Thanks to everyone’s help in voting for Flurry in the Mobile Village MobileStar awards, we received a Silver Star in the mobile email category!

Considering the size of the other companies in the category, we’re excited to have done so well. As far as we can tell, we’re outnumbered over 10:1 by most of them.

We look forward to taking the Gold next year. Thanks again for your support!

Thanks to the enormous efforts of our operations team here at Flurry we have finally moved into our new colocation facility in Sunnyvale, CA. You can catch a look at the new setup there on the right.

It’s not much to look at but it’s a big deal for us. Our old system was having trouble keeping up with the growth of Flurry, but this new setup promises to be faster and scale much more efficiently as we continue to grow.

What does this mean for you? First, the system should be faster since we’ve been able to distribute the load more evenly. Secondly, it’s no longer subject to the occasional power outage here in San Francisco so we’ll avoid any downtime.

Overall, we’re really excited about our new setup. This should be a great precursor to some of the cool new services we’ll be rolling out in the near future.

We have a lot of fun working here at Flurry, but sometimes we really impress ourselves. Today we decided to give Colin, our head ops guy, a surprise when he got back from lunch. The pictures below are what used to be his cube:

Colin was amused but got a look in his eye that let me know payback is coming. Suffice to say, I fully expect to come in next week and find my desk buried under 2 tons of Styrofoam peanuts (or something similar). Even so, it was well worth it.

We’re happy to report that Flurry has been nominated for a MobileVillage Mobile Star Award! We were nominated in the Mobile Communications division which includes consumer mobile email services among others.

The award itself is decided based on public voting, so we can use your help! To vote, go to the MobileVillage awards site and select “Vote Here“. You do need to be a subscriber to their free Go Mobile newsletter, so if you’re not you can quickly sign up on the site.

Your vote is appreciated!

If you were watching CNN last week, you may have noticed that they mentioned Flurry! The segment in question was during the latest episode of Open House, a show designed to save you money, that discussed cheaper alternatives to the iPhone. When they got to talking about ways to get iPhone functions on your current phone, they recommended Flurry for e-mail. To quote Sasha Segan, a reporter from PC Magazine:

SEGAN: Well, with a lot of mainstream phones — for instance, this AT&T Motorola RAZR, which we have here, you can download free software. For instance, something called Nutsy (ph), which lets you get your iTunes, or MobileCast, or flurry, which lets you get your e- mail, that — those are free programs that will give your ordinary phone a lot of the same features as the iPhone. You can find reviews of them and tips on our Web site, pcmag.com. From CNN.com

You can view the entire clip on the CNN website here. Thanks to everyone who sent us the link. If you see Flurry in the news, please let us know!

I’m happy to announce we will be participating in a major recruiting event here in San Francisco on July 5th. Together with some other hot start up companies we’ll be renting out the Metreon for a networking/recruiting event followed by a free showing of the new Transformers Movie. This is all organized by DFJ who we are lucky enough to have as investors in Flurry.

If you’re a web developer or software engineer and are interested in working for Flurry, meeting us in person or seeing the movie, please RSVP today!

Our local CBS news affiliate (KPIX San Francisco) ran a story about hot free services including Flurry! It comes complete with a video of someone walking down the street on a mobile phone.

They used a screenshot of an old version of our website, but we’re not complaining. It still looks great!

Check out the video of the story here.

We just came across an article in the Wall St. Journal, published yesterday, entitled “Chinese Investors Crunching Numbers Are Glad to See 8s” (subscription required for online access). It details the importance of the number 8 in Chinese numerology which associates the number with prosperity. The belief in the number 8 is so strong that the Beijing Olympics were scheduled to start on 8/8/08.

So, why are we interested in 8s? As we previously announced, we were named as #88 in the Top 100 Products of 2007 by PC World magazine. According to Chinese numerology, this means we’re in position for double prosperity! It turns out to be the luckiest position in the list.

Everyone on the Flurry team is now busy buying lottery tickets and rooting for our favorite sports teams to try and harness our new found luck. If you have had a lucky experience using Flurry - let us know! Hopefully this stroke of luck will help all of us.

We’re excited to report that Flurry has been named one of the top 100 products of 2007 by PC World! Flurry clocked in at number 88, which makes it one of the few mobile services to make the list. We’ve been working hard to improve Flurry over the past year and are elated to see all that hard work recognized by a magazine like PC World. You can see the PC World review of Flurry here.

Other mobile winners include Google’s Maps for Mobile and SlingMedia’s Sling Player Mobile which puts Flurry in some great company. What came in at number 1? Google’s Apps Premier Edition which threatens to challenge Microsoft’s virtual monopoly on office applications.

Thanks to everyone in the Flurry community that has helped us improve the product and make it the award winning service it is today. We have some exciting stuff in the works that should make it even better, and we look forward to some great upgrades in the next few months. In the meantime, we appreciate all of your feedback so keep it coming!

If you have your own blog, chances are that you’re using FeedBurner to help you manage your RSS feed. If you’re not familiar with FeedBurner, it’s a free service that provides a wide variety of tools to help you track and customize your feed for any of your RSS Subscribers.

One of the best tools they offer are FeedFlares. These are links inserted at the end of each RSS feed item that allow your readers to take some kind of action - Email the article to a friend, bookmark it for later, etc. An example of what this looks like is below:

We’re happy to now offer a Flurry FeedFlare for you to help your readers subscribe to your feed on their mobile phone. The Flare File is available here:

http://blog.flurry.com/flurry.xml

Just log into your FeedBurner account, go to Optimize, select FeedFlares and put that URL into the Add New Flare section. After you’ve added the flare, click the checkbox to activate it and save. As soon as you do that, FeedBurner will offer an option to “Subscribe on your phone” at the end of every article you publish. If you’d like to see it in action, check out the Flurryblog FeedBurner feed here.

It’s a quick and simple way to help your readers know that your blog is available whereever they go.

We’re excited to keep rolling out easy ways for you to help you mobilize your life. If you have any ideas for similar features, please let us know!