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The waiting is finally over! It is two weeks (check out the countdown widget below) until we launch our newest product and future direction of the company. It has been tough to not talk about Sprout and how we believe it will change the way people build flash files and distribute widgets. Our tagline is that anyone can quickly and easily build living content^SM. Come check out our new Website at sproutbuilder.com and Blog

I want to thank everyone who has helped us along this past year. Our ChipIn users who continue to amaze us with how our little fundraising widget has changed lives. The entire ChipIn team who have worked hard to make Sprout a reality. Don’t worry, we have not forgotten our roots… ChipIn users will be invited to soon build sophisticated fundraising widgets in Sprout! Come check us out at DEMO on Jan 28th at 3 pm PST for our stage presentation or visit our booth. Wish us luck!

A friend of mine one night in a sake stupor at our favorite sushi restaurant in Honolulu (Yanagi) jumped up and screamed… “we’re going to Maui” in an effort to get us to bail on work and go with him the next morning.  Needless to say, I didn’t make the journy, so it is now with great pleasure that I can announce that we are going to “DEMO!” with the expectation that I’ll be there on Jan 28th.  I promised more blogging, so here we go.  We sold the versus apps, have been secretly working on a new product for the past year as the ChipIn.com site chugs along.  So to entice you to keep reading I’ll just dribble the news out a bit at a time.

We’ve reached a remarkable milestone! Join us at DEMO 08 and see how we will rearchitect the future of technology.

DEMO 08 • The Launchpad for Emerging Technologies
January 28-30, 2008
Desert Springs, A JW Marriott Resort & Spa
Palm Desert, CA
www.demo.com/D8PROMOKIT

We’re excited to announce that we have been selected to reveal our groundbreaking technology at DEMO 08, the premier, unparalleled event that showcases the latest, best technologies – those that promise to literally reshape our future and enrich our lives.

Happy New Year!  Lots of exciting announcements from us so keep your RSS newsreader warmed up and ready to ingest everything we are sending your way.  To start things off, I am very happy to announce that ChipIn has finalized the sale of our Versus franchise today.  What started off as an idea over a couple of beers as a fun way to market ChipIn on Facebook has turned into a pretty cool game franchise with many flavors.  From Pirates, Ninjas, Snowboarders, Skiers, Santa, Grinch, Cops, to Robbers.  Why did we sell an application with over 5M users?  5M pageviews per day?

FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS.

We are launching a killer new product at DEMO later this month and as much fun as we were having on the Versus apps, we need to put 100% of our resources into the future of our company.. as a dominant widget authoring technology (sheesh.. more on that soon).  There was a pretty cool article in Inc. magazine this month outlining why ChipIn decided to sell our Versus apps on Facebook. As much as we are sad to see our apps go, we are really happy to be working with Michael Lazerow, CEO and his team at Buddy Media to continue to grow our Versus franchise while integrating Acebucks into the applications to create a more robust and fun user experience for everyone.

; A big cheers to Austin and Dustin who have been building out the applications and a toast to Rob and Andy for writing much of the initial code base.So if you have not checked out the Facebook versus apps, go give them a spin.  And if you want to read more about the transaction, check out the Buddy Media blog post.   What’s going on with DEMO?  More info will be coming soon.  I’m back and blogging now.