July 7, 2008 – Issue No. 1

Livescribe Penlet SDK Pre-Release Now Available

To help developers get an early preview of our Livescribe Penlet SDK, we’re providing a pre-release version of the SDK. The Livescribe Penlet SDK will be the first phase in the release of our full Livescribe Platform SDK.

The pre-release Penlet SDK is available for
download from the Livescribe Developer Zone.
Click here for the SDK

This pre-release of the SDK includes the Livescribe Pulse smartpen API, utilities, documentation and sample applications. Currently, the Livescribe Penlet SDK is compatible only with Windows operating systems.

We welcome your feedback and feature requests. Please share your comments on our Developer Forums and watch for announcements on upcoming pre-releases of our SDK.


Announcements

Welcome To Livescribe's First Developer Newsletter!

We’ll be sending out this newsletter every month highlighting what’s going on in our Developer Community. In addition, be sure to check the Developer Forums frequently for late-breaking news and announcements—a lot can happen between emails!

Thanks to all of you Java developers who have expressed interest in our developer program. The response has been phenomenal, and we’re really excited about the growth of Livescribe’s Developer Community. We hope you use this pre-release as an opportunity to give us feedback and tell us what features you’d like to see in our developer tools suite.

Greetings from the Livescribe Developer Program Team

We wanted to introduce you to the Livescribe team supporting you. On the front lines are Michael Knopp, Pen Applications and Developer Support, and Joyce Morrell, Director, Developer Programs. We’ve been working with developers for many years and have a strong background in building developer communities around innovative platforms.

We also have a great team of engineers, marketing and business folks working with us to support our developer community.

We encourage your input and feedback. Drop us a line on the Developer Forums.

Thanks for joining our Livescribe Developer Community! Let’s see what we can make.

News

Pulse Smartpen Available In Retail Outlets

This summer, the Pulse smartpen will be making its debut at a store near you.

Amazon.com will sell the Pulse smartpen, dot paper, and accessories beginning July 1.

Target will carry the Pulse smartpen, dot paper, and accessories in stores nationwide and through Target.com beginning July 13.

This fall, college students can pick up the Pulse smartpen, dot paper, and accessories in select university bookstores and computer stores through The Douglas Stewart Company.

As always, the Pulse smartpen and accessories are available for purchase at www.livescribe.com


JavaOne Conference 2008 Highlights


Following Jim’s demonstration, a crowd of attendees literally rose from their seats and packed our Show Device kiosk to purchase their own Pulse smartpen

It started out with an invitation from Sun to participate in JavaOne 2008 just a couple of months before the show. It turned out to be much more.

To start things off, Livescribe won a coveted Duke’s Choice Award in the mobile device category.

The entire week of the show, Java developers packed our booths to experience the Pulse smartpen and learn more about the development opportunities.

In addition, our Developer Competition gave JavaOne developers a sneak peek at our Java API and early development tools. In just 48 hours, developers created award-winning Pulse smartpen applications using our tools.

Finally, on the final day of the conference, Livescribe CEO Jim Marggraff participated in James Gosling’s keynote speech. Following Jim’s demonstration, hundreds of attendees left their seats and stood in long, snaking lines to purchase their own Pulse smartpens at our Show Device kiosk.

We are incredibly excited to see the response of the Java developer community to developing for the Livescribe Platform.