I am happy to announce that Broadband Prime has moved to a dotcom domain. After being hosted for more than a year on blogspot.com and wordpress.com I finally settled to http://www.broadbandprime.com/
I planned to move the blog since the beginning of the year. Until recently this plan was simply my pet project; when I had time I was looking into it to ensure the transition could be made effectively. I would probably be going on for a couple more years, most likely, if I didn’t place it on “blog” priority 1 for the last 10 days.
So, Broadband Prime has finally moved. It wasn’t that easy and I had to do a lot of tweaking to bring the blog to its current format. The blog is running on wordpress 2.8. There are simply no words to describe precisely the functionality of the platform, the wide user community and the variety of plugins and addons available out there. All permalinks of broadbandprime.blogspot.com are preserved, so all your existing links to the blog’s content will keep working as they are (that was probably the most difficult part of the transition). The feed is also operational with no need for additional action from your side (if you are subscribed to the feedburner feed: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/BroadbandPrime or http://feeds.feedburner.com/BroadbandPrime). However, if you run into troubles please let me know and I will fix it ASAP.
A few things about the new UI of the blog. I have redefined the categorization of the content to make it easier for you to follow-up, and I have also changed the landing page. Instead of throwing a list of the most recent posts you now have all the content categorized at your disposal. I do hope you will find this more useful, at least I do.
The categories of the blog are the following:
- Access: Addresses issues relating to access networks, technologies, architectures, business models etc.
- Muni/Broadband: Covers municipal initiatives and issues relating to local authorities involvement in broadband infrastructures.
- Reviews: This includes weekly reviews, roundups, conference’s reviews, studies and analysis reports.
- Greece: This is a special horizontal category to incorporate all posts covering developments related to Greece.
- Green: Points to content relating to sustainability and environmental impact of broadband (nothing much there yet but is is a topic of great interest for this blog).
- Government: This category involves coverage on national broadband strategies, national broadband plans and most of the content dealing with regulation and policy if it does not fall to another category.
- Services: Services deal with any type of services and content that run on NGN (everything above layer 3 of the broadband market as described here )
- Expert Insight: This category will include primarily interviews conducted by me with experts and field specialists. It will also include pointers to other bloggers and/or experts opinions that I comment or refer to.
- AOB (Any Other Business): Finally, this category will incorporate topics that do not fall to any of the previous categories. I have already created a subcategory which I named Site Anouncements.
Whatsoever, if you still prefer the old format you can always go to the site’s footer and click on “The Blog”.
Of course there are a bunch of things left to do:
- Finishe off the content’s categorization
- Solve a couple of bugs in UI (not that important to stall the launch)
- Several minor improvements
Many thanks to zuka, pupa and blade for their help during the implementation of the site and special thanks to techies.gr for their support and inspiration throughout the whole gig. If you ever need to hire someone for your web project give them a call. They own the business!
As always, I look forward to your impressions, suggestions and comments on how to make this blog better, more effective and useful to you. See you on the boards!
