Rounding Up a Mournful Week
Towards the end of last week, Farah Fawcett was followed by Michael Jackson was followed by Billy Mays. Gawker has some interesting statistics about how the news about MJ’s death melted the entire Internet, and Lee Brimelow tweeted that he was thinking about approaching Billy Mays for a joke infomercial for Adobe.
The first Android smartphone [...]
A simple, lean, useful and beautiful software
I’ve seen people are very easily in agreement with major principles but each one might practice them differently. Lots of developers claim they do like to put “Simplicity” on the top of their RIA design approach check-list, but in the end there are still just way too many of complicate “rich” applications. That’s the reason [...]
I Love Traffic
Not really. But the Armor Games website has a simple game called I Love Traffic which I recommend to all the fans of the boy who never grew up. I have been playing this for more than a couple of hours and have stopped only to tell you about it.
The idea is to control traffic [...]
Google Indexing External Content
The Google Webmaster Central Blog recently carried a post assuring webmasters across the globe that Google is now capable of indexing Flash content along with its associated external resources. In plain English, it means that if SWF X loads content from SWF Y, then Y can be recognized as a child of X and both [...]
Middle East Flash Social Network with Games
I think it’s from or targeting Middle East internet communities, correct me if I’m wrong. The name is Fameego, a Flash based social network site that provides a bunch of of fun flash games to play once registered and login.
The registration process is event-less with email verification as usual. Once login, the Flash site looks [...]
Rounding Up HTML 5 Discussion Week
Adobe MAX 2009 has opened for registration. Early bird discounts until Aug 31st. Follow @adobemax for all updates.
Adobe and Microsoft have been collaborating on a range of security goals for nearly two years! And they have no plans to stop yet.
David Tucker follows his previous post with more observations, this time about HTML 5. As [...]
Adobe RTMP Specification Available
Nearly five months after announcing that the Real Time Messaging Protocol would be made open, Adobe has finally made it available (PDF Alert!). The seventy-page spec is a set of four documents explaining the license, the RTMP chunk stream, the message formats, and the command messages.
RTMP (Real Time Messaging Protocol) is the multimedia protocol used [...]
Rounding Up An Eventful Week
Adobe Flex & Adobe AIR
Adobe AIR has now been installed over 200 million times. Adrian Ludwig of the Adobe AIR team recaps the various territories it has been adopted into: social apps (mostly Twitter apps, I think), enterprise apps (Salesforce, Oracle), government apps (the Polish Finance Ministry), and what I call novelty apps (like the [...]
Silex, the June Sourceforge POTM
Silex is an open source RIA that can be used to build Flash Web sites for Flash Player 7, 8, 9, and 10. It is a CMS which can handle a wide variety of media, comes with an online WYSIWYG editor, automatically generates deep linking for your SWFs, and creates on-the-fly HTML versions for each [...]
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