On December 16th 2007, a year ago today, I took over The Lounge Advertising Network from my buddy Kevin F. Here is a quick summary of the first year:

• Grew from 10 publishers to 40
• Launched the Small Publishers Room
• Launched the first .NET focused RSS advertising offering with the RSS Room
• Launched the Podcast and Screencast rooms
• Started the year with 2 advertisers, sold out all rooms for the first time in July.

I also have a couple of new things to announce today. The first is a couple of new publishers who actually joined last month but I never blogged about. Both have joined the Small Publishers Room and I think make great additions.

Kevin Pang writes a great blog and you will quickly notice he loves creating lists.

Ken Egozi is very active in open source. He is a committer to the Castle project and helps out on the NHibernate mailing list and wiki.

The second announcement is a new room called the Open Source .NET Room. This room will be a way for open source projects and developers to make money from advertising without resorting to large banner ads or google adsense. I was hesitant to start this room because I don't want to be seen as profiting off of open source, so all the proceeds of this room are going to fund the servers that run ideavine.net. If you have an open source project and you would like to be a part of this room please email me (javery at this domain).

I also have another new room that will be launching in the new year, but I am not yet ready to make that public.

Its been an amazing year and I hope next year is even better.

-James