In the December issue of Popular Science AIR was awarded a “best of what’s new 2008”, and yesterday they came by to actually give the team the award. We’ve got a lot of Popular Science readers on the team, so it was a lot of fun to meet some folks from the magazine — and see Adobe AIR in print. Here’s Ed Rowe receiving the award from Wendi Berger, Associate Publisher:

Like many of you, we work on a distributed team -- along with Ed are a bunch of members of the AIR team in San Francisco and the screen in the background includes has some folks in San Jose. Folks in Romania and India weren’t able to make it to the event, but have also been key to AIR's success this year.

On screen (l. to r., t. to b.):
Mas Kagita, Juan Gutierrez, Jose Wong, Hitomi Kudo, Ted Zeng, Vincent Lee, Kevin Chow, Eric Simenel Sharon Chau, Ann Garrido-Nakagawa, Lawrence Lai, Frank Stokes-Guinan

In front:
Ethan Malasky, John Graziano, Chris Thilgen, Kiran Maiya, Steve Minns, Michael Pruett, Alex Mohr, Jason Williams, Jeff Swartz, Rob Christensen, Alex Alvarez, Jason Graham, Erica Norton, David Knight, Arno Gourdol, Paul Robertson, Wendi Berger, Alex MacDonald, Doug Rapp, Aaron Filner, Ed
Rowe, Chris Brichford, Adrian Ludwig

Not pictured:

California Team: Oliver Goldman, Arjun Urs, Brent Rosenquist, Christian Cantrell, Daniel Valencia, Stan Switzer, Shad Ahmad, Lisa Chao, Subha Subramanian, Steve Horvath, Joe Ward,

Romania Team: Alexandru Costin, Dragos Georgita, Raul-Nicolae Hudea, Alexandru Chiculita, Marius-Andrei Loana, Mirela Budaes, Horia-losif Olaru, Mihnea-Vlad Ovidenie, Tudor Muscalu

India Team: Aniket Ray, Ashutosh J Sharma, Gaurav Khurana, Romil Mittal, Priyank Choudhury, Damanjit Singh, Rahul Rohilla, Rohit Kewlani, Srijesh Kumar, Syed Mohd Mehadi, Sundeep Maithani