting / site upgrade just a couple of months ago. Here are a few of the people I ‘d like to thank for helping to make the site thrive:
Our writers
Brandon, Thomas, Alicia, Josh, Brad, Joe, and Michael. All of these guys “ and our lone gal “ are turning out reviews, opinion pieces (and rants), tips & tricks posts, as well as some news and rumors coverage, that I think are just superb, and that I hope you ‘re enjoying even half as much as I am.
Our sponsors
Chris and everythingiCafe were our very first ad sponsors, starting with us over a year ago. In addition to running my favorite iPhone forum, they have a great iPhone accessories store, and an ever-growing number of social networking services. Go HERE to check them out when you have a chance.
Reg, Seth and the guys at AgileMobile are our second site sponsor. They ‘ve already run a couple of big giveaway contests with us and we ‘re looking forward to doing more soon. They ‘re the makers of my long-time favorite iPhone IM app, Agile Messenger “ which you can find HERE in the App Store.
I hope you all can give these guys a look, and show some love to our other site advertisers when possible, as they help us keep this place ticking along.
Friends of the Site “ mobile bloggers, iPhone devs, and others
There are, sadly, way too many to mention here, as I ‘ve enjoyed great help, advice, and friendship from so many excellent iPhone bloggers, general mobile tech bloggers, and mobile apps developers over these last few years. I have to mention a handful though: Doug Goldring at JAMM; Dan Cohen of Gear Diary (a former major contributor here); Charlie SG Aczon, creator of this site ‘s lovely masthead, occasional author here, master photographer and creative whiz and all-round great guy; Ellen, Marc, Julie and all the great folks at Ilium Software; Judie at Gear Diary, who is my ultimate tech blogging role model (and I know she is to many others as well) and whose voice sounds like Andie Mcdowell ‘s, for real; Alex at KRAPPS for being a great colleague and sounding board and Twitter pal; Kevin Doel, who is the coolest ‘PR guy ‘ I ‘ve ever come across; Patrick McCarron, Marcus Hobbs, Layton Duncan, and lots and lots of other iPhone devs who have helped us learn so much about apps and this whole fascinating platform we get to cover. I ‘ve left out tons of names here “ apologies for that and thanks to all of the others in this category as well.
All of You guys (and gals)
You know how this one goes, and I ‘m afraid I won ‘t find any new and exciting ways to say it. Without you all “ coming here to read our posts, commenting, tweeting our links, and all that jazz “ there ‘d be no site here. Your presence and contributions are what makes this all worthwhile, and what makes it so much fun. Thank you, thank you.
Anniversary Contests
To help say thank you, we ‘re going to be running a series of contests and giveaways during the ‘anniversary week ‘ and even sooner, starting today or tomorrow in fact. We ‘re going to have lots of promo codes for some great apps to giveaway, and even a few accessories as well.
So watch the site / RSS feed for details of contests very soon. Also, keep an eye on our Twitter accounts, as we ‘ll run some of the giveaways there as well. The main site account is @justiphoneblog “ and you can also follow Josh and Thomas (@joshgard and @ragart) for some contest news over the next couple of weeks.
I hope you ‘ll keep visiting and reading the site for another couple years (or more) “ and we ‘ll do our best to make it enjoyable to do so.
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