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Can you spare a buck fifty? Listen to my quick interview with Launch Pad Winner Adam Blum of Rhomobile. Quick because I caught Blum on his way out the Moscone door after he briefly checked out of the Rhomobile exhibitor booth. He was heading back to his Cupertino office, which is located next to Apple. The man had little time to celebrate or rest on his laurels. Rhomobile opened for business on September 2008 and is currently staffed with 12 employees. They create a cross platform for smart phone apps. They build native smart phone applications for the iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile , Symbian and Android. The Launch Pad is the talent contest for up and coming innovators of now and next year. Six finalists pitched their companies to a crowd of curious on lookers, three expert judges, and potential partners and VC’s.

Yesterday, I attended the three day long web 2.0 Expo Conference at Moscone Center West in San Francisco. With my free Expo pass, not only did I have free reign to the Sponsored Sessions, I had access to the more than 70 exhibitors which included big wig sponsors such as Adobe and Cisco to non-profits such as Give@Asia. Adobe had all day demos of their product lineup. Adobe presenter, Paul Trani showed off the Adobe Flash Builder 4 to the 60+ curious onlookers. I’m not a flasher (I just couldn’t resist) and don’t know how to write code from scratch. But given the fact that you can extract a Photoshop (and other Creative Suite tools) image from your desktop and use the software’s various custom templates and applications, the steps looked pretty straightforward. Trani transformed his static Photoshop generated image into a mobile flash game of a floating creature eating other aliens. I’ve used Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design and Final Cut Pro and I’ve taken a basic web desi...