Monday, December 5, 2011

Windows Phone Sites Around the World

I recently released an update of my Windows Phone app Pictures Lab which brings some nice new features like effect combination, two Christmas and a New Year frame and most importantly 7 new languages. Pictures Lab 4.0 now supports 9 languages: English, German, Japanese, Russian, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese. This was made possible by a group of awesome native-speaking translators: Alan Mendelevich, Takeshi Miyauchi, David Salazar, Joost van Schaik, Johan Peeters, Paolo Barone, Simone Chiaretta, Pedro Lamas and Quentin Calvez.


I also asked my translators if they know any local Windows Phone news sites / blogs. Below is a list of international and regional Windows Phone news sites we collected. Note, that those are primarily consumer sites read by consumers and not only for developers. This list could be useful if you plan to release a localized version of your app and want to promote it a bit. Most sites have a "Tip Us" or contact form and are mostly happy about new content to write posts about.

Forget this list! 
Head over to @ailon's awesome dedicated site: http://windowsphonesites.com

English
German
Russian
Japanese
Dutch
Spanish
Portuguese (Brazilian)
Italian
French
Danish

If you know more sites, please leave a comment and I'll update the list.

Telerik published a nice whitepaper with more resources about app promotion.

18 comments:

  1. Would be glad to see my blog there: msicc.net
    Not only Windows Phone but all Microsoft-related stuff :-)

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  2. http://www.winrumors.com/

    www.windowsphonerocks.com

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  3. Danish:
    - http://www.windowsphonefan.dk/

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  4. winrumors is a Microsoft news site and doesn't post any Windows Phone app reviews, etc,..

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  5. You missed http://windowsphonegeek.com

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  6. http://windowsphonegeek.com

    It is the leading web site for Windows Phone Development: high quality development articles, tutorials, source code, examples, tips, resources, demo videos, latest development news and more.

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  7. The main Portuguese (Portugal) Windows Phone user forum:

    http://www.pocketpt.net

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  8. Dutch : http://www.pocketinfo.nl

    :) Regards jApi NL

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  9. One more English website: http://wp7.apphab.com

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  10. english:

    www.mykindofphone.com
    http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/
    www.windowsphonemetro.com
    www.tweetwp7.com ->site to request apps for wp7

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  11. Windows Phone News, Apps, and Reviews:

    http://www.windowsphonenetwork.com

    (English)

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  12. You should head over to http://windowsphonesites.com/ and your sites there now. :)

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  13. Kindly add http://withwindows.com as well..It is dedicated to provide all the Windows Phone related news, app tutorials etc.

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  14. Hi there,
    http://www.smartphone7.de (german)

    Thanks :)

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