Weekly blend – January 31, 2009
- Quick Hit Signs NFL Star, Raises $8 Million For Rich Flash-Based Football
- Another great Flash Platform success story. Go Flash! - No Matter How Little You Know About Technology, Someone Will Always Know
- Oh dear… *ROFL* - You Need To See This Video
- Must see! - Video: Steve Jobs Giving His First Big Demo
- The first ever Stevenote! Suit and bowtie included :D - British Airways announces limited in-flight cell use, let the parties
- Wondering what the roaming charges will be on these flights… - 25 Years of Macintosh in photos
- This may make you feel old… but at least you get to see Steve Jobs in a suit! :D - Adobe Flash in episode of USA version The Office
- Although the writers seem to have no clue what Flash actually is, it’s still pretty cool if you ask me. Go Flash!
Adobe AIR 100 million installs, Flash Player 10 already on 55.9% of all PCs
Did you know it took 38 years for radio to get 50 million users? 13 years for TV to get to that number and 4 years for the Internet to get to 50 million users? (according to Discovery Channel)
Adopting new technology seems to go faster and faster and the Flash Player census numbers prove this every quarter. The most recent numbers (published just now), show that Flash Player 10 was installed on more than 55 percent of computers worldwide in just the first two months of its release! That means it will surpass 80 percent by the second quarter of 2009, far outpacing the installation rate of past versions of the software.
The AIR runtime has also been doing very well. In less than one year after its initial release, there have been more than 100 million installations of Adobe AIR! On top of that, there have been over 1 million downloads of the AIR software development kit (SDK), the free open source Flex framework and Adobe Flex Builder in the last 12 months.
A big thank you goes out to all the developers out there who are building cool apps on top of the Flash Platform. Flash on!
Update: Also check Adrian Ludwig’s blog post on how we measure these installations.
Weekly blend – January 24, 2009
- Mac-savvy Obama staffers frustrated with legacy White House
- At least they’re not using typewriters ;-) - Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face, And a Blog
- Visitors can comment on legislation before it is signed by the President? Other countries can learn from that! - A Bird’s Eye View Of The Inauguration (First Satellite Image)
- What an amazing sight! - Live Flash Capacity has arrived – 800Gbps of live Flash delivered today
- Go Flash!
How are you using Fireworks?
Doug Winnie, Adobe’s Group Product Manager for Workflow, is seeking your input. Doug is responsible for maximizing workflow collaboration between Adobe products, platforms and technologies and is currently investigating what role Fireworks plays in people’s workflow.
So… How does Fireworks fit in your workflow? Leave a comment on Doug’s blog.
Behind the scenes of Fiat’s EcoDrive Adobe AIR application
A few weeks ago, Andrew Shorten and I talked to Fiat and AKQA about the Fiat EcoDrive AIR application. Find out why Fiat decided to make this application and how AKQA built it. See how this AIR application can save money for Fiat drivers and how the car is connected to it.
Interested in building your own AIR application? Then check out these applications used by AKQA to build the EcoDrive application:
Do you have a cool Flex or AIR application that we should highlight in a future video – if so, please get in touch.
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