MyNokiaBlog reaches 1 million views, breaks 170,000 views in January and wins a Golden Retrevo Award!
With the title as long as a title could be, first I’d just like to thank you for coming to MyNokiaBlog.com and reading our posts!
- Today we’ve hit 1 Million views!
- I’ve also just realised we’ve somehow broken 170,000 views in January 2010!
- We also won a Golden Retrevo award!
I would have been very proud to make each one a separate post, but they’ve all come at once so I’ll group them all into one post!
170,000 views last month!
I’ve said it before, but although this view count is probably a drop in the ocean compared to the other blogs about Nokia, for me I’m genuinely impressed considering that 9 months ago, we’d get the same views in a month that MyNokiaBlog now gets in a day. To give another perspective, you guys helped MyNokiaBlog get more views in January 2010, than the combined whole year of 2008 + Sept to December 07.
In September last year we passed the 100,000 and that was only due to random traffic spikes. Thanks to all your support, for sticking around, reading our posts, subscribing to our RSS, retweeting our tweets and linking back to mynokiablog! 
We really wouldn’t have reached this if it wasn’t for you taking the time to visit us and read our posts ^_^
1 Million!
MyNokiaBlog started up in September 2007. There were occasional posts. A few a week. Then maybe a few a month. Until one every few months. It was just (and still is) just a hobby blog (like surprisingly a lot of the mobile/nokia bloggers). It’s one of a few other things I have to juggle whilst being a Uni Student, keeping up with extra curricular responsibilities (proactive geek, ha!) balancing it all so it doesn’t affect my social life/grades/and of course, sleepz!
In our 28 months online, 65% of our views was made in the last 5 months. We started growing after an April Fools Joke on Nokia buying Palm, which Palm picked up and tweeted. From then, I gradually started blogging on a more regular basis. A few times a month….a few times a week….to now, about once a day.
I’m in my final year (and possibly going to do post graduate training) so in a few weeks, Uni work is going to be taking more focus. Hopefully I’ll keep improving in my juggling skills if I’m to keep up with everything 
Big thanks to Hiren, aka llaadd, who joined MyNokiaBlog in December. He’s been absolutely instrumental in MyNokiaBlog’s continued growth.
Of course, huge thanks to WOMWorld/Nokia for their continued support in lending trial handsets/accessories and event invites! We wouldn’t have been able to bring out as much new content if it wasn’t for them.
Whatever I can keep doing on this blog, ultimately, the intention will always be just a platform to document and voice my feedback and the feedback of communities on Nokia activities/services/products. It’s always cool to see Nokia picking up that feedback, be it simply just a fw feature suggestion.
Golden Retrevo Award! [Mobile Gadgets Category]
I’ve never heard about this before, I thought it was SPAM. I ignored the repeat emails saying we were nominated, and that I should promote my blog to get some votes.
Congratulations, MyNokiaBlog has been nominated for the first annual Golden Retrevo Awards. These awards honor the best and brightest independent bloggers of the gadget blogosphere. Nominations come from gadget enthusiast as well as Retrevo’s own panel of gadget experts.
Today, we had apparently won a Golden Retrevo award which made me think it was definitely SPAM. I wondered when the emails asking for my bank details would come next so I can receive my prize from a wealthy Nigerian prince.
But an email from Jennifer Jacobson of Retrevo said they saw my tweet and that they weren’t spam.
“Hi Jay,
I just saw your Tweet about The Golden Retrevo Award and wanted to clarify; it is not spam, and there is nothing you need to do. It looks like one of your readers nominated your blog a while back, for the awards. This is the first year for the Golden Retrevo Awards, so you wouldn’t have heard of it before. Retrevo is one of the top three consumer electronics shopping and review sites (with CNET and PC World).
We started the awards as a way to recognize outstanding achievements in the independent gadget blogosphere. The full page with winners is here: http://bit.ly/9TSWzOPlease let me know if you have any other questions.Again, congratulations!”
Thanks again who ever nominated MyNokiaBlog and also who ever voted! Yay! We got an award! What’s even more cool is that we’re in the same list as those other properly popular blogs…especially DailyMobile! Now that is one heck of an impressive blog achievement.
I told this to Taimas when I met him in October: I remember reading his Phattrance’s profile when he first began (I think it’s actually a touch younger than MyNokiaBlog) blogging and it mentioned that he was a full time blogger. I was like “how can you blog full time? There are so many blogs out there, you can’t just start off blogging mobile news. JUSTAMP was already doing that.
Now in such a short space, Daily Mobile is now one of the most popular hubs and aggregators of mobile news, with a new iPhone sister site too. Daily Mobile, is now at about 9 million views…a month!! So to be even put in the same list for whatever reason as DailyMobile, MobileWhack, iPhoneinCanada and CellFanatic, was for me, possibly as awesome as the Retrevo award itself.
So to all you,
THANK YOU!
Category: Nokia
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Congrats Jay bro
Thanks Siraj!
Congrats Jay bro
Thanks Siraj!
Congrats and thanks for letting me post on here mate. Now I’m off for a week…lets see if we can keep increasing that number!
Cheers, congrats to you too! hehe!
Much appreciated 
Thanks for the hard work on the blog Hiren!
Congrats and thanks for letting me post on here mate. Now I’m off for a week…lets see if we can keep increasing that number!
Congrats JAY! 190.000 in jan, and 250.000 in feb!
Thanks dude! Grats to you too! I have no doubt, you’re gonna take over the world! Haha! Lol I expect to see a BBC documentary on you some day, lolz.
haha the only time youll see me on BBC is when im dressed like a NINJA ;D
Ninja blogger, stealthily taking over the interwebs! hahaha!
They never know what hit them, haha
LOL, remember us when you’re out there buying google, rofl :p
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wooow dude!!
you’re now joining the ranks of brad pitt.. george clooney.. and wow! lol
seriously though, you’re one of the guys who i have the upmost respect for, no matter if its on the private side or here with the hard work on your blog!
Congratulations dude, you’re up to something big!
Thanks Michael! Means a lot.
Who’d have thunk it that ranting online about a phone I could get to mean the SF Austrian Star that is the BeerBong/Mr Hell himself. 3 times too!
I’ve actually got a lot to thank YOU for, you kinda spurred me onto the blogging scene with the inspiring Nokian.typepad.com. Was sad when that ended, but totally thrilled by your return with ThoughtsFromHell. Man, genius Hell branding ^_^
Wow you’re famous now
! Congrats man ! Way to go !
ZOMG! Thanks CJ! ^__________^ lol.
Famous? Nah. Just lucky.
Congrats !
Love your posts
Keep them coming
Cheers for the support Varun! Will try
:D:D
Awesome, congrats mate!
Thanks Vaibhav
Congratts Jay! You deserve to be up there with the best of em
Thanks Ibrahim! Great work on your blog too – any Nokia news not on there is not worth knowing ^_^
That`s awesome, congrats!
Cheers.
Good work Jay. As I always say, My Nokia Blog is the best N900 resource known to man!
Thanks Mr B! ^_^ I wouldn’t go that far, lol. talk.maemo.org is the home of all there is N900.
N900 was the star – it was just so great to post about. There are so many exciting things that I have to share about it. With my N97, whenever anyone asked “so, is that phone any good”, my response ALWAYS lacked enthusiasm – I couldn’t find something that it did better than another phone (except maybe opening). And not just better, quite a few things it lacked in the standard of other smartphones.
N900 met those standards and then some. Totally loving the near desktop experience like browser, super fast, smooth OS with no lag (it kills me every time I pick up N97 and see lags still with new firmware) intense multitasking, fantastic divx playback, and brilliantly customizable homescreen, the ability for great looking 3D games (though we only really have one)….so many other things! …ahh.
The whole N900/Maemo 5 experience is just so much greater than the sum of the feature lists. Yes there’s room for improvement, as in everything, but not so that in interferes with enjoying its use (unlike S60V5, man that double tap to open folders suck!). Anywhoo…rant over.
Thanks again James ^_^
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