Posts filed under 'Flash'
In all the posts about Microhoo and “what would Microsoft do with XYC properties of Yahoo!” I haven’t seen any mention of one acquisition Yahoo! made a while back. Its Jumpcut. Yahoo! snatched them up for only $150 million, compared that to what Google paid for YouTube. I know its different but I think Jumpcut has a nice feature set and very good usability. They also where one of the first ones out with full blown video editing on the web. Its all Flash/FLV based so it would be interesting to see what Microhoo would do with it.
February 1st, 2008
A fellow Adobe employee helped make a very successful iPhoneDevCamp happen over the last weekend. I would have loved to attend but I am in vegas waiting for a new addition to the family to arrive.
Here are some of the highlights:
Large group of iPhone owners
Attendee’s thoughts
LA Times Article on iPhone and dev camp in San Francisco
Application created during the hack-a-thon
Top 10 Apps created that weekend
July 9th, 2007
The best quote, “My money is on Adobe simply because of those two invisible weapons, PDF and Flash.”. The comments are heavy on flaming Adobe/Flash and pumping Microsoft. Read the full article here.
June 29th, 2007
I have made the official switch to Adobe land. I have the red badge now. I have been working as a contractor on a cool project in Adobe developing AS3/Flex classes and components for the past 2+ months.
It is real fun and things are moving fast both job and personal wise, it will be hectic couple of months. I think as things settle down more I’ll have more perspective of what it really means to be an Adobe employee. But for now I am enjoying the team I am working with and trying to stay up with all the work.
June 28th, 2007
Ok, all this integration across the products is nice, but the coolest feature I have seen so far is the “Copy motion to ActionScript 3.0″ feature.
The ability to take a Flash animators motion code and save/paste it as AS 3.0 is nice. The ideas are flowing…Version control motion code, Flex component cool motion effects,…
I can’t wait til the end of April to get my hands on the new CS3 suite.
March 27th, 2007
To bad there is not a Flash Player 9 for Linux PowerPC distros or I would be coding Flex right now. So I am writing this post on my Playstation 3 using Yellow Dog linux 5.0 (the free version was just released today) as the “Other OS” on the box. The installation process was not that terrible hard. I was not able to install the Flash Player 7 or 9, and am not sure there is any Linux PowerPC Flash Players out there, any one know?
I am running off the wired network port, it would be cool if I could find the driver for the wireless card in the Playstation 3 itself. Other quirks is the whole HDMI to DVI only capable of connecting to HDCP ready devices. I am currently doing a 720p out through component into a VGA box converter into my monitor. Its not bad but nothing like true 1080p would be. Been sick for the last couple of days, what a time to get the flu bug, so I haven’t had all the time I wanted to get messing around with the Playstation 3. Maybe you’ll hear more on it later from me for now I am off to play some games.
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December 27th, 2006
This news announcement sparks a lot of questions in my mind.
YouTube moves to the small screen
First off its a little confusing because it says,
Users who subscribe to Verizon’s Vcast service will be able to view content on the YouTube website via their mobiles.
and then states this,
The new deal will mean that VCast users, who pay $15 a month to watch and download video to their mobile, will have access to a limited number of approved videos from YouTube.
How do you go from saying that the Vcast service will be able to view content on the YouTube website and then say they will have access to a limited number of approved videos? First off, the YouTube.com website is a Flash/FLV based media player and Vcast is a Mpeg4 based service, would be interesting to know how they implemented that one. I assume this might be some of the reason for limited number of approved videos? because converting FLV to other formats right now is not something of a smooth process. But we are talking about going from a larger resolution to a smaller one so even if you are going from a compressed format to another you will be alright. Most YouTube.com movies are compressed alot though so I wonder if they are limiting it to videos they have the source to?
Well like I said this new article sparked more questions then answers. It was nice to see that they hooked up a 5-digit code to send videos to for uploading videos. This should make the expansion of social-video-networking go up quite a bit. It would be really cool, this is way out there, to have this fuel Verizon’s relationship with Adobe and push the Vcast system to use FLV (and Flash Lite 2.X/3.0???) instead of or in addition to the Mpeg4 based service of right now. Anything that pushes Flash forward on the mobile device arena is cool.
November 28th, 2006
Now I am from Vegas and have seen the MGM Grand web site for a while now. I believe its one of the greatest examples of Flash Video, Flash, and HTML. The experience and the navigation all comes together really nicely.
Edge newsletter “The edge of Flash”
Here is the site it self MGM Grand
November 15th, 2006
A news release from Mozilla just released, “Adobe and Mozilla Foundation to Open Source Flash Player Scripting Engine“.
Adobe has contributed their source code for ActionScript Virtual Machine to the Mozilla Foundation. The project is called Tamarin.
The Tamarin virtual machine will be used by Mozilla within SpiderMonkey, the core JavaScript engine embedded in Firefox®, and other products based on Mozilla technology. The code will continue to be used by Adobe as part of the ActionScript(tm) Virtual Machine within Adobe® Flash® Player.
Tamarin will support the forthcoming ECMAScript Edition 4 (”JS2″) language and will be integrated into SpiderMonkey as part of the Mozilla 2 project, to be released in 2008.
David Mendels quote:
What it means is that the next generation of JavaScript will be powered
by the Tamarin VM and that “JavaScript” and “ActionScript” will converge
into a single implementation used by both the Flash Player and the
Firefox browser/SpiderMonkey.
Points to be made:
- Its the largest contribution to the Mozilla Foundation since its inception.
- Now web developers have a high-performance, open source virtual machine for building and deploying interactive applications across both Adobe Flash Player and the Firefox web browser
- Adobe and Mozilla communities will advance ECMAScript
- accelerating the adoption of a standard language, meaning Adobe is pushing AS3 as a standard language. This will help with the 1 million developers in 5 years…
- Will push interactive experiences that work consistently across PCs and mobile devices
Couple of things, I assume this is just the AS3 VM that was committed to the Mozilla foundation, not the whole Flash Player… well duh.
Does this mean we’ll be able to write in JS and create SWF’s?
Does this mean we can write AS3 in our HTML? most likely.
This is not something terrible new, the guy that wrought MTASC is off doing his own language called haXe now. But the cool thing now is AS3 is not just Flash, its a standard language being pushed at the Mozilla Foundation.
You can chat with Mozilla’s CTO Brenden Eich and Kevin Lynch, today at 10am PST time.
The source of the Tamarin project can be retrieved off the projects site. Its interesting to not the team members on the project.
The core members of the team are currently:
* Dan Smith, Adobe, Tamarin module owner
* Igor Bukanov, Mozilla, engineer
* Brian Crowder, Mozilla, engineer
* Jeff Dyer, Adobe, compiler architect
* Brendan Eich, Mozilla, CTO and JavaScript creator
* Graydon Hoare, Mozilla, engineer
* Steven Johnson, Adobe, Tamarin developer
* Edwin Smith, Adobe, Tamarin creator and VM architect
* Tom Reilly, Adobe, Tamarin garbage collector developer
* Rick Reitmaier, Adobe, Tamarin JIT developer
* Erik Tierney, Adobe, Tamarin developer
November 7th, 2006
The image should explain it all! (I was just looking at the video a few page clicks before this came up)
September 15th, 2006
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