These latest stats from Canalys shows that Apple’s Market position stayed fairly constant at 16% with  RIM showing some decline as well as Microsoft and others.  The interesting fact is that Nokia was the one that  just got the crushing blow by  Google down 14% from 44% to 30%.

The Best from the view from the Valley

Best Internet Application
Chartbeat
Greplin
Pandora (winner)
Rdio (runnerup)
Ujam

“There is no issue that Radio is strong and in a new form, evolved from the basics of Terrestrial broadcast.  Too bad Spotify was not here in the US to add to the competition, but surprised not to see some of the video apps like Netflix or Hulu make the stage.  2011 will probably be the year of video.  CBSradio has a killer cross-media platform for internet radio, but its Play.it service has been underground now for all too long. What happened Last.FM?

Best Social App
Cityville
Dailybooth (winner)
Foursquare
GroupMe
Twitter (runnerup)

“Wowed by this winner and I did think that Cityville would win hands down.  I guess it started too late in 2010, and Farmville a bit too early. What happened to mytown or scvngr.  We can say that location and gaming is getting hot.  Look at the latest acquisition by Zynga of Area/Code, and we can all predict the exciting things to come in 2011.  AR will make headway in 2011, but not yet ripe enough to take center stage I guess.”

Best Social Commerce App
Blippy
Groupon (winner)
Jetsetter
LivingSocial
One Kings Lane
ShopKick (runnerup)

“Obvious choice, Good news for the mobile guys over at ShopKick!  Congrats Cyriac, Jeff. I knew they were on to something when I saw how local it has become. It is really the talk around the retailers these days, and lets see how this integration goes for 2011:

Best Mobile App
Bump
Chomp
Google Mobile Maps for Android (winner)
Hashable
Instagram (runnerup)

” Can believe this won, but would have to say that Facebook cross-platform would have been my guess.  I guess there is strength in the Map, and until Facebook launches its own unique Maps, it is going to be hard to grab the wind out of  the air in Google’s map platform for mobile.  Shazam was not in there, that was a surprize…. I guess they need more with their Android strategy…”

Best Location Based Service
Facebook Places (runnerup)
Foursquare (winner)
Gowalla
SimpleGeo
Uber

“Curious what the user base of Facebook Places is these days. 4Sqr has 6M users, but it is beginning to lack its shine with nothing new. If there is a time for it to win it will be in 2010.  2011 will be a tough year for these guys, so looking forward to the new innovation.  I guess SXSW will be another showdown for the latest and greatest of this battleground.”

Best New Device
Boxee Box
Google Chrome Notebook
iPad (winner)
iPhone 4
Kno
Xbox Kinect (runnerup)

” Who can argue with 15M sold in the first year?  Many debate it is 4 iPhones pasted together with no camera, but this product transcended the screen revolution to grow the new category of 5~15inch screens.  I expect some real exciting things from V2 of the iPad in 2011, but if there was a year for them to win it over at Apple, 2010 was it.  This product truly hit the nerve center of the consumer in 2010….. a long time coming after the category was originally created by Apple with the Newton”

Best Technology Achievement
Blekko
Google Self-driving Cars (winner)
Hunch
Palantir
Qwiki (runnerup)
Word Lens

” Found this interesting, but expected as this is TechCrunch, would have liked to see BetterPlace in there, but I guess it is a bit too early. Surprising that battery innovation has not hit the stage yet or even robotics, but this is something for 2020. “

Best Design
1000memories
about.me (runnerup)
Airbnb
Flipboard
Gogobot (winner)
Qwiki

“Have not been following design as much as i like these days- Love to see what the Webby’s bring, but found GIST, and some of the innovation at Time Inc, Sports Illustrated, Wired with their iPad apps quite innovative in design with the inclusion of advertising.

Best Touch Interface
Flipboard (winner)
Fotopedia Heritage iPad app (runnerup)
Osmos
Pulse News Reader
Sencha Touch
Swype

“Yes- again the obvious choice.  They made some much media over the last year that it is hard why not to say they were not the number 1 choice.  Looking forward to 3D space becoming part of the touch and interface experience”

Best Bootstrapped Startup
Addmired (iMob) (winner)
Beluga
Easel
Fast Society
Instapaper (runnerup)
Techmeme

“Would have liked to see Intapaper win on this front if their was a choice, but you have to Admire the guys at Addmired. Maybe it really is all in a name?”

Best Enterprise
37 Signals
Buddy Media (winner)
CloudApp
inDinero
Millennial Media (runnerup)
Salesforce

” Can stop seeing the posters for Buddy Media in every Airport I fly into….. They did get the big bang for 2010 and with good reason. They have done an excellent job of bringing brands to Facebook in many unique ways. Happy for Paul and the team over tat Millennial for this runner-up! They certainly deserved it for some exciting things in 2010 to carve the mobile ad ecosystem in the face of iAds and Admob.  Where is Evernote these days?

Best International
Crivo
PCH International
Soluto (runnerup)
ViKi (winner)
VNL
Wonga

‘” Can not say more about this one, but ViKi was clearly exciting in 2010″

Best Clean Tech
Coolerado
Kopernik (runnerup)
MicroGreen
Puralytics
Smith Electric Vehicles
SolarCity (winner)

“Yes- here comes the Sun! we all need that power…”

Best Time Sink Application
Angry Birds (runnerup)
Cityville (winner)
Netflix streaming
Quora
StumbleUpon

“Ah…come on! We could see Cityville winning as the most viral, and but I would have expected to see Angry Birds on this one…… What did it for me and Angry Birds is that they really did grow organically from scratch.  I am addicted to Angry Birds, but I do have a problem with my social graph and time-sinks intertwined…”

Angel of the Year
Jeff Clavier, SoftTech VC
Ron Conway, SV Angel (runnerup)
Michael Dearing, Harrison Metal Capital
Chris Dixon, Founder Collective
Mike Maples, FLOODGATE
Paul Graham, Y Combinator (winner)

“Congrats Paul! What a great ride”

VC of the Year (individual)
Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz
Roelof Botha, Sequoia Capital
Jim Breyer, Accel Partners
John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins
Yuri Milner, DST (winner)
Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures (runnerup)

” Yuri has been part of an amazing influential ride that is for sure.”

Founder of the Year
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks
Dennis Crowley, Foursquare
Jack Dorsey, Square (runnerup)
Kevin and Julia Hartz, Eventbrite
David Karp, Tumblr
Mark Pincus, Zynga (winner)

” Yes- Mark clearly took us to new places with the meaning of social community and viral entertainment.  I beleive we will see more of Jack in 2011″

CEO of the Year
Dick Costolo, Twitter
Reed Hastings, Netflix
Drew Houston, Dropbox
Andrew Mason, Groupon (winner)
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook (runnerup)

” I think the way Andrew handled Japan was the icing on the cake for this one. Turning down 6B, and I am sure we will see a bit of that Chicago spirit come further into the location based advertising stage in 2010.  Steve Jobs was not there this time…was it the iPhone 4 Antenna issue?

Best New Startup or Product of 2010
Flipboard
GroupMe
Instagram
Quora (winner)
Square (runnerup)
Uber

” Found this hard to sink my teeth into, but it is the right trend for the next wave.”

Best Overall Startup or Product of 2010
Facebook
Groupon (runnerup)
Quora
Twitter (winner)
Zynga

” Still problems with downtime and again an obvious choice.  If they did not win this, what would they win.  Twitter has been a bit stagnant these days, and looking for the next big innovative twist by them”

Now that we have Digital Notebooks, there is the increasing discussion and debate over how to combine this or integrate this with paper. What are the different needs and when will this convergence really occur.  This is an active discussion over in Japan as technologies collide with the latest cool tablets in the market.  We have seen a bit of convergence with books, but when will writing on paper become part of that digital experience.

There are many devices that have surfaced over the years that can take in writing and convert it to a digital image on a screen. In places like Asia with handwriting so important, it is going to be exciting to see the types of devices to come to market.  We at ADO had a unique concept that was in the works for a patent several years ago.  This in fact was one of the concepts that led to the naming of the company- Analog.Digital.Objects.   It is exciting to see this debate coming back into the main stream.

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「デジタル手帳とアナログ手帳は両方使う」人が多い？――300万人編集会議の議論より

2011年1月21日
日経トレンディネットでは、「300万人編集会議」というコミュニティサイトをオープンした。これはその時々の旬なテーマについて話し合うネット上の「編集会議」。オープンと同時に開設した特集班のテーマが「手帳術」だ。ここでは、今まさにその会議室で行われている議論の様子を紹介する。
日経トレンディネットの「300万人編集会議」では現在、「アナログvsデジタル 最強の手帳術」と題し、手帳や手帳アプリの使い方について議論する会議を開催中です。そんななか、活発な意見が交わされているのが「アナログとデジタル、どう使い分ける？」というテーマのトピックです。
（注）この記事は、300万人編集会議に参加者が登録した発言の一部を抜粋したものです。ページの都合上、発言の一部だけを抜粋したり、意味を変えない範囲で若干の編集を行った部分があります。納富廉邦氏によるこの呼びかけから議論が始まりました。

納富廉邦さん

紙の「アナログ手帳」も、スマートフォンのスケジュールアプリを中心にした「デジタル手帳」も、最近はどちらの市場も盛り上がっています。では、皆さんはどちらを使っていますか？それとも、併用していますか？

あなたがデジタルorアナログを選ぶ理由や、両者の使い分け方について意見を聞かせてください。私は2011年に入ってからは、何故かデジタル一辺倒ですが、バックアップとしての紙の重要性も感じています。皆様はいかがでしょう。

As predicted, the “mobile app” will become the next generation “Credit Card”. It is like what the CD did to LP’s ( completely change the game), the mobile app gives not only the opportunities of what we lived with plastic, but loyality, offers, alerts, location-based-marketing and a whole lot more.  Starbucks is a major early adapter of this service and their approach to drive mCommerse with this application will be a leading first of the “game-changers” of the industry.

Even though they are using their own proprietary technology to do this, it shows the power of mobile in our daily lives and convenience.   We can expect fragmentation as the alliance with the mobile operators has been late to the game.  Google is driving their own NFC initiatives along with Apple and a variety of others.  2011 will be a showdown in this area of applications as the replacement to plastic.

Fiercemobile Stats

At this rate they are doing  180K/day of products shipped and activated.  This is a bit over half of what Google has claimed to be 300K/day of Androids activated.  Nokia is still doing north of 1M/day….. In order for Apple to reach that 1M/day based on this growth timeline we are looking at the end of 2014.  Now with the expansion of Verizon and other carriers, the growth curb will “hockey stick a bit” and we could even see them hit the 1M/day even by the end of 2012 0r beginning of 2013.

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TV and Mobile Universe's collide [ Nielsen Media Universe

Nielsen’s published this great diagram that compares the TV universe and mobile.  Although these are treated separately, I believe we are in for an exciting evolution of the convergence of TV and Mobile.  This year at CES many of the large consumer TV manufactures have embraced internet TV as the next big wave with their own “Cloud” based frameworks for managing and distributing content.

This diagram shows the different sizes and breakdowns of the market in North America.  It is clear the Google TV and Android coming together is a “strategy” many of the players of the ecosystem need to reckon with moving forward.

Recently, Samsung, Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, Vizio, Toshiba, and LG have all show cased their own unique platforms for interactive TV.  It appears like the big winners that are providing services cross many of these platforms,  NetFlix, Huluplus as well as YouTube ( Google) are all leveraging this new channel to bring interactive content to the large screen.  They also have solutions and apps for the little screen, and this next step of a remote that is in the form of an application is something that will be big in 2011.

Here is an ad from LG’s new offers as well.  They have a great dynamic website that showcases this new interactive TV.  They actually have a separate “remote controller” in this demo, but in my mind it is just months away before we see this completely integrated as well into an application controlling the screen.

iPhone 4 is the most innovative phone in the world, featuring Apple’s stunning Retina™ display, the highest resolution display ever built into a phone resulting in super crisp text, images and video, and FaceTime®, which makes video calling a reality. iPhone 4 on Verizon Wireless will also include new Personal Hotspot capabilities allowing customers to use iPhone 4 to connect up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices.

retail price of $199.99 for the 16GB model and $299.99 for the 32GB model with a new two year customer agreement. iPhone 4 will be available at more than 2,000 Verizon Wireless Communications Stores nationwide, online at www.verizonwireless.com/iphone, at Apple Retail Stores, at the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), at Apple Authorized Resellers.

• As of November, the ratio of iOS to Android users was more than 15 to 1 at AT&T.
• iOS at AT&T has twice the users as Android at Verizon
• Although T-Mobile had the Android franchise to itself for all of 2009, it was overtaken by Verizon within four months
• T-Mobile Android consumption has also been nearly matched by Sprint within a year

In Addition, this extension by Apple and Verizon shows that we are moving into a new era of advanced devices and connectivity that will lead to an exciting 2011 in the ecosystem of mobile internet and cross-media applications.

Given the fact that the Verizon iPhone is still not the LTE 4G device, there is room for the release of the iPhone 5 during this year with an exiting evolution to not only the network capabilities, but also the link to rich-media.

At CES this year, there was a plethora of new innovative 3D services and video delivery systems.  Group video with Skype and being able to consume video at a signal action on the device will only get better and better.  The use of the device as a remote control tied to a users TV set will keep evolving and the ubiquitous nature of having all kinds of vertical applications leveraging real-time communications will make the device more and more personal in our daily lives.  With this growth, there will be all kinds of new business models and we grow more mobile in this next decade.

Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader Digital Books had evolved as separate products with a sweet-spot price below the cost of tablets.  However, the Android OS has enabled a flurry of low-cost devices as low as $75 ( such as Chinese Manufacturer –   www.gajah.com.hk  ) were launched this year at CES.  In the past I was a believer of a separate eBook, but looking at this price degradation, the advances in display technology and the propensity for adding this feature on smart devices,  I would expect quite a bit of turbulance in the eReader market in 2011.

Barnes & Noble has recently launched ( Nov 2010) their Color product that has been based on Android is a clearly focused as a Reader device. However, given the fact  the OS is Android with browser it is only natural additional applications will started to surface.  According to the Nook representative, ” They wanted to keep the other features out as they are distracting.   If a mother were to give her child an eBook, she would probably want him/her to read and not get distracted.  When they donated the Nook to a local public library, they found that by keeping out the other features, students were more focused on reading.” ” Could you imagine if it were a typical Android tablet? the student might end-up playing games instead”. Nevertheless, with the competition for eBooks evolving quite rapidly, “Even  Barnes and Noble is contemplating adding the Android Marketplace to the product”, she said, “However this is was not confirmed.”

An interesting eBook Application from Copia leverages the strength of the smart phone architecture and browser to bring more social networking features into place. With thier patent pending solution around “Collaborative” note taking and commenting, they see the eBook market as more of an Application that spans across devices to leverage the social network as a Book Club.   They believe this will help propel the sale of more books through recommendations via the readers  virtual social network.

This further convergence is just another basic trend that was clearly happening on Android devices at CES.