If one had to figure two common things amongst technology companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Twitter, what would that be ?

• All of them are successful, just booming at the moment
• They are among the hottest companies in the eyes of third party developer community

From freelancing coders to web development companies, the latest formula for squeezing out revenues by utilizing their existing programming skills is to build a platform centric/web application using the API of the platform provider and making it a hot seller among the millions of users on that platform.

Take the case of App Store for millions of iPhone users, Android Market for millions of Android phone users, Facebook apps for Facebook users or Twitter apps for twitter users, the app developer community has literally propelled these platforms and opened up plenty of revenue streams for the platform owners as well.

And developers are building Out-of-the-box applications on various platforms. It is often surprising yet interesting to explore amazing applications on various platforms. For instance, you can catch hold of some utility android apps here and Twitter apps here.

Many developers are innovative enough as they carve out sensible business avenues out of these social platforms. Take the case of Twitter app called TweetyJobs. The application has been developed by San Francisco Web Design Company, Freshout which has created a system for employers and job seekers to mine into Twitter data stream in an easy way and get the most relevant people existent on Twitter for the required job. Although Freshout, just like other development firms, does offer plenty of other custom web development services, Twitter or any other platform’s apps are no prerogative of web development companies only. Many freelancers have been able to single-handedly develop and made a gold-rush out of Twitter apps or Android apps in no time. And freelancers smartly pick tips and development ideas from resources like Web design tips , makeuseof.com amongst other available resources.

Epitomizing the overall assertion, it has now become an utmost priority for any platform owner in the business of Technology to successfully attract developer community and make it work hard for them. The one who fails to attract those Independent geeky birds would surely find it tough to sail through the troughs of business cycle.

Timely surprises seem to be an integral part of The Cult of Android now. At one side, we keep hearing about product launches of latest android handsets and on other side, the number of android apps keep on piling up within App Market.

But today, there’s something to share that’s probably been attempted for the first time in the short history of world of mobile apps. All android fanatics have something to cheer about. They now have privilege to download an all exclusive ‘Adults Only’ App store called Mikandi, which is NOT available for iPhone, Symbian and other popular mobile platforms at the moment.

As the App store is ‘Adults Only’, the apps are definitely going to be ‘A Rated’ and will not face any approval process before becoming a part of Mikandi. Mikandi will give third party developers, a platform to freely deliver and market their adult apps without bothering about approval procedures and similar stuff.

On the other side, users will be required to download Mikandi App store on their smartphones, after which they will be able to access and download free and paid apps under Mikandi App Store.

One big reason why Mikandi has landed on Android and not iPhone is because of the stringent app approval procedures that iPhone lets every app pass through. Looking at the past treatment of Apple with 18+ apps, adult app developers are hardly interested in spending time and money on pornish app development.

On a darker side, as users need to download Mikandi app store on their android phones explicitly, it will be very tough for Mikandi to manage a large userbase out of the android population, which would result in poor interest from app developer’s point of view. We doubt if Mikandi will really take off that well but who knows…

Anyways, adult stuff lovers now have a strong reason to buy an android phone, isn’t it !

Here’s an introductory video of Mikandi. Take a look !

According to a recent study by Skyhook Wireless, a large majority(over 80%) of  Third party app developer community feels dissatisfied with the current state of Android Market, making it difficult for them to keep investing time and money in building apps for Android platform.

Such an analysis brings no surprises to us as we ourselves wrote about the inefficiencies of Android Market and ways by which Google can cover up the pot holes and make things better for Android Marketplace. According to the survey, one good thing about Android that came out is that most of the developers are very much excited about Android as an open platform and want to keep building apps for it. The current problem with developers is only the weak financial returns as a result of poor Android app download volume in case of most of the app developers.

Most often, android app download comparisons are made with App Store but the developer community isn’t accounting the fact that App Store entertains tens of millions of iPhone user demands, which isn’t the case with newer competitor, Android. The volume sales for Android apps will certainly take more time as the Android userbase is on the verge of explosion(but not exploded yet).

Year 2010 has tens of android phones lined up for launch and things will only get tough for iPhone to breathe. Developers who’re little frustrated with the current Android Market very well know about the bright scope of Android and can’t afford to leave it, just because their returns aren’t encouraging at the moment.

On one side, there’s a populated App Store from Apple that restricts apps from entering App Store every now and then, which leaves developers with too little options left and go seek early bird opportunities in Android Marketplace.

With spectacular response to Motorola Droid, the market sentiments for the future of Android have only become stronger. One thing that’s definitely needed for Android now is to enhance Android Marketplace and make it as lucrative place for developers as App Store.