A look ahead at 2011
Well, 2010 was a pretty exciting year for Ajar Productions. We released a new Flash animation book with Chris Georgenes (I served as co-author, and AJ as tech editor). I spoke at the Adobe MAX conference in LA again. Shortly after MAX, we released SmartMouth, our first commercial product. SmartMouth licenses have been selling pretty regularly ever since. At some point, we hope that our software products will become our primary source of revenue. The income from commercial products should make it easier to continue releasing free products and leave time to produce more tutorials (we hope).
We’ve hit the ground running this year as well. I collaborated with Adobe to produce a video that was featured on the Flash team’s Youtube and Facebook pages, and received some fantastic feedback. Last week, I was also delighted to learn that I’d been selected to become an Adobe Community Professional.
With one month already over in 2011, we’ve got a lot to look forward to in the remaining 11 months. We’re going to be pushing some updates for SmartMouth in the coming months and we’d love to hear from you. Let us know what you think about the product—good, bad, indifferent—the more details the better. We’ve also got a long list of ideas for new tools. We’ll probably only have time to focus on a select few, and we’ll post updates as we have more information available. If you have ideas for products you’d like to see from us, let us know using this form.
I hope to include more tutorials on the blog this year, probably starting with a series on learning JSFL. It sounds like AJ will be involved with some more books this year, more on that later. Let us know in the comments if there’s anything particular that you’d like to see on the blog this year.
We very much appreciate all the donations last year! Thanks for another year of reading and supporting us!