InfoQ launched June 8 2006. InfoQ's primary mission is to contribute to the evolution of the communities we serve. InfoQ's main differentiators/innovations include:

Personalization: InfoQ serves multiple communities while allowing users to select which communities they are interested in, and then personalize even further by excluding specific subtopics/tags. User's personalization settings will then determine what they see on the homepage, and what they will get in their personalized RSS feed, personalized weekly newsletter, etc.

Unique and Exclusive Content: InfoQ publishes daily news written by domain experts, articles, video interviews, video conference presentations selected from major industry conferences, technical case studies, and books.

Innovative technology, user friendly design: InfoQ was designed with the end user in mind, to minimize needless clicks and maximize the user experience with the latest technologies such as AJAX which has been used heavily on the site in areas such as registration, discussion threading, and personalization. InfoQ is not just a site about software development, it is a showcase of what's possible in web development.

Finally, a blog site that practices what it preaches. We see a lot of sarcasm and derision in blogs, especially tech blogs. However, InfoQ is one of the only ones to take all of the criticisms of technical advancements, find solutions, and then display them in their own blog.

The IT and development team at Infoq is ten strong, while their editorial team has almost forty contributing writers. They average over 300,000 unique visitors a month, proving that even extremely subject-specialized blogs have readerships that are both broad, and loyal. The basis of the site's personalization is the community categories, which are: Java, .net, Ruby, SOA, Agile and Architecture.

One of the most endearing features of the 'community' setup is the way that posts are catalogued, making InfoQ easily search-able and a great, informative resource. For example, the Java community posts are organized into articles, interviews, news items, presentations and books. Content is also comprehensive - with a large editorial staff, extensive reporting on trends within the communities is possible. A highly recommended blog for IT personnel and programmers.