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Adobe Air Announces 100 Million Downloads. Thanks Twitter

by Jason Wilk on February 4, 2009

  • Today at Adobe MAX in Japan, Adobe announced that AIR has been installed over 100 million times. Also, as of December, Flash Player 10 was installed on 55% of computers worldwide. Flash Player 10 is breaking all previous adoption rate records for any Flash Player, and Adobe projects that it will have greater than 80% penetration by the second quarter of 2009.
  • The company attributes a vast majority of the AIR downloads to popular social applications stemming from Twitter, such as TweetDeck and Twirhl. Here are the top 5 applications mentioned @ the event.


Here are other must-read Adobe articles:

Flash Coming To The iPhone: Says Adobe

Best and Worst Places To Work In 200. Adobe In The Top 5

Microsoft Goes To Battle With Adobe

Photo-chop: Adobe Lays Off 600

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Amazon Kindle 2 Coming February 9th

by Jason Wilk on January 27, 2009

  • Amazon is expected to announce the new Kindle 2 @ their February 9th press conference. The event will be at the Morgan Library & Museum.  It is described as being what the iPod Touch was to the original 1st gen iPod.

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Join TinyComb @ Startonomics

by Jason Wilk on January 26, 2009

  • What’s Startonomics? It’s a one-day workshop designed by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs on how to create simple, actionable metrics; and how to use them to make better product and marketing decisions for long-term growth and startup success. You cannot miss the all-star lineup at the event set to begin February 6th @ 9am. I will be there covering the event all day, be sure to come and say hello if you are attending. Grab the last few tickets available here. Here is a taste of who is set to come:

Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media

Richard Rosenblatt

A serial entrepreneur and Internet visionary, Richard co-founded Demand
Media in May 2006 to become the leading distributed social media company.
Richard built, operated and sold numerous Internet media companies with a
combined value of over $1.3 billion. He served as CEO of Intermix Media,
Inc., and Chairman of Myspace.com, during which time the public market
capitalization grew from $70 million to over $650 million, until acquired by
News Corporation. Richard previously founded then sold iMALL, one of the
first Internet companies to recognize the power of user-generated content,
to Excite@Home for $565 million. Richard is a Southern California native,
with a BA from UCLA and JD from USC Law School.

  • 1:30 – 2:00 - Afternoon Keynote Address (Keynote)

David O. Sacks – Yammer

David O. Sacks

David O. Sacks is the Founder and CEO of Yammer, Inc., a communications tool
for enterprises. Yammer.com launched at the TechCrunch 50 conference in
September 2008 and won Best In Show. Yammer was originally developed at
Geni, Inc., a startup founded by David in June 2006. Geni.com is creating a
family tree of the whole world, enabling millions of family members to
connect, share, and preserve their lives. Previously, David was the COO of
PayPal, helping to lead the company to a successful IPO and $1.5 billion
sale to eBay. He also produced the movie “Thank You For Smoking” for which
he was nominated for a Golden Globe.

  • 9:00 – 9:30 - Morning Keynote Address (Keynote)

Peter Pham – BillShrink

Peter Pham

Peter is CEO of BillShrink. He was previously VP Business Development & employee #5 at Photobucket.com, and was responsible for customer acquisition, strategic partnerships, and corporate development. Photobucket was acquired in 2007 by Fox Interactive Media, a division of News Corporation. When Peter left in 2008, Photobucket had grown to over 61M users making it the #1 photo sharing site and the 38th most visited site in the US. Prior to Photobucket, he was involved in multiple enterprise startups in areas such as mid-range server computing, software as a service, solid state storage, and mobilization of enterprise software. Peter has held multiple roles including sales, marketing, reseller channel development, product, and strategy. He holds a BS in Biological Sciences with a minor in Business Management from UC Irvine.

  • 3:30 – 4:00 - Pitching & Packaging for Partnerships: How to Land Amazing Deals & Tell If They’re Working (Speaker)

Frank Addante – Rubicon Project

Frank Addante

Frank Addante, a serial entrepreneur, has a successful entrepreneurial track record. The Rubicon Project is Frank’s 6th company. Before the age of 30, Frank started 5 companies, resulting in 1 IPO, 2 acquisitions, 1 failure (we call that one “a learning experience”) and his last venture, StrongMail Systems. Addante lead StrongMail from inception, to an initial cash-flow positive business, to becoming the market leader in less than 4 years, raising over $30 million in venture capital.

  • 4:30 – 5:00 - The A-Team: The Dynamics of Olympic Startups (Speaker)

Neil Patel – ACS

Neil Patel

Neil Patel is the co-founder of 3 Internet companies: ACS, Crazy Egg, and KISSmetrics. Through these 3 companies he has helped large corporations such as AOL, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard and Viacom make more money from the web. By the age of 21 not only was Neil named a top 100 blogger by Technorati, but he was also one of the top influencers on the web according to the Wall Street Journal.

  • 12:00 – 12:30 - Finding Users: The Metrics of SEO for Customer Acquisition (Speaker)

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Confirmed: Yahoo Picks A New CEO

by Jason Wilk on January 13, 2009

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  • According to BoomTown and several sources familiar with Yahoo (YHOO), Carol Bartz (Now Confirmed) is hot on the radar to replace Co-founder Jerry Yang. Bartz is a longtime and high-profile Silicon Valley executive who presided over huge success at design technology giant, Autodesk (ADSK), until stepping down in April of 2006 to sit as a chairman. During her time there, net revenues increased from $285 million to more than $534 million.
  • Other notches on her Resume include 10 years as vice president at Sun Microsystems(JAVA). She has also held product line and sales management positions at other high-tech companies; she is also an expert in computer science.
  • Here’s how the dots connect. Bartz currently sits on the boards of Intel (INTC), Cisco Systems (CSCO), NetApp (NTAP), and the Foundation for the National Medals of Science and Technology. Jerry Yang is also on the board of Cisco, and Yahoo President Sue Decker is on Intel’s.
  • Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock promised investors a new leader would be in place soon and that they are on finally decisions to go with an internal or external for the head position. Who’s in the running? John Chapple, former Nextel CEO, Maggie Wilderotter, a former Microsoft exec, Jonathan Miller, former AOL CEO.
  • One of my 7 predications of 2009 was that a new Yahoo CEO would get an offer back from Microsoft closer to the original $33 deal. I wouldn’t mind seeing Bartz in charge of this goal: she is a seasoned CEO of successfully running public companies, understands computer technology from the ground up, and has dealt with mergers and acquisitions before.
  • In any event, the new Yahoo CEO will have a big task at large, restoring company morale after Jerry.

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Apple Having Problems In France

by Jason Wilk on December 17, 2008

  • It’s no secret anymore, the iPhone is popular (who knew?). It is so popular that it has been entirely strange to me that competitive carriers unable to strike a deal with Apple to sell the iPhone haven’t taken stronger action to do so. Well, that changes today. 
  • On September 18th, France’s third largest mobile operator Bouygues Telecom filed a complaint with the regulator, arguing the deal between Apple and its larger rival, violates local freedom of competition and pricing laws. Today, that ruling was passed, forcing Apple to cease its exclusive relationship with France Telecom’s Orange carrier.  The French competition counsel ruled that Apple must open up the phone to other French carriers and French Telecom is further prohibited from signing any further exclusive deals with Apple in the event they release a new phone. 
  • The French Competion Counsel said:

    Apple’s exclusive arrangement with Orange poses a serious and immediate threat to competition in the wireless sector and causes consumers to incur hefty and unjust fees should they attempt to switch providers. (A copy of the 48 page ruling can be seen here [PDF] in French.)

  • France Telecom plans to appeal the issue, but it is likely that they won’t be able to get the decision turned around. This is a big win for consumers who should have the right to use whatever device they want with any carrier they choose. We will see how the carriers in the US who want to carry the iPhone react to the issue. Moreover, how will this ruling bleed over into neighboring European countries and extend into Apple’s upcoming deal with China to carry the phone in early 09′?

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