I haven’t died nor abandoned this blog. Nor did LegalZoom adultnap me after my last article.

My day job has kept me busy, but that’s not why I haven’t been posting. In lieu of writing, I’ve been planning the evolution of this blog which for now is comprised of 2 main things:

(1) Complete re-design of the blog. I know what you’re thinking, pretty brave considering all the hate mail I got after my last attempted re-design (thanks to all those who wrote/called, btw). This time I am doing it right, so expect a cleaner and more content-accessible blog. More resources. New logo, too.

(2) I am joining the SpringStage Network, as I feel it will increase the open source & collaborative nature of the blog.

Thanks for reading.

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2 quick announcements:

(1) Fort Worth Startup Happy Hour tonight at the Flying Saucer. Starts at 5pm. (I hope you don’t have to speak Klingon to get in.)

(2) Vote for Big In Japan in the Mobile Monday event in Spain.

I’ll also have another announcement about this blog soon…and a real post, too.

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I frequently get requests from clients to be a beta tester for their software. Normally I don’t participate in beta tests because frankly I am not tech savvy enough to figure out what is going on.

But today my iPhone is playing beta tester because the team at Big in Japan Inc. installed ShopSavvy, their wildly popular shopping assistant application, on my iPhone. Check out the screenshot of my iPhone:

Screenshot of ShopSavvy Icon on the iPhone

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As the year is about to close, I wanted to wish all of you a Happy New Year. Here’s a list of the blog’s 2008 top 10 most viewed articles:

1. 7 Legal Documents for Your Tech Startup (10,243 pageviews)
2. How to Avoid Being Ripped Off When You Lease Office Space, Part 2 (3,168)
3. Top 5 Reasons to Incorporate in Delaware (3,135)
4. Keep Your Startup Co-Founder Closer (1,946)
5. How to Avoid Being Ripped Off When You Lease Office Space, Part 3 (1,907)
6. How I Launched My Startup Law Firm (1,605)
7. How to Avoid Being Ripped Off When You Lease Office Space, Part 1 (1,586)
8. What is a Pre-Money and Post-money Valuation? (1,170)
9. Coworking Confidential (1,103)
10. How Many Shares Should a Startup Company Authorize at Incorporation (1,068)

Thanks again for your readership and I hope to continue to build out The Startup Lawyer in 2009.

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I normally don’t promote client achievements–I’m proud of my clients but feel weird blogging about their (non-privileged) information. But it’s not often that one of my clients gets nominated for a Crunchie.

ShopSavvy, developed by Big in Japan Inc., is a nominee for a 2008 Crunchie in the “Best Mobile App” Category.

The Crunchies is an annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. They are co-hosted by GigaOm, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, and TechCrunch, while the internet community is invited to choose who wins.

Here’s what ShopSavvy does on the Google Phone:

ShopSavvy is a shopping assistant developed for Google’s Android mobile phone platform and is one of T-Mobile’s featured applications in their 2008/2009 US and EU launch. Users can scan the bar code of any product using their phone’s built-in camera. ShopSavvy will then search for the best prices online and through the inventories of nearby, local stores using the phone’s built-in GPS. ShopSavvy won Google’s Android Developer Challenge and is available in Google’s Market.

So if you get the chance, vote for ShopSavvy.

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