Scott Michaels, Atimi Vice President

Twitter: @atimiscott

It is no suprise that I will be at WWDC again this year, and as usual the time books up pretty fast. If you are interested in meeting while there, contact me soon and we can set up a time.

Scott Michaels, Atimi Vice President

Twitter: @atimiscott

At the end of last year, Atimi and TrialPay worked together on solutions within the App space for the major mobile platforms, specifically those with an App store or a variant thereof.

As we move forward in 2009 with the Ovi store,  App World and of course the ever changing App Store having a mechanism for other payment methods is only going to become more of the retail side story to getting apps out to the end users and retain the monetization that so many lack or are unable to achive.

I am looking forward to seeing these methods develop as we all need more in the arsenal.

Scott Michaels, Atimi Vice President

Twitter: @atimiscott

I will be a panel speaker at ToyCon for the Sandbox Summit this year and really looking forward to it. It is May the 8th, and I will be there for the entire event if you are interested in meeting up. Having worked with Sesame Workshop on the iRead project - the nature of making mobile apps for the very young is obviously not the same as your more traditional mobile market. Recently Dan Frakes from Macworld was interviewed about using the iPhone with his daughter, and it’s a good read.

So if you find yourself in Phoenix next week, get in touch with me and we can talk about your own project.

Scott Michaels, Atimi Vice President

Twitter: @atimiscott

Scott Michaels and Sean Howe from Atimi will both be at NAB this week in Las Vegas, if you would like to book a meeting with either of us during this time just drop us a line and we will be happy to discuss moving your application over to the Mac, or supporting iPhone and Blackberry with your existing applications.

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The Atimi developed application for PressOK Entertainment hit the store today, and it makes an excellent case study for porting applications from other platforms to the iPhone and iPod Touch.

The game, Gin Rummy Deluxe is a port of the successful game that was launched on Verizon phones and the port to the iPhone presented the same kind of challenges you would see from any game port. To hear the details of how this all went down, why don’t you join me at iDev 360

I am doing 2 slots at this years conference, one on development and one on marketing so I hope to see you there. Do feel free to just come up and start talking, I am very open to talking to everyone at the event. The more that your own app succeeds, the more we all do!

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Atimi is happy to announce the app we developed for NBC Universal for the show Access Hollywood will be available soon. We will post more details as soon as it’s approved and on the store, but this video shot at CES where it was announced is a great place to start!

Scott Michaels, Atimi Vice President

I will be at Macworld 2009 from Monday through Friday, and am taking meetings during that period. If you would like to meet up in person do contact me to set up a time. Look forward to meeting many of you whom I have been talking to!

See you all at the show.

By Scott Michaels, VP, Atimi Software

Here at Atimi, we often play the role of educator when it comes to creating iPhone applications, and what is available to the client to measure the success of an application that has been launched. As we all know, Apple does not provide a wealth of stats back regarding the end user of your application. We are pleased to be part of an effort by multiple companies that are addressing that shortcoming, with one announced just today by Omniture. You can read the whole press release here, and look for the product to be available to the wider development community soon.

Being in the forefront of receiving ideas for iPhone applications and reviewing all the project that Atimi might take on, there is a real opportunity that is obvious but not being exploited by enough publishers and IP owners right now. That opportunity is to start an application now, that will be in the app store by mid-December.

Why? On Christmas morning there certainly will be many iPhones under the tree, but more to the point even more iTunes gift certificates in stockings, as gifts, and given as the default “I don’t know what they want” card.

Applications that are live and in the app store on Dec 25th, are going to see a big spike in sales as users roam, and spend those certificates starting as soon as they get opened and while they wait for dinner to be served and are bored to death at grandma’s house. This is a huge opportunity to gain revenue that might even cover the entire cost of development in the span of a week.

Of course, to find it users will need to know it exists and that is why people need to be starting now, getting the marketing ready - contacting the blogs and getting Atimi to write the app or game with time to spare before Christmas.

Are you going to let this one slip by? There won’t be many chances like this in the future.

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In attending CTIA in Sf this week, 2 things became totally clear. Firstly, CTIA only needs to be once a year, and this second CTIA should be replaced with an industry summit without the trade show booths as the show-floor was weak an no one was discussing anything they saw on the floor. What is really needed is more meeting space to talk.

Secondly, you can get more done by setting up home base at the XYZ bar at the W than you can by being on-site at the show. I had this discussion with quite a few attendees, who came to the same conclusion that more important than CTIA was if your corner at the W had power so you can recharge and keep showing all your demo’s and presentations.

From an Atimi perspective, CTIA was a success as we walked out with signed deals for work, the goal of any trade show. Or to put it another way, thanks to the W and the XYZ bar, since they provided more value than CTIA did.

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