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Fredric is a web developer based in Chicago who hopes to one day start a foundation to support young, Black males in programming and computer science.

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Yay! YBPGuide turns 2!

October 15th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

What started out as a simple idea on vacation in Miami, this blog has officially made it to two years! Whew, what a ride our little ybpguide.com has gone through.

YBPGuide.com

I’m happy to report the following growth of the site:
23 contributors and authors
735 posts (including this one)
2,662 comments
54 categories
225 tags

620+ daily subscribers via feedburner
1100+ pageviews per day
Winner of the 2008 Black Weblog Award for Best Business Blog (Popular Vote)

Notable Upgrades over the past year:
YBP Redesign, Illustration, and Brand
YBP Peer Spotlight Interview Series
YBP on Twitter
Disqus Comment Integration

Thanks to everyone who has continued to support us and we look forward to another great year!

There Are 3 Responses So Far. »

  1. Comment by The Urban Scientist on 16 October 2008:

    Happy Anniversary.

  2. Comment by Gina on 16 October 2008:

    Congrats! You have been such a help over your past two years. Now that I see you are using DISQUS I am going to have to add it to WAOD since you know what you are doing!

  3. Comment by Manchild on 6 November 2008:

    Congratulations YBP Guide!

    I applaud you and celebrate you.

    Manchild