iPad Companies ?

iPhone is a done deal for them. Now it's time for iPad apps and development

Catalogue of those companies who have potential to become players in iPad development & production ( in a no particular order ). It took me some time to find them all and put them on the list ;) App Gems.


NewToy Inc.
SourceBits
Iconfactory
Tapulous
Freeverse
Acceleroto
Appigo
IllusionLabs
NgMoco
Cultured Code
Inchoo
Ideal Binary
Bjango
InfiniteLabs
Firemint
PopCap Games
Codify.se
TapBots
StoneDesign
Simplifymedia
Stormy Productions
Blackdot
Atebits
Lextech
Gameloft
Ambrosia Software
MobileAge
Hudson Soft
FullPower Technologies
Lexcycle
Digital Chocolate
Subatomic Studios
Debacle Software
Avatron Software
NetFrames
FluentMobile
StandAlone Inc.
RogueSheep
Intua.net
Brushes
Secret Exit
Code Walrus
Jirbo Inc.
Accuterra
I-Luv.com
OpenDoor Networks
QuickOffice Inc.
Felix Lamouroux
Rudrajit Samanta ( iWant)
EarthComber
Loopt
PocketPixels
Acrossair
Weblooks CH
Abstrakt team
Scivone
Trilibis Mobile
Tapparatus
FinarX
ThirtyNine Inc.
IconApps
WorldTop7
AuroraFeint
Cobra Mobile
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Magazines:
Number 17
RGA
Jason Santa Maria
Milton Glaser
Nick Bilton
Steven Heller

Conference: OnMedia 2010. - New York City

OnMedia NYC is where cutting-edge technology CEOs from the back streets of Silicon Valley meet the global advertising and media establishment.
This two-and-a-half-day executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on which forces are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in the marketing, branding, advertising, and public relations industries.

Who Attends

Seven hundred technology, media and advertising CEOs, business development officers, media buyers, venture-capital and private-equity investors, and leading members of the press and blogging community will attend OnMedia. More than 20,000 webcast viewers from more than 100 countries will also tune in and interact with the program. Executives attend OnMedia to identify and debate emerging trends, build high-level relationships, and create new business opportunities.

OnMedia 2010 Speaker Line-up

• Mark Cuban, Chairman, HDNet & Owner, Dallas Mavericks
• Walt Frazier, Basketball Hall of Fame Inductee & Commentator, MSG
• Jon Miller, Chief Digital Officer, News Corporation
• Jim Lanzone, CEO, Clicker
• Avner Ronen, CEO, Boxee
• Peter Hirshberg, Co-founder & Chairman, The Conversation Group
• Fred Graver, Founder of iLarious & Award-winning TV Writer
• Jay MacDonald, Partner, DeSilva + Phillips
• Ryan Steelberg, CEO, Brand Affinity Technologies
• Craig Roah, Founder & COO, Rubicon Project
• Paul Palmieri, CEO, Millennial Media
• Quincy Smith, Partner, Code Advisors
• Dave Morgan, CEO, Simulmedia
• Tim Cadogan, CEO, OpenX
• Jessica Vascellaro, Reporter, Wall Street Journal
• Greg Coleman, President & Chief Revenue Officer, Huffington Post
• Steven Kydd, Executive Vice President, Demand Media
• Gilbert Fuchsberg, President, Skiff
• Ken Krick, Partner, KPMG
• Iain Scholnick, CEO, Imagespan
• Sam Angus, Partner, Fenwick & West
• Bob Davis, General Partner, Highland Capital Partners
• Alan Patricof, Founder & Managing Director, Greycroft Partners
• Michael Greeley, General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners
• Andy Goldfarb, Executive Managing Director, Globespan Capital Partners
• David Kirkpatrick, Senior Editor, Internet & Technology, Fortune
• Eric Wheeler, CEO, 33Across
• Tom Phillips, CEO, Media6Degrees
• Jessica Schell, SVP, NBC Universal
• Dan Rose, VP Business Development & Monetization, Facebook
• Jay Hallberg, CEO, Spiceworks
• Drew Stein, COO, IMO Entertainment
• Brian O'Kelley, CEO, AppNexus
• Lexi Reese, Director Content Network, Google
• Rajeev Goel, CEO, PubMatic
• Amiad Solomon, CEO, Peer39
• Mike Monahan, Partner, KPMG
• David Pakman, Partner, Venrock
• Ian Sigalow, Principal, Greycroft Partners
• Warren Lee, Venture Partner, Canaan Partners
• Amish Jani, Managing Director, FirstMark Capital
• Bo Yaghmaie Partner, Cooley Godward Kronish
• Jai Haissman, CEO, Affective Interfaces
• Konrad Feldman, CEO, Quantcast
• Steve Goldman, CEO, Ace Metrix
• Eric Best, CEO, Mercent
• Joe Zawadzki, CEO, MediaMath
• Jon Carson, CEO, BiddingForGood.com
• Brian Hughes, Partner, KPMG
• Carol Cone, Chairman & Founder, Cone
• Joe Marchese, President & Founder, SocialVibe
• Atul Bagga, VP, ThinkEquity
• Nir Eyal, CEO, AdNectar
• Kevin Xu, COO, IGG
• Mitch Davis, CEO, Live Gamer
• Alex St. John, President & CTO, hi5
• Peter Kafka, Senior Editor, All Things Digital, Wall Street Journal
• Bill Rusitzky, Head Strategic Alliances Group, Adobe
• Bryan Perez, SVP & GM of Digital, NBA
• Jason Glickman, CEO, Tremor Media
• Joy Marcus, U.S. Head, DailyMotion
• Ron Yekutiel, CEO, Kaltura
• Doug Scott, President, OgilvyEntertainment
• Michael Siegenthaler, Director, MSN Branded Entertainment & Experiences Team, Microsoft
• Jordan Levin, CEO, Generate
• Lisa Stone, CEO, BlogHer
• Janet Cullum, Partner, Cooley Godward Kronish
• Sergio Monsalve, Principal, Norwest Venture Partners
• Richard de Silva, General Partner, Highland Capital Partners
• Gerry Campbell, CEO, Collecta
• Sean Morgan, CEO, Critical Media
• Mike Kwatinetz, General Partner, Azure Capital
• Victor Boyajian, Global Chair, Sonnenschein Venture Technology Group
• Rick Heitzmann, Managing Director, FirstMark Capital
• Satya Patel, Partner, Battery Ventures
• Woody Benson, Partner, Prism VentureWorks
• George John, CEO, RocketFuel
• Greg Stuart, Former CEO, IAB
• Calvin Lui, CEO, Tumri
• Shiv Singh, VP, Razorfish
• Adam Oliveri, MD, Private Company Market, SecondMarket
• Mark Stevens, Partner, Fenwick & West
• Rachel Lam, SVP, Time Warner Ventures
• Joe Josephson, Partner, Union Square Advisors
• John Gardner, Partner, Nokia Growth Partners
• David Horowitz, Managing Director, Comcast Interactive Capital
• Ian Schafer, CEO, Deep Focus & Kristin Ganong, VP, Diageo
• Max Herrnstein, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
• Michael Katz, President & Founder, InterCLICK
• Carl Fremont, EVP & Global Media Director, Digitas
• Michael Barrett, CEO, AdMeld
• Matt Seiler, Global CEO, Universal McCann
• Prashant Nedungadi, CEO, IM Shopping
• Siva Kumar, CEO, TheFind
• Stefan Weitz, Director Bing Search Team, Microsoft
• June Bower, VP Marketing, Cisco
• Jeff Litvack, GM, Mobile & Emerging Products, Associated Press
• Michael Moroney, SVP Digital, TBA Global
• Dave Courtney, CEO, JiWire
• Frank Barbieri, CEO, Transpera
• Tolman Geffs, Managing Director, JEGI
• Jon Hsu, CEO, 24/7 RealMedia & Head B3, WPP
• Omar Tawakol, CEO, BlueKai
• Chad Little, CEO, FetchBack
• Peder Magee, Senior Attorney, Division of Privacy & Identity Protection, FTC
• Jeff Hirsch, CEO, Audience Science

CEO Showcases

• Moshe Vaknin, CEO, Todacell
• Phil Fernandez, CEO, Marketo
• George John, CEO, Rocket Fuel
• Scott Silk, CEO, SeeWhy
• Rahul Sonad, CEO, Geodelic
• Jeff Hirsch, CEO, AudienceScience
• Jaan Janes, CEO, Pulse360
• Oded Itzhak, CEO, AdSide
• Ben Kartzman, CEO, Spongecell
• Kirby Winfield, CRO, AdXpose
• Calvin Lui, CEO, Tumri
• Roger Wood, CEO, OrcaOne
• Jay Kulkarni, CEO, Theorem
• Rajeev Goel, CEO, PubMatic
• Pamela Springer, CEO, Manta Media
• Michael McNabb, CEO, Voyage.tv
• Boris Fridman, CEO, Crisp Wireless
• Michael Lee, CEO, Thoora
• Eric Conn, CEO, Gloto
• Walter Doyle, CEO, uLocate Communications
• Siva Kumar, CEO, TheFind
• George Garrick, CEO, OfferPal Media
• Chris Boone, CEO, Visuvi
• John Federman, CEO, Searchandise Commerce
• Al McGowan, CEO, Redlasso
• Marc Shedroff, VP Partnerships, Cooliris
• John Straw, CEO, Linkdex
• Mark Watkins, CEO, Goby
• Kimbal Musk, CEO, OneRiot
• Christine Marie, CEO,Gingerbread Media
• Bettina Bennett, CEO, WhichBox Media
• Steven Rosenbaum, CEO, Magnify.net
• Dave Otten, CEO, LongTail Video
• Alex Mashinsky, CEO, GroundLink

Flight Zurich - New York

Getting out of elite circles of Davos.

Sick feeling. Too much chocolate :)

Davos 2010.

Powerbrokers networking

World Economic Forum in Davos is under way.
Travel from Zurich to Davos , with the train, lasts more than 2 hours.

What to look at WEF ?
Human connection.

How to follow the conference ?

Matthias Lüfkens, Associate Director, Media, Tel.: +41 (0)79 514 4781 – matthias.luefkens@weforum.org, @luefkens

• Over 250 participants will actively tweet from the meeting http://twitter.com/davos
• Facebook users to participate in quick polls http://facebook.com/worldeconomicforum
• MySpace citizen reporter to report from Davos on http://myspace.com/myspacejournal
• YouTube community to put questions to world leaders at http://youtube.com/davos
• More about the Forum’s social media activities: http://www.weforum.org/socialmedia

Davos, Switzerland, 25 January 2010 – The World Economic Forum is once again making full use of the major social media platforms at the upcoming Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland giving unprecedented access to the wider public. The general public can actively participate in a number of sessions through video submissions, blog comments, tweets and quick polls.

Twitter
We will live tweet the most salient quotes from the key sessions on the Forum Twitter account (http://twitter.com/Davos) which now boasts over 1.5 million followers. Over 250 participants are on Twitter including Queen Rania of Jordan, Bill Gates, Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway, and Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, President of Mongolia. You can follow their tweets by subscribing to the official Twitter list at http://twitter.com/Davos/WEF2010. For news junkies, there is a specific list of media organizations and journalists covering the meeting at http://twitter.com/Davos/WEFMedia. The official hashtag of the meeting is #WEF. The short URL to the Forum’s meeting website is http://tr.im/Davos10. To show your support for the Forum why not put a Twibbon on your Twitter avatar at http://twibbon.com/join/Davos.

The Forum will also microblog in Chinese on Sina.com at http://t.sina.com.cn/davos. And finally, you can get all the feeds by subscribing to the Forum on FriendFeed http://friendfeed.com/worldeconomicforum.

Blogging
Key sessions will also be blogged on the Forum’s blog at http://www.forumblog.org. All blog posts about the Forum are aggregated in the Davos Conversation http://www.davosconversation.org on Netvibes. The programme of the Open Forum is on the blog at http://www.forumblog.org/openforum and you can send comments which the moderators will integrate in their respective panels.

Facebook
The Forum recently released a report on Faith in the Global Agenda based in large part on polls conducted on Facebook with over 130.000 respondents. In selected sessions in the Annual Meeting in Davos, we will once again tap into the collective wisdom of the onlinrowd through these “pulses” on Facebook. The pulses allow us to capture the opinion of several thousand Facebook users in a matter of minutes. Their views will be fed back into the panel discussion at specific sessions. If you are on Facebook why not become a fan of the Forum at http://facebook.com/worldeconomicforum.

MySpace
Sloane Berrent has won the MySpaceJournal competition organized by MySpace in partnership with the Wall Street Journal. The 30 year old from California will report from Davos for the global MySpace community. Watch her winning video entry below:

If you have a MySpace page why not befriend the World Economic Forum on MySpace http://www.myspace.com/worldeconomicforum. The Forum recently opened a network on Ning and will be cross posting some information there. If you are on LinkedIn, join the Annual Meeting group on LinkedIn.

YouTube
Julia Lalla-Maharajh is the winner of the Davos Debates 2010 on YouTube. Julia brings her cause, the fight against female genital mutilation, onto the agenda of the Annual Meeting where she will discuss the issue in a special session with Ann Veneman, Executive Director of UNICEF, New York, and Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist on Saturday 30 January from 15.30 to 16.45 (CET). You can participate in the session by submitting your question.

The World Economic Forum will explore the growing influence of social networks in a workshop on Wednesday 27 January from 09.00 to 11.00. The discussion is moderated by Loïc Le Meur, Founder of Seesmic and will include, among others, Gina Bianchini, Chief Executive Officer, Ning; George Colony, Chief Executive Officer, Forrester Research; Reid Hoffman, Founder, LinkedIn; Owen Van Natta, Chief Executive Officer, MySpace.com; and Evan Williams, Chief Executive Officer, Twitter. Given the topic of the workshop it was natural to open it to input from the different social networks and to hear from the general public on the question: “How are social networks are changing society?”

As in the past several years, YouTube has set up a video corner at the Congress Centre where we invite participants to answer your questions. Submit your question to world leaders at http://youtube.com/davos.

Live webcasts
All plenary sessions will be webcast on the website of the World Economic Forum and live-streamed on our Livestream channel. The videos will also be available in full HD quality from our website and can be watched on demand on the Forum’s YouTube channel. The webcast programme of the Annual Meeting 2010 is here.

All press conferences will also be live-streamed on Livestream allowing anyone online to field questions directly to the panellists through Twitter and Facebook.

Flickr
The best pictures taken at the Annual Meeting will be made available free of charge under the creative commons licence (CC-BY-SA) on Flickr. The full set of photographs from the Annual Meeting is also available on Swiss-Image.ch.

Notes to Editors
More information about the Annual Meeting 2010 at http://www.weforum.org/annualmeeting
Programme of the Annual Meeting at http://www.weforum.org/annualmeeting/programme
Connect with the Forum on other social networks http://www.weforum.org/socialmedia
Press Releases at http://www.weforum.org/pressreleases
For updates about the activities of the World Economic Forum, subscribe to RSS feed

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The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging leaders in partnerships to shape global, regional and industry agendas.

Incorporated as a foundation in 1971, and based in Geneva, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum is impartial and not-for-profit; it is tied to no political, partisan or national interests (http://www.weforum.org).

Latest:

Social Gaming Companies

Catalogue. Random list.

Zynga
PlayFish
PopCap Games
Playdome
6waves
Crowdstar
Digital Chocolate
Geewa
KingsIsle
GamerDNA
Challenge Games
Social Game Universe
Kongregate
YoYo Games
Zapak


Roles:
- Business development
- Community Manager
- Project manager
- Quality assurance
- PR specialist

Invite from Voddler Sweden AB

I've got one today.

Voddler is commercial online 'movies' and 'TV show' video on demand streaming entertainment service and accompanying software application with media player software used to distribute full-length movies to any computer, using a patented hybrid peer-to-peer TV technology.

The service and its interactive media player software allow registered users to search and stream movies and TV shows.[1][2]

We are proud to welcome you to Voddler - the magical world of movies.

Voddler is a unique, legal and exciting new movie experience. Here you will have access to a whole world of movies with instant access and high quality in the comfort of your own home. Voddler is only available by invitation at this stage and you are invited to enjoy movies, and tv-series as they are added to our repertoire.

All you need to do is register an account, following the link below, and download Voddler Client on our website.

Next: Switzerland

iPad done deal. Back to Europe.

Flight : San Francisco - Zurich. Heading to Davos meeting.
Not sure about the train from Zurich :")

Need to reflect more about DLD conference in Munich. There was a lot of mumbo jumbo talk. Boring.

Next Event: World Economic Forum
Days: 27 - 31 January 2010.

January. Travel closed.

Apple Event For iPad

Apple iPad Remakes Digital Books And Magazines - Music Albums Too

General rehersal for January 27th ;))

Apple iPad is here ( now is 27th , 10.20 AM Pacific Time ).
iPad creates innovative experience.

- new Apple tablet computer design form
- Books, textbooks, ebooks, digital books, video books production for iPad
- new way of releasing and marketing music albums
- digital books with video, audio, podcasting, web reference, social media, real time web, augmented reality
- revolution in education
- solution : paying for digital content
- Apple and publishers partnerships
- movies studios and Apple - partnership
- vook innovation has it all:

WHAT IS A VOOK?

A vook is a new innovation in reading that blends a well-written book, high-quality video and the power of the Internet into a single, complete story.

You can read your book, watch videos that enhance the story and connect with authors and your friends through social media all on one screen, without switching between platforms.

Vooks are available in two formats: As a web-based application you can read on your computer and a mobile application for reading on the go. With the web-based application you don't have to download programs or install software. Just open your favorite browser and start reading and watching in an exciting new way. You can also download and install the mobile applications through the Apple iTunes store and sync them with your Apple mobile device.

- ''ocean of knowledge''
- media mashups
- high definition movies
- electronic publishing revolution
- future of publishing


Maybe I am wrong. Time will tell. If Apple doesn't do it then who will ?

Oh, I bought some iPad domain names today ;))

See you on 27th this Month.

Munich: DLD Conference 2010.

Off to Munich.

...starting January 24th - 26th.

Here's a short video.
More in one simple picture.

DLD (Digital - Life - Design) is a three-day experience gathering 800 entrepreneurs, investors, philantropists, scientists, artists and creative minds from all over the world. With global diversity in attendees and an interdisciplinary perspective of digital, media, design, art, science, brands, consumers and society, the conference is known as the European forum for the "creative class".

January 2010.

Travel itinerary:

31.12.2009. - 03.01.2010. Vienna - waiting New Year
04.01.2010. - 10.01.2010. Flight to Las Vegas - CES 2010 conference

CES 2010 keynotes

First week of 2010. is dedicated to CES 2010 conference. Flight to Las Vegas and see video from significant keynotes.Paul Otellini - INTEL, Steve Ballmer- MICROSOFT.

Mobile Sites Getting Worse

New findings from Yankee Group offer further evidence that "mobile Internet" remains an oxymoron. Of the 27 large mobile sites the firm evaluated, the average score was 52 out of 100 -- a failing grade and actually two points lower than last year's average.

Sites were judged on criteria including how well they adapt to different devices and networks as well as design and usability.

The report highlights a handful of mobile that actually earned passing grades across three categories: news, sports and search. Both Yahoo News and Google News earned top honors with scores of 73 by not overwhelming users with information and tailoring content to the screens of specific devices.

MLB.com was tops in sports with a score of 71, and also spotlighted for its device detection and ability to tailor content to fit mobile screens. Rivals.com (58) and ESPN.com (57) ranked second and third.

In search, Google edged out Yahoo (81 to 76) with a clean user interface, device detection and location-awareness capability. Google's search score is the highest Yankee has awarded to any mobile site so far and counts as a gold star in this group.

The analysis also looked at the sites of mobile carriers. Sprint was the best of a bad lot, winning the category with a whopping score of 53. Verizon Wireless was runner up with a 34 and T-Mobile and AT&T each came away with a 12 for basically having useless sites. Well done.

Yankee points out the carriers have separate mobile sites reserved for subscribers. "By not having a mobile Web presence, carriers are saying they don't want to serve mobile users unless they can sign up for service first," states the report.

On the consumer side, the report found 31% of phone owners are now accessing the mobile once a month, with news, search and weather the most popular categories. Given the quality of mobile sites, nearly one-third looks like a high proportion.

Chat Panel About Startup Financing

MiFi and 3G router for on-the-go

Wi-Fi Everywhere And In Your Pocket

Interesting device is on the market ( or will be ) in the US and the UK. Verizon Wireless launched ( Sprint too ) Mifi 2200 card for personal and mobile hotspots, and 3 UK is doing the same in the UK.
The need certanly exist. You can connect up to 5 devices to your personal mobile broadband network.
This brings another good point in the connectivity puzzle. As Reuter's editor explains in a short video:



Related news and blog articles:
The Telegraph about MiFi journalism

EWeek about MiFi

Working from the pub with MiFi

QR code in the sand

Via Picturephoning

Free , really free

Watch out, it's a bit hyped right now :)

Extremely good review of Chris Anderson's new book called ''Free''.
Chris might be pinpointing some extreme trends in the digital marketplace. I just downloaded free audio version, although there's a book at Amazon.

Apple and RIM are profit cows

5 % market makes total of 58 % operating profits

Wall Street Journal: Smart indeed

The two accounted for only 3% of all cellphones sold in the world last year but 35% of operating profits, according to Deutsche Bank analyst Brian Modoff. The disparity will become even starker this year when, he estimates, the two will take 5% of the market in unit terms but 58% of total operating profits.

One Palm Pre, 2K photos

Thomas Lopez (@tmomaslomez) has been busy with his Pre. Last night he tweeted "My fav photo from our trip to SF http://post.ly/1Gav nearly 2k more taken with my Pre."

Check his photo gallery and you'll find he's been busy -- and has been producing some high quality as well as huge quantity.

Palm Pre in Europe

New message via Facebook

Palm Pre will arrive in the UK, Ireland, Germany and Spain on local Telefónica networks in those countries. Scheduled to be available in time for the holidays, Pre will be offered in the UK, Ireland and Germany on Telefónica's O2 network, and in Spain on Telefónica's Movistar network. You can read more about the announcement here.

Customers who would like to register to receive additional information about Palm Pre and be notified when it's available can register at:

* UK and Ireland: http://www.palm.com/uk-pre-notify
* Germany: http://www.palm.com/de-pre-notify
* Spain: http://www.palm.com/es-pre-notify

Jon Zilber