Last month when i was in Adobe RIA Architect Summit 2008, Bangalore. Raghu from Adobe capture this 30 seconds video about me and what Adobe Flash lite means to me 🙂 honestly 30 seconds moved so fast fast 😀 and its gone till 1 minute ..he heThanks Raghu for uploading this video on www.30onair.com.vivek
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BREW 2008: with interesting session on adobe flash lite
The BREW 2008 Conference about to begin in three weeks. And you can’t afford to miss a minute. With an expanded program lineup and our most global group of participants to date, this year’s event promises to be filled with everything you need to push your business to the next level. So tap into the power of BREW experts 🙂 and enjoy with over 90 sessions spanning the conference.
Conference:Â BREW 2008
Time: May 28 – 30, 2008
Place: Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, CA
Click here for complete session details
It include very exciting Flash lite session:
TECH-503 – Beyond Content: the Power of Flash® Liteâ„¢ for Core UIs
BREW®’s Flash Lite Extension enables customization at the core UI level, beyond themes and screensavers. Come learn how Flash Lite’s abstraction allows rapid development opportunities.
This session covers:
1. Flash Lite’s extensive personalization opportunities
2. Access to core BREW functions
3. Benefits versus other UI technologies
Speaker: Christian Robertson, Technical Evangelist, Punchcut
I hope to see recording of this session, if possible as usual design is something which always passionate me 🙂
vivek
Abobe Announces Open Screen Project 2008: Open Technology to Help Expand Flash Player Reach
Today Adobe announced the Open Screen Project 2008, A great news and step ahead for flash player reachability ensuring a consistent rich Internet experience across a broad range of digital screens and form factors including mobile phones, consumer electronics, televisions and personal computers “anything to anywhere, experience matters”
The Open Screen Project is supported by technology leaders, including Adobe, ARM, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics Inc., Marvell, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Verizon Wireless, and leading content providers, including BBC, MTV Networks, and NBC Universal, who want to deliver rich Web and video experiences, live and on-demand across a variety of devices.
The Open Screen Project is working to enable a consistent runtime environment – taking advantage of Adobe® Flash® Player and, in the future, Adobe AIRâ„¢ — that will remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and applications across desktops and consumer devices, including phones, mobile internet devices (MIDs), and set top boxes. The Open Screen Project will address potential technology fragmentation by allowing the runtime technology to be updated seamlessly over the air on mobile devices. The consistent runtime environment will provide optimal performance across a variety of operating systems and devices, and ultimately provide the best experience to consumers.
Specifically, this work will include:
- Removing restrictions on use of the SWF and FLV/F4V specifications
- Publishing the device porting layer APIs for Adobe Flash Player
- Publishing the Adobe Flash® Cast™ protocol and the AMF protocol for robust data services
- Removing licensing fees – making next major releases of Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR for devices free
Read here for further more What it means for Developer and Businesses.
vivek
Defining the Designer of 2015, what you think :)
 
An interesting survey which AIGA and Adobe have launched an initiative to define the professional characteristics of the designers of 2015. A quick survey to know your perspective. Share your competencies that you think will be most in need, rank the importance of the trends that have been identified, and share the issues you think will most change your role in designing in the future.
vivek
Microsoft Challenges Adobe Stranglehold: Silverlight versus Flash Lite in the Mobile Arena
The Strategy Analytics report says, “Silverlight on Mobile will not catch up with Adobe’s Flash Lite in the foreseeable future, but Microsoft recognizes a great opportunity beyond providing an alternative to Adobe’s Flash Lite. This Silverlight strategic offering will boost Microsoft’s online and cross-platform ambitions in the mobile space according to analysts at Strategy Analytics.
“The Silverlight deal with Nokia gives Microsoft access to Nokia’s S60 licensees including LG, Samsung which is vital for competing with Flash Lite,” commented Sravan Kundojjala, Analyst at Strategy Analytics. “They estimates that over 1.7 billion Flash Lite-enabled phones will be shipped globally over the next three years alone.”
Stuart Robinson, Director of the Handset Component Services added, “Strategy Analytics believes cross-platform wars will likely heat up in the mobile space, an argument strengthened by Nokia’s Trolltech acquisition. And also believes that SUN Microsystems will join the fray with its JavaFX platform.”
vivek
Forum Nokia: Flash Lite Webinar on Flash and Mobile Browsing
 
Forum Nokia organising a Flash Lite Webinar on “Flash and Mobile Browsing”. This Webinar will explore the integration of Flash Lite on mobile devices, give pointers for developing online mobile Flash content, and provide a full question-and-answer session.
Presentation time: approx 60 minutes.
Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2008.
Time: 3.00 pm London, 5.00 pm Helsinki, 10.00 am New York, 7.00 am San Francisco.
vivek
Adobe merges business units serving PCs, mobile
Adobe Systems Inc said on Monday it was putting under one roof businesses selling software for computers, phones and consumer electronics to make them run on a single technology platform.
The announcement is part of a series of management restructuring moves and represents the further consolidation of its 2005 Macromedia acquisition with the broader Adobe organization while also recognizing the growing convergence of once-distinct software and the need for it to run across a range of devices.
The merging of the different business units may appear on its face to be simply an organizational restructuring, where the Mobile and Devices Business Unit will be folded under Adobe’s Experience and Technology group.
“As the proliferation of digital content continues to accelerate, customers worldwide are looking to Adobe for a platform that enables the creation of rich, engaging experiences across a variety of media and devices,†said Shantanu Narayen, Adobe president and CEO. “Key to delivering a well-integrated technology platform is engineering our desktop and device technologies more closely together. Bringing our mobile and platform businesses together under the leadership of CTO Kevin Lynch better positions us to meet the needs of our increasingly diverse customer base.â€
vivek
Build a reusable Flash Lite 1.1 component
Forum Nokia published an in-depth article on “Build a reusable Flash Lite 1.1 component”
Components and reusable code are important aspects to developing applications for any platform, including Flash Lite 1.1. Components speed up development and help make coding tasks easier. Many people still thinks or left designing applications or content in Flash Lite 1.1 for many reasons or off-course limitations but i still feel and try my best to work on Flash Lite 1.1 as device can be targeted more and you can reach it to more users.
vivek
Flash Cast Channels on Verizon Wireless
 
Little posting late about this news but its a great news!! via Bill, Developers now can develop Flash Cast Channels for Dashboard on Verizon Wireless.
There is now more details available about Dashboard, the tools for creating and testing channel content and how to contact Verizon Wireless about getting started. Once a developer is accepted by Verizon Wireless to participate in the Dashboard program, they will then receive access to new tools, testing server, documentation, discussion forums and other information. The Dashboard be available around Mid 2008.
Some helpful links are:
- Verizon Wireless Dashboard Developer Site
- Dashboard Flash Cast Content Guide
- Dashboard FAQs
- Overall Process for Developing a Channel
vivek
Adobe launched Adobe Mobile Gallery showcasing Flash Lite content from developers around the world
WOW !!Adobe have launched a great new Mobile Gallery showcasing Flash Lite games, animations and applications from developers around the world.
i2fly also featured in Adobe Mobile gallery, you can have a look of our Mobile content under wallpaper &Â screensaver section “Snowy Mountains“ 🙂 sweet thing.
If you like to try “Snowy Mountains” as a wallpaper or screensaver in your mobile phone. And it will be great to know your feedback too.
vivek
3D Video with Flash, very cool :)
Have a look to this, very cool streaming 360 degree video by Immervise Media. Once you play the video click and move your mouse to change the viewing angle. Then go ahead and pause the video and move the zoom bar up or down. It’s pretty impressive. 🙂
vivek
Adobe Flash Player 9 update to destroy and save Web apps!!
Adobe is issuing an update to Flash Player 9 that it hopes will prevent Flash-based Web applications being used to launch attacks against consumers but the update may also stop Flash apps working if developers don’t heed Adobe’s recommendations.
The April update addresses two security flaws in Adobe Flash 9, relating to cross-site scripting (XSS) and DNS rebinding attacks — common techniques used to attack computer systems by exploiting flaws in Web applications.
The update focuses on features in Adobe used by Web developers to communicate with third party servers. Those likely to be affected will be using sockets or XMLSockets; or addRequestHeader or URLRequest.requestHeaders in a network API to access content from sites outside their own domain.
If a site provides access to content on remote domains as a Web service provider, or if it has Flash content in pre-Flash 8 format that communicates with the hosting HTML, then the site could be affected. The update could also impact a site if it uses javascript to communicate outside of a Flash SWF. In all cases, Adobe advises following its recommendations to avoid problems.
Adobe says that the April 2008 Flash Player update will help defend against malicious HTTP headers sent from other domains by performing a cross-domain policy file check before allowing SWFs to send headers to another domain.
vivek
White Paper: Flash Lite 3 Web Browsability Support Guidelines for Web Developers
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Adobe released white Paper on Flash Lite 3 Web Browsability Support Guidelines for Web Developers. A great resources for do and dont’s, feature list for using filters and limitation of flash player in mobile devices, simply how you can give more power of interactivity to the mobile devices. Ensuring great web experiences in mobile devices to address global demand, Have a look!
Play FLV and Live Video with Flash Lite 3.0
Pasi Manninen posted an excellent example of playing FLV and Live video experiments with Flash lite 3.0 and Flash Media Server 3. Have a look to his check list and sources file before starting your hands on video experiments. It is pretty easy to stream FLV Video files and Live Video from local web camera to mobile phone, he says 🙂
vivek
Adobe MAX 2008/2009 Cities Announced, again not in India??
 
Great news!! Adobe MAX 2008/2009 Cities Announced but off course as like as last year or so, again not in India?? Not sure for this reason!! or its not announced yet!!
MAX 2008/2009 will be held in San Francisco, California, Milan, Italy and Tokyo, Japan. MAX is an experience unlike any other, an opportunity to connect with thousands of designers, developers, partners, executives and Adobe staff for education, inspiration, and community.
Few questions if Adobe Max not happening or yet to be announced in India and it will be great if someone from Adobe can give answers:
- Why no plans for India?, is anything particular?
- Are we developer/designer are behind the current technologies or current IT scenarios so Adobe don’t think of having a MAX here!!
- Are we don’t participate in Adobe MAX events. OR is this issue related to money investment? or money per user participation, If Yes!! then why Adobe don’t put a user survey and say how much anyone can pay for??
- Are great speakers/developers/designers not like to come to India!!
I appreciate if everyone or every Indians can comment here and let’s Join hands to make Adobe to think on MAX event here. Your Views/thoughts/suggestions/ideas anything feel free to write.
vivek
Adobe confirms Flash for iPhone
Adobe has confirmed it will develop a version of Flash Player for the iPhone. 🙂 finally. The news ends months of speculation on the matter. Apple CEO Steve Jobs this month said that Flash Player for mobile devices isn’t good enough for the iPhone.
“Proper” Flash “performs too slow to be useful,” on the iPhone, Jobs warned. “There’s this missing product in the middle. It just doesn’t exist,” he explained.
We believe Flash is synonymous with the Internet experience, and we are committed to bringing Flash to the iPhone,” Narayen said. “We have evaluated (the software developer tools) and we think we can develop an iPhone Flash player ourselves.”
vivek