Kinoma Notes

In 2011, we’ve had the plea­sure of meet­ing Kinoma fans and new friends at three gdgt live events in San Fran­cisco, New York and Seattle.

Today we’re happy to announce that we’ll be at our fourth (and last!) gdgt live show for 2011 — once again in San Fran­cisco – on Decem­ber 1.

When: Thurs­day, Decem­ber 1st, 2011 from 7–10pm
Where: The Metreon City View (top floor), 101 Fourth Street, San Fran­cisco
Who: Marvell’s Kinoma team + a bunch of the other hottest brands in tech
How: This event is free, all-ages, and open to the public

We’ll be demon­strat­ing the next ver­sion of Kinoma Play on a giant touch-screen dis­play, and talk­ing with mobile app devel­op­ers about the new Kinoma app platform.

Whether you’re a Kinoma Play fan, a devel­oper inter­ested in the new plat­form, or a mobile enthu­si­ast who wants to learn more, we’d love to meet you there!

Reg­is­ter here, free!

• gdgt live returns to San Fran­cisco on Decem­ber 1st! [gdgt blog]

We love gdgt, so we’re thrilled to be join­ing them for their lat­est “gdgt live” party and meetup! It’s hap­pen­ing this Fri­day (May 6) at the Metreon in San Francisco.

Tick­ets are free, and gdgt will be show­cas­ing some of the biggest brands and hottest gear around. Food and drinks are on the house, and the first few hun­dred peo­ple to come will be able to choose from some top-quality swag includ­ing your choice of a gdgt t-shirt or smart­phone case.

We’ll be there show­ing off the next ver­sion of Kinoma Play on the biggest touch-screen dis­play you’ve ever seen, and talk­ing about the brand new Kinoma app platform.

Whether you’re a Kinoma Play fan, a devel­oper inter­ested in the new plat­form, or just a mobile enthu­si­ast who wants to know what all the hubbub’s about, we’d love to meet you!

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Y’all, we had a won­der­ful time at “South By”!

South by South­west Inter­ac­tive was an amaz­ing oppor­tu­nity to talk with hun­dreds of devel­op­ers about our new, open Kinoma app plat­form, and to intro­duce thou­sands of non-developers to Kinoma Play’s awe­some­sauce.

(Are you a mobile app devel­oper? Couldn’t make it to SXSWi? No prob­lem — you can still sign up for early access to the Kinoma SDK here. )

The booth

The Mar­vell booth was absolutely thrum­ming with guests.

Vis­i­tors could start at the front counter, where we had a bunch of Marvell-powered ASUS phones run­ning Kinoma Play for Android.

Or they could just wan­der on in any­where to talk with us and relax in our comfy chairs.

The booth even had built-in white­boards where peo­ple could sketch the kinds of mobile apps they want to see, or even make for themselves.

The panel

Our own Peter Hod­die, VP of Kinoma at Mar­vell, spoke at a panel called “Plat­form Suc­cess: Earn­ing Devel­op­ers’ Trust, Hearts and Minds”. The panel talked about how devel­op­ers can thrive in mobile.

Mod­er­ated by Harry McCracken, the panel also fea­tured Bran­don Wat­son, direc­tor for Win­dows Phone 7; James Keller, co-founder of Small Soci­ety; and Ben Sat­ter­field, 2008 and 2009 SXSW Web Award Winner.

The party

Finally, we invited a few hun­dred of our newest friends to a rooftop party over­look­ing Austin’s his­toric 6th Street.

Thank you!

Thanks to every­one who stopped by to talk with us.

We learned a lot (we hope you did too!), and we’re excited to get the Kinoma plat­form into your hands and hear what you think.

If you fol­low Kinoma on Face­book or Twit­ter, you know that we made some game-changing announce­ments at this week’s Mobile World Con­gress show.

For every­body that’s not yet on either Face­book or Twit­ter, here’s what you need to know…

Kinoma, Inc. is no more. Long live Kinoma!

Mar­vell is a lead­ing semi­con­duc­tor com­pany, which means that they make chips. Lots of chips. They shipped over a bil­lion chips last year, with a focus on mobile and lifestyle computing.

Mar­vell needed an advanced soft­ware plat­form to com­ple­ment their hard­ware plat­forms — and that’s where we came in. Mar­vell pur­chased Kinoma, Inc. in late 2010, and this week we announced the acqui­si­tion and intro­duced Kinoma — a new, open-source plat­form for the next gen­er­a­tion of apps.

• Mar­vell Intro­duces Kinoma — Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Open Soft­ware Plat­form to Unify Appli­ca­tions
  

What they’re saying

The press, ana­lysts and blog­gers had some great things to say about our announce­ments. A few highlights:

“Kinoma deliv­ers on the promise so many com­pa­nies are chas­ing — a thought­fully designed, beau­ti­ful user inter­face that enhances user expe­ri­ence. The capa­bil­i­ties of this plat­form are cru­cial for cre­at­ing a new class of con­nected devices with a sim­ple, con­sis­tent user expe­ri­ence and access to the con­tent they need, no mat­ter where they are.” — Tim Bajarin, pres­i­dent of Cre­ative Strategies

“Kinoma now has a prac­ti­cally infi­nite play­ground, to take one of the slick­est touch-based inter­faces I’ve ever seen, point­ing it first at smart­phone and tablets, and later, tak­ing it down­mar­ket to prac­ti­cally every screen you’ve seen that begs for an over­haul.” — Louis Gray

“Mar­vell today intro­duced Kinoma, a soft­ware plat­form for mobile devices and more — every­thing from ‘smart appli­ances’ to ‘smart fur­nish­ings’. […] ‘Fast. Open. Beau­ti­ful,’ goes the tagline of a new pro­mo­tional video. And we’d agree with all three.” — Fast Com­pany

“On Mon­day, Mar­vell announced they were acquir­ing Kinoma. To the man on the street, that sounds more like the plot of a comic book and not the merg­ing of some pretty seri­ous play­ers in the mobile indus­try, which is what it actu­ally is.” — TechCrunch

We had some won­der­ful con­ver­sa­tions with folks dur­ing the show, and were grat­i­fied that most peo­ple imme­di­ately under­stood why the Kinoma plat­form mat­ters as device plat­forms and form fac­tors proliferate.

But I love Kinoma Play!

Cool, because we’re happy to announce that an incred­i­ble new ver­sion of Kinoma Play will be avail­able soon.

For a peek at the all-new Kinoma Play, take a look at this new video we cre­ated for Mobile World Congress:

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcgFhAd1R_8

Android users can sign up for the Kinoma Play for Android beta right now at http://kinoma.com/. (Win­dows Mobile and Symbian/S60 users: We haven’t for­got­ten about you, and we’ll announce betas for those plat­forms on Face­book or Twit­ter first.)

Thank you

Our sin­cere thanks and grat­i­tude to you, our cus­tomer. We lit­er­ally couldn’t have got­ten to this point with­out your support.

With this week’s announce­ments, the future of Kinoma tech­nolo­gies is blind­ingly bright. Come along as we help soft­ware and hard­ware devel­op­ers build a world of Kinoma-powered stuff!