It has been a very interesting month for The Lounge, I am very disappointed to announce that Rick Strahl and Roy Osherove have left the .NET room to join a competing network. It was only a matter of time until a competing network was created, The Lounge has been very successful so far and existing companies need to do what they can to try and "get in on the action". I am disappointed to lose publishers though, but I hope to win them back in the future.
This month I moved the Lounge to it's own domain, theloungenet.com, I liked having it under Infozerk but I think it will work better as a completely separate brand.
I am thrilled to announce a new addition to the .NET room: the excellent community blog site LosTechies home to a ton of top-notch bloggers. The site is relatively new but is growing very quickly and will make a great addition to the room.
The Small Publishers Room also continues to grow at a break-neck speed, this month we hit 20 publishers with the addition of 4 new publishers this month:
I have been following Scott Koon's blog (lazycoder) for awhile, but he is another person who I got to know through Twitter more than anything. He writes a great blog and is part of the excellent new podcast Herding Code.
Nick has been blogging a lot about ASP.NET MVC and was the author of the highly humorous post about what blogger girls like the best.
Just Etheredge is another developer I got to know on Twitter and is the author of the excellent blog CodeThinked.
And lastly I finally decided to move my own blog to the Small Publishers Room. I have been showing Lounge ads on my blog since the beginning but I was never officially in a room.
Also this month I have made the podcast sponsorships that I have been selling official by adding a new Podcast Room to The Lounge, right now I am working with the Alt.Net Podcadst and Deep Fried Bytes.
I also added a Screencast Room for the work I am doing with DimeCasts.NET.
Overall it has been a great month despite a small bump in the road, I look forward to what July will bring. I plan on opening at least one more room this month, and have another good announcement I hope to have ready soon.
-James