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- Why do tech journalists get Rich Internet Applications so wrong?
- A lot of people are talking about Rich Internet Applications. At first people weren't really sold on creating really great experiences in the browser. Then Ajax came along and gave us a taste of how much better the web could actually be. Once people figured out that Ajax wasn't quite...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, JavaFX, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- I'm Joining Adobe
- I originally posted this on my personal blog, but I also wanted to post it here becuase while the audience overlaps a bit, I have more subscribers here. The big takeaway is that not much is going to change. I'm still going to be covering every technology equally. In fact,...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- Adobe Flex goes open source
- Adobe is announcing tonight that the Flex SDK will be open sourced under the Mozilla public license, the same license that they open sourced the Action Script VM under the Tamarin project. The move is just the latest in a trend of an increasingly open ecosystem around Flash and Flex...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Flex, Flash, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- Where are you Apple?
- Steve Borsch asks the question, is Apple in the same game as Adobe and Microsoft? As Adobe and Microsoft both move into higher end Rich Internet Applications Adobes Apollo and Microsofts Windows Presentation Foundation as well as move into each others territory by expanding the reach of the rich internet,...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Core Animation, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- The how and when of Adobe and Microsoft's Rich Internet Application technologies
- Now that Silverlight is being talked about, people seem to be comparing Apollo and Silverlight in the same posts. I think this stems from the fact that both are still alpha/beta and that the two technologies "cross the streams" into the other companies territory. For that they are significant, but...
- Tags: Windows Presentation Foundation, Expression Studio, Apollo, Ajax, Adobe, XBAP, WPF, Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, On2, Microsoft, Flex, Flash
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Monday morning hangover: Adobe and Microsoft
- Big announcements this morning that are prompting a lot of discussion on the web. One interesting thing is that the conversation about the Microsoft and Adobe announcement are all on the same Techmeme thread. Why? Because the announcements today are more signs that Microsoft and Adobe are on a collision...
- Tags: WFP/E, Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Flash, Apollo, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- Adobe takes the wraps off of Philo, brands it Adobe Media Player
- Adobe is making it official tonight by announcing the Adobe Media Player, an IPTV solution that will be deployed as an Apollo application and look to take on competitors like Joost and possibly even some of the channels on sites like YouTube and Brightcove. The new product...
- Tags: Rich Media, Rich Internet Applications, Flash, Apollo, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- On2 joins with Widevine for Flash Video DRM
- Earlier this week, Widevine made an announcement that they were offering DRM for Flash Video. Liz Gannes over at NewTeeVee had some information, and from what I could glean from the press release, it seemed like Widevine was simply offering a downloadable client that would somehow encrypt Flash Video files....
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Rich Media, Online Video, On2, Flash, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- How Adobe can overcome the issues around open sourcing the Flash Player
- This is a longer post, so youve been warned, but its something Ive spent a lot of time thinking about, so hopefully its valuable. Open Sourcing the Flash Player is a contentious issue. In some corners, the lack of open source causes Flash to be anathema to the web. Others...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Flash, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- RIA summit: "Unleashing the Power of Rich Internet Applications"
- Adobe and effectiveUI are putting on a free Rich Internet Application Summit on Thursday, May 3rd, in Denver that Ill be a speaker for. While its obviously targeted at Adobe products, its going to be one of the first conference Ive seen that focuses on the business side of Rich...
- Tags: Apollo, Adobe, Rich Internet Applications, Experience, effectiveUI, eBay, Design
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- Ray Ozzie on Adobe and software as a service
- Knowledge@Wharton just published an interview with Ray Ozzie in which he talks about Microsoft, software as a service, and a little bit on Adobe: In the docs and spreadsheets realm, I believe there are certain uses of spreadsheets in particular, where the sharing model [enabled by] using...
- Tags: WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Windows Presentation Foundation, WFP/E
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Adobe rolls out a new version of Flex.org
- Yesterday Adobe took the wraps off of a new, improved version of Flex.org. The site is Adobes developer portal for Flex. Its always been a bit more informal than the Flex Developer Center on the Adobe site, and prior to the redesign, it had languished a bit as a resource....
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Flex, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Adobe's Device Central makes rich mobile development easy
- With so much media push during the CS3 release this week, it may have been easy to miss the announcement for Adobes Device Central, an application and social community aimed at making the process for mobile development smoother. Developing mobile applications has been traditionally very difficult. Working with the variety...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Mobile-Web, Flash, Device Central, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-03-31
- Apollo and Flex videos now available on videos.onflex.org
- Ted Patrick and Mike Chambers have gotten together to showcase some of the Adobe technologies with video.onflex.org. Its a similar initiative to Microsofts Channel 9, which has been very popular, but this is more of a grassroots movement and not a company-wide initiative. For RIA fans, the new video...
- Tags: video, Apollo, Adobe Systems Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Why I don't think open source Flash is necessary
- Ted Leung has a thought provoking post titled "Adobe wants to be the Microsoft of the web". From what Ive been able to gather, Ted is a big open source advocate, so obviously he has some strong feelings about a platform that seems to be growing. For me, its absolutely...
- Tags: Adobe, Flash, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
- Adobe branching out into online software, plans online version of Photoshop
- CNET News has an article about Adobes CEO Bruce Chizen moving into the world of online software with a light version of Photoshop that would be ad supported. Craig also has some thoughts about what it might mean for him as a consumer. As the article notes, they showed what...
- Tags: Adobe, Flash, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-02-28
- Adobe Engage: Experience Design
- Mike Sundermeyer is up talking about design. He made a good point that design is not about making things flashy, but should be a rigorous problem solving exercise. He says there a series of myths about design. Myth 1 : More Features = More Value / New Thinking: Value...
- Tags: Adobe Engage, Design, Adobe, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Adobe Engage: Virtual Ubiquity - BuzzWord
- Sorry again about the lack of pictures. For this app it really hurts because screenshots are hard to come by. When I get some, Ill make sure to post them. Theyre saving the best demos for last, and Virtual Ubiquitys word processor application, BuzzWord, looks like an awesome application....
- Tags: Adobe Engage, Virtual Ubiquity, Rich Internet Applications, Flex
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Adobe Engage: Scrybe
- I apologize for the lack of pictures. I dont have time to insert logos and I didnt bring a camera. There are people taking photos so Ill update these with links to those tomorrow or later today. Scrybe generated a lot of chatter with its YouTube video showing off...
- Tags: Scrybe, Flash, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Adobe Engage: eBay's Internal Flex Applications
- eBay has been using Flex for a long time, since the 1.5 days and Tom Ortega is giving us a view of some of their internal monitoring application. This is a refreshing presentation and while the application isnt pretty, its a look at how Flex does a great job of...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Flex, Flash, eBay
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
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