And by the way, it’s only a penny on Amazon.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

This Thanksgiving weekend, we are thankful for the many milestones we’ve achieved, including Mobile Entertainment Awards 2011 nomination for Best Adult Company!  As a relative newcomer, we are proud to be nominated with some of the best adult brands in the industry. The event takes place tomorrow, on Nov 23rd at the Royal Garden Hotel, London.

Check out a video reel of last year’s events:

We were super excited to get our hands on a Kindle Fire last week – a great Android powered tablet for under $200? Sign us up!

Tons of people have written detailed reviews about the Kindle Fire. We’ve shared a few of our favorites below, but no one’s written this review yet:

MiKandi is the Kindle Fire’s killer app.

See?

MiKandi: the Kindle Fire's killer app

’nuff said .

For all of you with a Kindle Fire, all you have to do is:

• Click on the gear icon at the upper right corner of the screen
• Select “More”
• Select “Device”
• Turn “Allow Installation of Applications” On

A few Kindle Fire reviews:

– Jason Perlow’s “Amazon’s Kindle Fire: The tablet’s Volkswagen moment”

- AppleInsider’s take on the Kindle Fire

- Sascha Segan’s advice on How to Run Almost Any Android App on the Kindle Fire

- TechCrunch’s video take on the Kindle Fire

- Techpinion’s blog post on why Kindle Fire reviews are all over the place

At MiKandi, we believe that adults should be treated as adults. We were founded on the belief that you should get what you want on your device! If you want to make money selling porn apps that you developed yourself, who are we to stop you? As long as it’s legal of course.

We also believe in treating our developers and customers with the respect all adults deserve. We pride ourselves in that, and everytime we get an email like this,

Thank you so much for your persistence and concern! Its hilarious for me to be getting such great customer service from a porn service! Keep up the great work!

we can help but blush a little. BTW, OP, if you’re reading this- we’re still trying to squash that bug. Hang tight!

Since we’re an adult app market for adults, by adults, we have certain expectations for our developers and customers. By participating in our community, you can help us keep MiKandi a safe environment. Here’s how:

Leave feedback

Rating and reviewing applications you’ve downloaded is a sure-fire way to keep good apps at the top of the barrel. If you find a great app, support the developer by leaving a positive review. That will in turn encourage the developer to create more great apps. If you find something that sucks, warn other customers. And if you find something that really sucks (like a malicious or stolen app or illegal content), contact us.

Report illegal content immediately

If you unknowingly download an application that has illegal content, you should contact MiKandi immediately. Include the app’s name, the developer’s email address, and if you have it, the title of the clip or content in the app. We will unpublish the application immediately and take the next appropriate steps.

If you find a pirated version of your app  in MiKandi, let us know. If your content has been stolen, send us a DMCA Take Down Notice and we’ll take appropriate action. Developers, not sure if you have the right to distribute certain content or apps? Read this and this for more information.

Don’t be a douchebag

When you download MiKandi, you agree to our Terms of Use. Check out Rule #2- No douchebaggery permitted. While this can be interpreted many ways, for the most part that means

• Developers, don’t leave nasty reviews on your competitors apps in an effort to promote your own;
• Customers, don’t accuse developers of something serious unless you have proof;
• Don’t steal apps or content;
• Don’t register an account with someone else’s email;
• Don’t share MiKandi with minors;
• Don’t cheat us and developers by buying a bunch of apps, then requesting a chargeback from your bank.

How not to be a douchebag? Know that you’re dealing with adults and treat everyone with respect. It’s that simple.

It’s been a hot minute since we gave our readers an update on what we’re doing here at MiKandi. As usual, we’re dressing like nerds, acting like pornstars, and coding away to build products and APIs that deliver you your favorite porn to your favorite Android device.

It’s almost our birthday!

November, particularly Thanksgiving weekend, is a pretty big deal for us at MiKandi. We launched on Thanksgiving Day 2009. In 2010, we launched MiKandi Gold and a total overhaul of the MiKandi App Market. This year, we hope to keep up with tradition by releasing another huge product. So keep in touch with us here, on Twitter, and on Facebook to stay up to date with MiKandi news and announcements.

What about GoogleTV?

Also you may have read on Gigaom that MiKandi has no immediate plans to support GoogleTV. We’re always looking for ways to extend our service to as many screens as possible. While we don’t currently support GoogleTV with native applications, we are working on an HTML5 product so all of our non-Android fans can satisfy their Kandi craving. Because we’re cool like that.

AVN or bust!

It’s pretty lame-sauce that AVN and CES don’t coincide anymore. It’s the end of the Horny Nerd era (with which we fit perfectly). Still, if you’ll be in Las Vegas for AVN, holla atcha app store.

Want to earn MiKandi Gold?

If you follow us on Twitter or have liked our Fan Page, you may have seen some opportunities from us to earn MiKandi Gold. Be sure to follow and like us to say abreast (hehehe…. boobs) of our contests. Don’t worry, we won’t ask for anything too crazy. Just a nipple here and there.

This goes without saying, but to participate (and to download and use MiKandi) you must be at least 18 years of age or over the age of majority in the jurisdiction in which you reside, and you must agree to our Terms of Use. Oh yeah, and you must have a compatible device to redeem the Gold (sorry iPhoners).

Check, and check.

Who else will be in Vegas for CES and AVN in January? Holla atcha app store market!

This is pretty much spot on.

Dude, where are my ads?

Earlier this year when Mystic Game Development launched the uncensored version of their controversial app iBoobs in MiKandi, they shared something very interesting with us- although Google allowed them to keep their free app in the Android Market, Admob stopped serving ads to the application. Any developer will tell you that ad support is vital if you intend to distribute free apps. By blocking iBoobs Uncensored and cutting ads to the ad supported free version of iBoobs, Google has essentially cut all revenue streams for the app in the official Android Market. Not cool.

Many developers express their concerns to us over the use of mobile ad-networks in their adult applications. Unclear guidelines of acceptable content makes developers worry about suddenly losing their ad support. So where is an adult app developer to turn? It’s important to MiKandi that our registered developers have all the tools they need for success. So we’ve been working hard to find our developers the very best adult friendly ad network. We’re happy to say we’ve found a solution for you.

Announcing MiKandi’s partnership with Reporo

Reporo is one of the world’s fastest growing mobile ad networks and is exclusively focusedon the adult sector. More than 300 advertisers buy CPC campaigns via local language territory managers inLatin America, US, Japan, Europe and SE Asia, and these mobile adult campaigns are targeted in over 40countries. And now they’re available to MiKandi developers!

MiKandi developers can join the largest adult mobile ad network by logging into developer.mikandi.com. (Not a MiKandi developer? Register your free account today.) After registering with the Reporo system from within the developer dashboard, download the Reporo ad serving SDK. Developers can monitor earnings, impression volumes, CTRs and CPMs within the MiKandi developerdashboard. Developers retain 60% of all revenue generated by their applications. “Reporo serves almost 7bn ads per month for our web and app publishers and the number keeps on growing. Their revenues areincreasing month on month,” shares Reporo’s Global Publishing Manager, Ben Keirle. “This partnership allows a mutually beneficial opportunity to deliver higher revenues for all.”

Helping developers make money

Developers rely on three models of monetizing applications- pay per download, in-app purchases, and free,ad-supported applications. Prior to MiKandi, developers of adult applications were shut out of all threemodels. In November of 2010, when MiKandi launched its virtual currency, dubbed MiKandi Gold,developers finally had the power to sell their adult apps for the first time. Shortly after, MiKandi releasedits in-app billing API, which allows developers to up-sell additional content within applications. MiKandi’spartnership with Reporo rounds out the third component of monetization, bringing an adult-focused adnetwork into the fold.

“It became clear to us that we needed a solution for our developers that delivered relevantads to their adult apps with transparent guidelines,” explains MiKandi president Jesse Adams. “We foundthat Reporo’s flexible system integration and innovative approach to delivering adult ads offers exactlywhat MiKandi and our developers need.”

from Apple.com

We’ve very sad and shocked to learn today that Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman, and former CEO of Apple Inc. has passed away. Though we didn’t see eye to eye on some issues, we have and always have had the utmost respect for the truly revolutionary and innovative entrepreneur. Through his vision, Jobs helped change the way we connect with each other, how we use technology, and how we consume digital entertainment.

At MiKandi, we jokingly called Steve Jobs Uncle Steve. You know the tough uncle that was always kinda mean to you, but because he was you got a little tougher? That. In all honesty, if we had a chance to meet him, we’d probably forget to question his “moral responsibility“, and instead ask for a group photo. Is our fanboy showing?

A quote from Steve Job’s 2005 Stanford commencement speech:

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

After death, you continue to inspire us and countless others. We’ll miss shadowboxing with you, Uncle Steve.

Rest in peace.

- MiKandi Team

We’re feeling kinky. It might have something to do with the hot dream we had last night. But more likely has to do with having the greatest job in the world – developing an adult app market!

Tell us the craziest place you’ve browsed adult apps on the MiKandi App Market. Best answer gets 300 Gold to their MiKandi account.

You’ve got to have an Android with MiKandi installed to win. Sorry, iPhone users and AT&T customers.  =/

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