Happy Holidays

I'm starting to wind things down for the holidays and wanted to wish everyone a merry Christmas. Thanks to everyone who has been in contact with me through this blog this year, it's been great to get to know many of you at some events this year around the world. It's been a very big year for Moket in many ways, and 2007 looks like being even bigger.

Some of the Moket highlights of 2006 have been:

• Moving into our new office with i.Lab (and into a bigger one for 2007!)
  
• Seeing our content preinstalled on a Nokia phone in Singapore
  
• Making some great relationships in the US with Smashing Ideas and FunMobility
• Travelling to Seoul for FL Instructor training, then travelling to Manila and London to be an instructor for Adobe
• Speaking at MAX and webDU
• Doing the Total Training FL DVD (due out sometime in Jan 2007!)
• Starting the Australian Adobe Mobile and Devices user group
  

It's interesting to look back on the past 2 years of working with Flash Lite and to see where we're currently at. It's picked up so much momentum in the past 12 months but we have a lot further to go before I think we're all happy :) But after spending some time with the Adobe guys this year I'm sure that Flash Lite will grow very quickly from here into what we know it can be. And Flahs Lite has quickly gotten itself a pretty core developer community as well, which has been a great source of inspiration and friendship this year.

Special thanks for stuff in 2006 goes out to Alessandro, Scott J, Bill, "Kim Chi" Talbot, John Koch, Luciano, Marco, Adam Abranksi, Paul "Aces High" Lamonby, Brian "Tony Hawk" Burke, Geoff Bowers, Rocketboots-Robin, Ed Sullivan, Cherie Lee, Dawn and Kerian, Anne-Marie, Peter, Danny Z, Shauny-boy ... and of course my beautiful wife Tanya who supports me in this crazy life of running a start-up company. Thanks darling!

Season's Greetings to everyone, and a happy new year!

Apollo Video from Mike Chambers

For those who have had their heads under a rock somehwere for the past 12 months or so, Adobe are really gearing up for their new product called Apollo. The merging of Flash, Flex, HTML, etc into a desktop environment is very much a priority for them right now, getting loads of airtime at the recent MAX conference and I'm sure will be shown in more depth at the upcoming webDU 2007. Mike Chambers from Adobe posted this video online showing Christian Cantrell and a few Apollo apps he's been working on. A good watch if you want to see exactly what they're talking about.

Bond's mobile of choice

Saw the new "Casino Royale" 007 movie last night with my mate Dan ... and while not being a Bond-ophile, I have enjoyed quite a few of them over the years (enough to know that Sean Connery will always be the ultimate Bond!). Daniel Craig was a very good choice I think, but the choice I noticed (and this is my geek side coming out) was MI6's choice of Sony products :) In particular the K800 Sony Ericsson mobile Mr Bond was carrying.

You don't have to be a mobile developer to know that the app he was running on his phone (that mirrored the exact same functionality on his VAIO laptop) could be for real, but I'm sure it's not far off. You know what people say about life imitating art ... perhaps the next Bond installment will have James playing a casual game of the latest Flash Lite game while waiting for this martini (maybe of he uses Nokia next time :)

Time magazine's 'Person of the Year' is You

If you've ever contributed to a blog, responded to a post, added video to You-Tube, or become someone's friend on MySapce ... congratulations! You have just become Time magazine's Person of the Year. Apparently they feel that the effort that we have all gone to in changing the information era through user-created content is amazing, and they want to give us all a big warm fuzzy.

** REMOVE RANT HERE **

I actually just wrote a whole bit here about how crap I actually think sites like You-Tube and MySpace are (for many reasons) but I decided to leave it out since it may have come across a little hypocritical that I was raving on about my angst over most user-generated content on a blog!

So instead I will simply say that this Time Magazine Person of the Year would like to thank God, his mum and dad, his wife and kids, the many fans out there, and of course Tim Berners-Lee for without whom none of this would be possible.

Flash Lite Friday Digest #14

Alessandro has posted the latest Flash Lite Friday Digest - a summary of the latest news and links regarding Flash Lite.

Hold onto your Wiimote People!

Reports are appearing from disgruntled Wii owners who don't have Wii-cover on their home and contents insurance policies :) Seems that some people get a little excited playing the Wii with the whacky-do new remote controller that is motion sensitive - so excited in fact that they have a hard time holding onto the controller.

Check out www.wiihaveaproblem.com for some posts from gamers who have lost their grip!

UPDATE (Dec 18) : Nintendo to replace 3.2 million Wii-mote straps following reports of damaged televisions