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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
- Adobe announces hardware accelerated video in Flash, apollo's new name, and two new betas
- Adobe announces hardware accelerated video in Flash, Apollo's new name, and two new betasRE: GPU accelerationInteresting! I'll have to ping Tinic to find out more. I hadn't ever heard that before, so thanks for the heads up!GPU accelerationRyan - I'm sure that earlier versions of Flash on the Mac have...
- Tags: video, Adobe Systems Inc., Apollo, acceleration, GPU, hardware
- Discussion threads 2007-06-11
- 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
- What Google Gears means for Rich Internet Applications and apollo
- What Google Gears means for Rich Internet Applications and ApolloRyan, you need to start investigating and thinking about the sync problemThere is a huge body of existing research out there, but, in the end, many of the solutions are application / file type dependent.http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/Jolt is goodWhen Acrobat 2.1 enabled mere...
- Tags: Desktops, Google Gears, Apollo, rich Internet application, Google Inc., Adobe AIR, BEA Jolt
- Discussion threads 2007-05-31
- What Google Gears means for Rich Internet Applications and apollo
- Some big news today that Google is announcing an open source project called "Google Gears" which is an open source collaboration between Google, Adobe, Mozilla, and Opera that enables offline web applications in the browser. It seems very similar to the announcement that Mozilla made about the offline features in...
- Tags: Adobe, Apollo, Google
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Bidding for the first invite to a Rich Internet Application on eBay
- This is kind of cool so I couldn't pass up the chance to mention it. The San Dimas project, which is the Apollo demo that nearly everyone has seen and I got a first crack at here is close to going public beta. In honor of that, the people on...
- Tags: Apollo, eBay
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- To browser or not? It doesn't really matter
- Rich Internet Applications have gotten a lot of great attention recently. The technologies and acronyms are blending together in a seemingly endless soup of technobabble. Part of that comes with any new technology and in the hyper-attentive world of the web people are quick to make judgments and even quicker...
- Tags: Apollo, Experience, Flash, Flex, Silverlight
- Blog posts 2007-05-28
- Changing the user expectation by freeing applications from the browser
- Disclosure: Last week I announced that I'm working for Adobe. While I haven't officially started, consider me an Adobe employee for all intents and purposes. I have the disclosure statement at the bottom of the page, but I'll probably run this for a while just to make sure there isn't...
- Tags: Silverlight, Flash, Apollo, Ajax
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- Shantanu Narayen, Chief Operating Officer at Adobe on apollo, Silverlight, and CS3
- Knowledge@Wharton just published a great interview with Shantanu Narayen, the Chief Operating Officer at Adobe. In the interview he touches on almost all aspects of Adobe's product line including Creative Suite 3, Flash, Flex, and Apollo. He also talks about some of the corporate culture at Adobe and how it...
- Tags: Flex, Flash, Apollo, Adobe, Silverlight
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- 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
- Yahoo goes Rich Internet Application for its browser messengerAnother ClientHey Ryan,Great insight as always. I use Meebo all the time, as Adobe IT blocks most IM protocols. Also, for whatever reason, most of my friends seem to use AIM, and most of my co-workers use YIM. Having...
- Tags: Desktops, Meebo, desktop, Apollo, Yahoo goes Rich Internet Application, Yahoo Goes, Yahoo! Inc., Internet application, rich Internet application, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2007-05-03
- 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
- My lunch with Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie
- My lunch with Ray Ozzie and Scott GuthrieNew Job Opening for OzzieNow that the whole Groove and Live thing has played out -- I think Lipitor is looking for a new spokesman...and Ozz has the Robert Jarvik lips and all...so, a natural match.XBAP'sI thought XBAPs were going to be the...
- Tags: Apollo, rich Internet application, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, XBAP, Ray Ozzie
- Discussion threads 2007-04-30
- 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
- Flash Player/Apollo DRM and building Apollo applications with DreamweaverConfirmation @ LFPUGHi Ryan,Mike Downey informed us at the LFPUG on Tuesday that there will be some form of add-on to Dreamweaver AND Flash for creating Apollo apps so you'll have complete choice over which tool to use FB, Flash or Dreamweaver,...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Macromedia Dreamweaver, Apollo, Flash Player/Apollo DRM, digital-rights management
- Discussion threads 2007-04-19
- 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
- Monday morning hangover: Adobe and MicrosoftI disagree. This is all out war between Adobe and Microsoft..[b][i]"...Adobe doesn't lose if Microsoft's Silverlight does well, just as Microsoft isn't going to lose if Apollo does well..."[/i][/b]I disagree. This is all out war. If Microsoft's Silverlight does well (i.e. is adopted by developers),...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Adobe Systems Inc., Apollo, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-04-16
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