Featured App: Femjoy Pure Nude Art

June 15, 2011 by 5 Comments

Femjoy

Pure Nude Art

Experience the difference. Discover why Femjoy is the World’s most popular pure nude art site. The most stunning women in the world for your FULL viewing pleasure!

This app is made exclusively for Android and offers the highest quality pure nude erotic videos and images, games, and Femjoy contests and awards. For current Femjoy members, this app offers additional ways to interact and earn rewards from your favorite Pure Nude Art brand.

Features Include:

The Best of Femjoy Content

  • 400+ Images
  • 5 Premium Videos
  • Search by Model
  • Save to Favorites
  • Additional content available for in-app purchase with MiKandi Gold*
  • New Content Added Weekly

Femjoy Games

  • 30 Unlockable Femjoy Badges: Unlock certain badges for Femjoy prizes!
  • Erotic Photo Challenge Game: This highly erotic, time-based photo game will test your memory and concentration. :)
  • Weekly Contest: Every week a new mystery model will be presented. You must guess the model’s correct first name to be entered into the Femjoy weekly sweepstakes to earn free content.

*Current Femjoy Members will soon be able to link their account. To become a member go to www.femjoy.com.

Price: 299 Gold (limited time introductory offer)

Requirements: Android 1.6+

Get the app in MiKandi today!

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FEMJOY.com unveils official Android app, available in MiKandi

June 15, 2011 by 1 Comment

Leading pure nude art site FEMJOY.com has announced the release of its official Android app in the MiKandi Adult App Market. The application takes advantage of winning game mechanics to offer a more rewarding and engaging experience.

Offering an arousing mixture of art and erotica, the application pulls from FEMJOY.com‘s pool of 750 models, 180 contributing artists, HD photos and videos, and daily updates. The app utilizes MiKandi’s in-app billing API, allowing customers to unlock premium photosets and videos on demand.

The FEMJOY App rewards its users with a wide variety of FEMJOY virtual badges and prizes. These badges and prizes are earned by browsing, purchasing and participating in games such as a weekly mystery model contest or a time-based Photo Challenge game. FEMJOY plans to add more fun ways for fans to interact with the brand based on user feedback.

Shares MiKandi co-founder Jennifer McEwen:

FEMJOY’s official application is unlike anything else in the MiKandi App Market- gorgeous women with supermodel looks, superb photography, and a reward based, immersive experience.We’re thrilled to see FEMJOY take the lead in embracing these new engagement methods to excite and motivate new customers.

Customers can purchase the application in the MiKandi App Market for a limited-time, introductory offer of 299 Gold (roughly $3 USD). Get the app today.

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Help us help you promote your apps

May 29, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Hey devs, have you got an adult app in MiKandi that needs some pimpin’ out? If you’ve got a hot app, we’re here to help! MiKandi has a Featured app list that we update every Monday evening (PST). If you’ve got a quality app that would do well there, send us an email, tweet, or leave us a post on our Facebook page. There are 1000+ adult apps in the MiKandi adult app market, so we may accidentally overlook yours. Don’t take it personal, just email us and we’ll give it a look-see.

On top of that, every Friday MiKandi sends out an App of the Week notification. These notifications are delivered to our over 400,000+ app store installs. (Don’t want notifications? You can turn them off by tabbing over to MiAccount> Settings.)

How do we determine what apps we want to promote? Below is a brief guideline of what we look for. If you feel your app is a good match, we want to hear about it.

Go Native

MiKandi customers come here looking for adult mobile apps, not mobile sites. So we want to promote native adult-themed applications. To us, a mobile site just isn’t all that interesting. But if you’ve got one that can change our minds, then we’re up for the challenge. ;)

Be Different

Think outside the content viewer box. True, a lot of apps we promote are video or photo viewers, but what really gets our attention is something a little different. Social, games, live chat- we want more! If you’ve got a content viewer, but it has some kick-ass, unique features, let us know.

Be Cohesive

MiKandi is building a community of adults enjoying a unique experience around adult mobile communication. There is no other market quite like it and your participation in the community only makes it stronger. The more you use the tools we provide (direct inward linking, MiKandi Gold, in-app billing API), the stronger you make our family.

Be Real

List an email address that you use, a website that’s yours, answer support inquires. This is the era of social media- if you’re not readily available to your customers, it’s a red flag. So please, be real. Google.com is not your website. We ain’t dumb.

Got a media kit?

A media kit makes it that much easier to help us promote your app. If you’ve got a video, more screenshots, some press releases, and quotes, please forward it to us.  While you’re at it, add us to your media contact list and let us know whenever you release a new feature, release more apps, or have some big news. Got contracted to develop an app for a hot adult studio? Dude! We want to know!

Not a MiKandi Developer?

MiKandi is the app market that treats adults as adults, and we see ourselves as your partner. That’s why we’re continuously building tools to help you distribute and market the adult apps that your customers want. Can’t find a payment processor that will let you sell adult content? We built that. Want to send customers directly to your app in an app market? We built that. Want to up-sell content with in-app billing? We built that too.

Join our family at developer.mikandi.com today. We look forward to seeing your adult apps in our market!

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Loky PLUS keeps your private life private

May 29, 2011 by 1 Comment

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In Not So Good News for Snoopy People but in Great News for People with Secrets, Loky PLUS (pronounced low-key) has set up shop in the adult app market, MiKandi. If you’ve got a few secrets you’d like to keep.. well, secret, then you need Loky PLUS my friend. The app made headlines for helping customers become the stealthier James Bond versions of themselves.

The app sets up a secure and hidden area on your device where you can hide contacts, SMS, MMS, photos, and files. Any texts to and from those in your Loky contact list are automatically redirected to avoid your device’s regular messaging app altogether. With Locky PLUS, you can manage more than one account- for you extra stealthy lot. The best part is Loky has no icon, so there’s no dead giveaway on your device that you’ve got something to hide. And if you need to close the app in a hurry, just shake vigorously. MiKandians should be used to that motion. ;)

Says Eoghan Gallagher, Marketing Manager of Loky,

Everyone has personal, financial and other private information they need to keep to themselves for their own benefit or for their friends and family. With Loky, these files and contacts will be as secure as if they had been locked in a safe. Loky apps are also ideal for squirreling away business confidences as well as private secrets.  They are very useful tools with an exceptional range of capabilities.

Currently Loky PLUS doesn’t hide apks, but we’re told developers are working on it.

You can find Loky PLUS in MiKandi, the only app market that treats adults as adults. Want to go to there?

Stay up-to-date on Loky news by following them on Twitter @LokyApp
Don’t forget to follow us, too @MiKandiStore

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AT&T allows third party apps on select devices

May 16, 2011 by 3 Comments

AT&T Android customers, your cries have been heard! Last week we learned that AT&T opened the Infuse 4G to third party apps, and this week it appears the carrier has added more devices to its Unknown Sources OK roster. This mean those of you with an HTC Inspire 4G, Aria, or Samsung Captivate will be able to download the Amazon Appstore, and more importantly, the MiKandi App Market!

Back in March, GeekWire.com asked MiKandi co-founders Jesse Adams and Jennifer McEwen for their thoughts on AT&T’s third party app restriction. Adams had this to say,

We’ve had a lot of problems with AT&T because they don’t allow third-party apps (outside of the Android Marketplace). We get a lot of complaints from customers who are thinking Android is awesome, it’s open, very cool, bought an Android just because they thought they could get adult apps, and they send us an email asking why it doesn’t work, and we have to let them know it’s because AT&T doesn’t allow it. So when Amazon has the exclusive on an app like Angry Birds Rio that everyone loves, AT&T is going to have to reconsider the blocking of third-party apps.

We’re very happy to see that AT&T is listening to their customers and is taking steps to offer customers more freedom and control over their devices. As McEwen puts it,

What’s important is that companies need to learn to treat customers as adults, and not restrict them out of fear of upsetting another group. That’s the approach we like to take with customers. We want to treat you as adults.

Much props to Android Central for breaking the news. Even bigger props to AT&T for treating its customers as adults!

 

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AT&T to allow third party apps on Android devices

May 9, 2011 by 1 Comment

Glad you two worked it out, I'll go ahead and check off this box now. kthxbai

It looks like a line in our Like a G6 parody I Got Kandi might soon be defunct because AT&T has moved forward on its plans to soften its restrictions on third party apps. So long sideloading! Well, at least for Infuse 4G customers.

The Infuse is the first Android based AT&T device that gives users access to the most coveted ‘Unknown Sources’ checkbox, allowing customers to download and install apps outside the Android Market. The carrier has long prohibited third party apps but the recent launch of the Amazon Appstore clearly forced AT&T to re-evaluate that restriction. “AT&T plans to offer the Amazon application store for Android smartphones, and we’re working to give our Android customers access to third party application stores,” the operator said in a statement last month. “This requires updates to our systems and finalizing arrangements with Amazon.”

This serves as promising news given the recent announcement of AT&T’s acquisition of Android friendly T Mobile. Many customers and developers shared valid concerns over whether or not the acquisition would affect access to and distribution of third party applications.

Currently most AT&T Android devices still restrict third party apps. For those customers, you can sideload apps onto your device with the help of Android Central’s Sideload Wonder Machine- no rooting required. Those of you with rooted Androids can now get the full MiKandi experience by downloading and installing premium adult apps from directly in the mobile app market- no sideloading necessary.

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MiKandi releases In-App Billing on Android

March 28, 2011 by 1 Comment

When Google announced on March 24 that they intend to launch full in-app billing support this week, we knew we wouldn’t be getting much sleep over the weekend. We’ve been chained to our desks, ‘coding like we’re dumb’, in an effort to beat Goliath to the punch.

We’re excited and relieved to announce that this morning MiKandi launched full in-app billing support for our registered developers. The API, which has been in beta since New Year’s, utilizes our virtual currency MiKandi Gold, and works on the device whether MiKandi is installed or not.

After the product went live, one of our developers had this to say:

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In-app billing has been long anticipated by the Android developer community. Customers are voting with their dollars on other mobile platforms, indicating that in-app billing is crucial to an app developer’s quiver of revenue tools. As part of the launch, PinkTV is releasing its own app which integrates MiKandi’s latest API (Get the PinkTV VOD app today). Bryan Clinger of PinkTV shares,

At PinkTV, we’ve been very excited about in-app billing because we know that our customers want a taste before they buy. This allows us to enable taste tests in a seamless manner and MiKandi’s speed in launching this is impressive, considering how long it’s taken other app platform providers.

Industry analysts Juniper Research forecast that revenues from in-app/in-game purchases will overtake the traditional pay-per-download model as the primary source of monetization by 2013. “At MiKandi, we believe that our job is to make developers money and to make customers happy. In-app billing satisfies both of these goals, particularly in the adult space,” says MiKandi co-founder and president Jesse Adams.

With over 500,000 apps downloaded per month, MiKandi is confident that in-app billing will provide a substantial boost to the earnings power of its 1,300 developers. Existing MiKandi developers are invited to begin integrating the API immediately. New developers can register for a free MiKandi developer account at http://developer.mikandi.com.


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MiKandi interview with GeekWire.com

March 23, 2011 by 1 Comment

This week, MiKandi co-founders Jesse Adams and Jennifer McEwen had a conversation with GeekWire.com about our app market, the iBoobs controversy, pornography and Apple, the launch of the Amazon Appstore, AT&T’s acquisitions of TMobile and what we think that means for AT&T Android customers.

Below are some highlights:

Q: Most of the stores ban adult apps, including the new Amazon Appstore. It’s an interesting philosophical discussion. Is it a good thing or a bad thing that the major platforms restrict pornography?

Adams: The great thing about Android is that even if Amazon doesn’t want to sell adult content, the Android Marketplace doesn’t want to sell it, at least the platform allows third-party stores to sell more adult experiences. That’s the big difference. Your phone is very personal. It’s going to be the way most adults connect to the world, over any other device very soon. Even if the other app stores start to offer it, developers really choose app stores as partners, not just as an app store operator. There’s other things they’re looking for more than just being able to sell adult content — partners that will promote and market the apps, and not just treat it as a back alleyway store like adult novelty shops were for a very long time.

Q: You were the focus of a veiled comment from Steve Jobs — he referred to the fact that on Android there is even a porn app store. That was not a good thing in his mind. Was his comment a good or bad thing for you?

McEwen: Oh, that was an awesome thing. We got 10,000 downloads of our app store in 12 hours that day. It was amazing. We couldn’t believe our luck. Also, it made us a conversation starter for the argument between an open OS and a closed OS. We’re the extreme testament of what you can do, and the freedom that you get. We are actually very proud to be part of that.

Mosey on over to GeekWire.com for the full article.

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Introducing the world’s first app MARKET for adults

March 23, 2011 by 5 Comments

Last week, Apple hit yours truly with a cease and desist over our use of the term App Store. And just this week, Apple hit Amazon suit over their use of the term “Appstore” (too close to “app” space “store” for Apple’s tastes). Amazon gave Apple the proverbial finger and launched the Amazon Appstore this week any way.

Our pockets aren’t as deep as Amazon’s (although you can help us out with that by using your MiKandi Gold to buy some apps), so today we’re introducing you to MiKandi- the world’s first app market for adults.

Microsoft is currently challenging Apple’s trademark of the term. While  it’s not worth it for us to fight Apple’s legal team over this by ourselves, perhaps we can file an amicus brief to Microsoft’s case.

Microsoft, Amazon- you know how to reach us. ;)

Hollatcha app market!

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Increase your app revenue with in app purchases

March 21, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Last week, when it was announced that the controversial app iBoobs was released in MiKandi, we also hinted to another mobile milestone- that the adult app store was beta testing its In-App Billing API. Very impressive (if we do say so ourselves) considering we’ve only had paid app support live since Thanksgiving Day November 2010.  

In-App Billing: A Monetization Necessity

In-app billing is a method of monetization that allows developers to sell additional content within the application, such as video clips or game levels. By allowing customers to purchase content within the app, the developer effectively shortens the path to purchase, and facilitates “impulse buying.”

Unlike the traditional pay-per-download model (Paid Apps), the in-app model provides great benefits to both customers and developers. In fact, it is so preferred by both parties that Juniper Research forecasts that revenues from in-game/app purchases will overtake the traditional pay-per-download model by 2013.

All that aside, why should you consider an In App model?

Reason 1: Freemium model lets the customer value the product before buying.

With traditional payment models, the purchase flow is clear. See an app, read about an app, buy an app. But nowhere does the customer have a chance to realize the value of the app. With a freemium model, developers can offer a free app with limited access. With nothing to lose, the customer can download the product, kick the tires, and take it on a test drive. During this time, the customer can realize the value, and develop trust. Value and trust lead to purchases. Good purchases strengthen trust, which in turn creates loyalty.

Offer customers free apps as a means to cross-sell, or up-sell customers to a variety of paid content and services later in the journey.

If your adult app allows customers to purchase content a la carte, then guess what? You’re giving your customer the power to personalize your app specific to his or her tastes.  Nice work!

Reason 2: In-App gives developers greater pricing control.

Of course you don’t have to offer your app for free and upsell within. There is still value in selling your app for discounted price, and upselling more content once inside.  Currently, other app stores require developers to charge at least $0.99 USD for in-app goods. But if a customer bought, say, a gaming app for $0.99, he or she might not be keen on buying a virtual gun for $0.99 too. This lack of pricing flexibility warps the economic value of the dollar in the application. Unlike other mainstream app stores, MiKandi offers a virtual currency platform in which customers purchase bundles of gold at a time that can then be distributed over a variety of apps and in-app items throughout the store.  So this means you have the power to set virtually any price for your in-app goods, from as low as $0.01 to $50.00 USD.

Reason 3: It’s just easier.

We all love easy. Easy is good. And letting consumers get more goods without having to leave your app is easy peasy lemon squeezy.  With in-app billing, the developer can offer payment at the optimal time of usage or at the point of desire, and maximizes conversion. And if the flow is simple and quick, the customers are happy.

Want to give us a hand?

As announced, MiKandi is beta testing our In-App Billing API. If you’re a registered MiKandi developer (You’re not? Register today! It’s free.), and would like to help us test, send us an email at developer{at}mikandi{dot}com, subject In-App Beta Testing.

 

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