http://mikejsolutions.com Social Games Developer | Flex - Actionscript 3 Engineer | Rich Internet Applications Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:34:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am excited to announce today that I have officially joined the social gaming team at Playdom. This company has an unbelievably bright future and I make this move with deep conviction and enthusiasm. The last few months have been filled with an unusual amount of opportunities resulting from the launch ... http://mikejsolutions.com/2010/01/24/joining-playdom-where-players-rule/ The Launch. On September 8, 2009, Storybook Anytime, officially announced the beta release of "Reef Life". A family friendly social game on the Facebook platform. This marks the long anticipated follow up to the "original" Facebook aquarium game, Sam's Fish Bowl. Over six months of around the clock work ... http://mikejsolutions.com/2009/10/16/reef-life-raising-the-bar-for-social-games/ I am very honored to be the featured developer profile in this month's edition of Adobe Edge— the online magazine for Adobe developers. The article, "Behind the scenes of Sam's Interactive Reader" chronicles the creation of Storybook Anytime and the production of our flagship Adobe AIR product, Sam's Interactive Reader. ... http://mikejsolutions.com/2009/04/07/adobe-developer-profile-mike-johnston/ The Adobe Air team presented Storybook Anytime during the Adobe MAX conference in Milan, Italy this past December. Robert Christensen presented a session titled "Monetizing Applications with Adobe AIR" in which he examined case studies that describe how developers are attempting to monetize and market AIR applications. The featured case ... http://mikejsolutions.com/2009/03/25/storybook-anytime-presented-at-the-adobe-max-conference-in-milan/ The first task that an online business will face is choosing a domain name. Sometimes this is as simple as extending the existing brand name online. Most often this is not an option because some one else already owns the domain. Successful Internet Marketing starts with understanding creative online brand ... http://mikejsolutions.com/2008/12/21/online-brand-identity-whats-your-name/ When I stumbled upon the imagery below from David Armano at Logic+Emotion it really fueled my thinking about business models in general. I have often been fascinated with the "agency model." There are those, like myself, that believe the traditional agency model is dead. Strategically, creating a business around this model ... http://mikejsolutions.com/2008/12/04/path-to-enlightenment-the-agency-business-model/ A friend of mine recommended the game Portal for the Xbox recently. As fate would have it the Xbox Live Market place not only had a demo available for download, but I could purchase the entire game as well. So I did. This game is quite simply remarkable. What a ... http://mikejsolutions.com/2008/11/29/portal/ Put your gamertag here too. The XBOX 360 gaming experience is quite simply the best. Over the course of a year, as a side benefit to my [former] job at Millions of Us, I have had the opportunity to view many game titles on both the XBOX 360 and PS3 platforms. ... http://mikejsolutions.com/2008/11/28/join-me-on-xbox-live/ Sam's Fish Bowl allows you to become the caregiver of a super-unique fish. Your fish is alive and well and lives everyday on Facebook. He will require special care and feeding from both you and your friends, and will certainly become a beloved member of the family. Each time you feed ... http://mikejsolutions.com/2008/11/26/sams-fish-bowl-facebook-app/ It’s been five months since Storybook Anytime launched the first version of its online children’s library. It is amazing the amount of feedback and suggestions that was received from users. That feedback did not fall on deaf ears. Storybook Anytime is pleased to announce "Sam's Interactive Reader"- a child safe ... http://mikejsolutions.com/2008/10/09/sams-interactive-reader/