One Billion Dollars

The virtual goods market is a one billion dollar market and is growing quickly. You see them in social networks, virtual worlds, online games, mobile apps, etc. We're leveraging them for clients and prepping Fun Nugget to take advantage of them as well. Animax Entertainment's Tucker Aaron was quoted in AOL's Money and Finance blog WalletPop about the growth of virtual goods. This week the Virtual Goods Summit is going on in San Francisco. We weren't able to make it to that conference because we're busy participating in Unite, the Unity 3D Developers conference also going on in San Francisco. Let us know if you'd like to meet up.

Adobe Accepts Valley Flash

Adobe just let us know today that Valley Flash has been accepted as an official Flash User group. The next meeting is Tuesday November 11th so come on by Animax that night for some knowledge and networking.

Valley Flash Forms

Valley Flash has been born. A new user group dedicated to Flash and Adobe Flex is forming to address the Flash developer and designer community based in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley. The inaugural meeting is happening Tuesday, September 9 from 7pm to 10pm. Any ActionScript developers, Flash designers, Flash animators, Game Programmers, users of Flash and fans of Flash are more than welcome to come to this meeting. The group website is still under development but you can follow the buzz on Twitter. The format is brief speaker sessions - this time focused on character animation and games from speakers from top agencies in LA - followed by a mixer sponsored by Technisource.

You don't need to live or work in the Valley in order to attend the meetings. Everyone is welcome. Right now the meetings will be held at Animax in Van Nuys, CA.

Panda Cute

A few things in life are Cute.

Even fewer things are Super Cute.

And then there are those rare gems that are Panda Cute -- a level of uber-cuteness that is humanly unattainable. Animax animated a series of shorts that are definitely Panda Cute. lil' panda just launched - complete with videos, ecards, wallpapers, screensavers, and merchandise. Forget YouTube. Check out pandatube and get your panda on!

Numb and Number

ESPN launched the next episode of the Emmy Award winning Off-Mikes today featuring Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg in "Numb and Number." In this episode Greenberg causes a scene at a christening party as his son rides him like a bucking bronco.