Wow! That was fast, AppTag is now 20% funded in a touch over 48 hours. It took jaja 14 days to get to the same stage. From the feedback I am getting there are a lot of imaginative people out there wanting to write some amazing apps! There are even more who want a quality toy with great gameplay for their kids and themselves.

Here’s a chart from Kickstarter

Got some love from mashable this morning.

In fact it was a pretty glowing critigue of our toy vs the Hasbro product!

Its nice for a seasoned reporter to take a closer look at our toy and compare it favorably to a similar attempt from a huge toy company!

Read the article her: AppTag compared to Lazer tag

Here’s our video too:

Great article in The Australian Newspaper about my business this morning!

Due to their pay wall, you’ll need to do a search on Google to read the whole thing, click here to open a google searchthen click the link in search results. Going into The Australian from Google unlocks the pay wall.

Jon Atherton with an AppTag Laser Blaster

Nice write up in PopSci on the jaja pressure sensitive stylus

A few blogs have run some stories about jaja now and I’m getting a few interview requests. This has helped push us to 60% funding from 30% funding in just a few days!

I have finished building some of the prototypes with electronics so will demo that as soon as I get an app working in the next day or so. Thanks to our backers it looks like we’ll reach our goal.
For some updates on jaja check out Jon Atherton profile at Kickstarter

Kickstarter profile for Jon Atherton

Jon Atherton is the creator of Wobble for iPhone, plus many more iOS and Android apps. Please contact Jon for assistance with iOS software development.

Jon also designed Blabr for iPhone. The team is working on Concierge, pinFM and several other innovative ideas!

Here’s a link to Jon Atherton on Facebook I’ll only friend people I know, so if I don’t know you yet it’s probably better to do that first ! 

Jon Atherton’s profile is here, I have a Google Profile too at Jon Atherton I’m not sure why just yet…

We’re also finally getting the family website up too, you can find a bit more information about Jon Atherton here.

Jon Atherton business Twitter account or at my private twitter account: Jon Atherton private twitter account

I maintain the Jon Atherton blog a bit more regularly

Wobble iBoobs has been cruising along very nicely for over two years now, with well over a million installs and income of more than $500,000 in that time.

We’ve been working on some other projects but have now decided to bring Wobble up to date, with a big list of improvements.

Last year we launched 3D and the HD versions which saw a large number of downloads and updates, for our next trick we’re adding all the features which users have ever suggested plus some innovative new ideas and control functions that are pretty entertaining.

It’s also time for a revamp, we’ve engaged IconFactory to give Wobble a bit of a tart up, and I think you’ll like what we have in store!

So stay tuned

About Me – Jonathan Atherton.

I thought I better put a Bio up about myself - riveting reading!

Jon Atherton was born in Brisbane , brought up mainly in Melbourne schooled at Wesley College and RMIT (briefly) in BioTech. Jon Atherton joined the Army reserve and then moved into the commando signals unit 126 Signal Squadron Special Forces.

After the Commando unit and some full time duty Jon Atherton decided to join the Regular Army and went to Royal Military College Duntroon in 1986, to be trained as an Officer, graduating as a lieutenant in 1987, he worked in Toowoomba (7Sig) and Brisbane (1 Sig + 4 Sig). Jon met his wife Janine in Brisbane and decided to leave the army and stay in Brisbane.

Jon Atherton Left the Army in 1991 and started his own business importing and distributing triathlon gear such as carbon wheels, bike frames and heart rate monitors. In 1995 he did some work for Microsoft via the MSN portal program and then moved into web software development. He sold what had become the bike business and concentrated on software development full-time.

In the late ’90′s he partnered with an old Army friend who managed the business development and management, whilst Jon focussed on the software engineering side of the business.  The new partnership grew into what would become a very large advertising and banking network working for businesses worldwide in the late ’90′s and early 2000′s. The pair dissolved their partnership in about 2004.

Jon Atherton then focussed on building a large property rental portfolio which he had started investing in in 1996. He was also involved in car racing – competing in Targa Tasmania, Rally Tasmania and Classic Adelaide – racing cars included Nissan GTR V-Spec N1, and Ferrari Challenge Stradale.

Jon’s has coached all 3 of his kids in sport including Soccer, AFL, Cricket and is currently an AFL coach at Wests Juniors. He has dabbled in software design and marketing of the Wobble iPhone Application, the marketing blog for Wobble and all the other Apps can be found here.

Jon Atherton’s interests include organic gardening, including vegetables and citrus trees plus of course the backyard chicken raising. Jon Atherton is also a very keen skier and plans to retire to a mountain, just as long as there are Barramundi present.

Jon Atherton now seems to spend most of his life inside an iOS device.

via Facebook | Jonathan Atherton.