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- Apollo
- (1) The code name for a cross-platform development system from Adobe for rich Web-based applications written in familiar languages. In beta in 2007, Apollo programmers can use any combination...
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- Pownce using AIR (and I've got invites)
- Kevin Rose unveiled a new project today, Pownce. Pownce looks like it's going to combine Twitter with the ability to send events, files, and links to your friends. Pownce allows you to send it to a specific person or share with everyone. Based on Leah's blog it looks like it's...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Flex, Apollo
- Blog posts 2007-06-27
- Do new verticals need a killer desktop application?
- I heard an interesting statement today about the role of desktop applications in new mediums and taking technologies to the next level. Think about email and the move to more rich experiences. Pine was great and the first thing I used to check email. But it wasn't something that most...
- Tags: WPF, Rich Internet Applications, Apollo
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Confusion, fear and doubt around Rich Internet Applications
- There is a post up over on Read/Write Web which aims to paint a picture of Rich Internet Applications and poses the question, RIA: What is it good for? Unfortunately I think they miss the mark a bit with both the definition of RIAs and the analysis behind the technologies....
- Tags: WPF, Silverlight, Rich Media, Flash, Apollo, Ajax
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- Is Tweetr the first mainstream Apollo application?
- Tweetr, the Twitter client from John Ballinger that is built on Apollo hit a unique and fun milestone today; it officially got the same status as Twitterific. For those that dont use Twitter, Ill back up. When you update Twitter, it shows whether you updated from the web or from...
- Tags: Apollo, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- Getting the idea of Apollo across
- Richard MacManus over at Read/WriteWeb has a good overview of Apollo that may help some people who still dont quite get the technology. I think of the problems you have when you release a product like Apollo so early is that its difficult to get the message across. Richard breaks...
- Tags: Apollo, Adobe, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Yahoo goes Rich Internet Application for its browser messenger
- Today Yahoo released a web based version of its messenger which was built using Adobes Flex 2 on top of Flash Player 9. The application is very well done and I thought it was more than competitive with Meebo. Its also fast, intuitive and stable, things a lot of people...
- Tags: Yahoo, Rich Internet Applications, Flex, Flash, Apollo
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- They saw the Silverlight, and saw that it was good
- Robert Scoble is trying to build a reinvention myth around Microsofts introduction of Silverlight, its new smart client platform. Not so fast, Scoble! Its not the Web thats rebooting, its Microsoft. Silverlight is significant as the catalyst that finally allows Microsoft to recreate itself as a vendor for the Web...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Development
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- 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
- Flash Player/Apollo DRM and building Apollo applications with Dreamweaver
- At the Web 2.0 Expo this week Ive talked to a lot of people about products and came away with some interesting news that Im not sure people got. First, the DRM in Adobe Media Player. Part of the big news was that the media player was going to offer...
- Tags: Apollo, Rich Internet Applications, Flash, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- 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
- "View Source" and Rich Internet Application misconceptions
- Today at the Web 2.0 Expo, I sat in on a panel with Richard MacManus, Kelly Goto, Chris Messina and . They talked about the "hybrid designer" and touched on some points about the web and the richness that has really created the "hybrid" notion. In one bit, Chris said...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications
- 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
- 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
- 5 questions with Mike Chambers: '110,00 downloads of the Apollo runtime'
- How many downloads have you had of the runtime and the SDK? We have had over 110,000 downloads of the Apollo runtime since we released the alpha. That’s a big jump over the numbers released a couple of weeks ago, what caused the boost? ...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Apollo, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- Marketers don't seem to get Apollo
- Guy Smith thinks that while Apollo is interesting from a technical standpoint, it wont see much adoption because the software market is saturated and there are too may platforms already, so why should anyone choose Apollo. Its a classic case of 1) not understanding what Apollo does, and 2)...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Apollo, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Why Do People Hate Building Desktop Applications?
- After reading Paul Grahams inflammatory post about how Microsoft is dead, Simeon Bateman and I got into a little back and forth over IM about the merits of what he was saying. I tend to agree with Don Dodge, about both the title of the piece and the "real meaning"...
- Tags: WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Apollo, Ajax, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-04-08
- yourminis opens up the widget platform, releases API
- Tonight yourminis announced the availability of their API, giving developers a way to build widgets and upload them. In addition, the team released an analytics application that will help you track where your widget is going and how many people are using it. All of this is under a developers...
- Tags: yourminis, Rich Internet Applications, Goowy, Flash, Apollo
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- The war for Ajax developers
- I think theres a war for Ajax developers and Im not sure the people involved realize it yet. I look at Ajax developers as the pioneers of the web. Like the heroes of the old west they combine a rugged ingenuity with a bit of crude willpower to make a...
- Tags: AJAX, AJAX Developers
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- 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
- Public beta of Apollo releasing around March 16th
- According to PC World, Adobe is planning to release a public version of their much anticipated Apollo runtime sometime around March 16th. March 16th is the date of an Adobe event called Apollo Camp that is a one day event showcasing some of the applications people are building with Apollo...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Apollo, Acesis
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
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