Adobe is on a roll! MAX, RTMP, Flash Player 10 for mobile, Acrobat.com and 200m AIR installs

Posted by on Jun 17, 2009 in adobe, MAX2009, open screen project | 2 comments

Wow… Where do I start? First of all, you may have noticed that the activity on my blog has been rather low the last couple of weeks. June is a pretty hectic month and it’s not always easy to finish a blog post (I have several sitting in my draft folder now) while traveling.

This week, Adobe announced so much cool stuff that I have to catch up with all the news. So here we go…

MAX
Registrations for MAX are now open. Registrations for MAX are now open. Registrations for MAX are now open. Registrations for MAX are now open. This year, MAX offers more than 200 sessions and 100 hands-on labs. If you register before August 31st, you get $200 off the regular price of a full conference pass!

RTMP
As promised/announced back in January, Adobe now published the specs for RTMP. RTMP was designed for high-performance transmission of audio, video, and data between Adobe Flash Platform technologies. RTMP is now available as an open specification to create products and technology that enable delivery of video, audio, and data in the open AMF, SWF, FLV, and F4V formats compatible with Adobe Flash Player.

Flash Player 10 for smart phones
Just last night, Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayen announced that we will have a public beta for Flash Player 10 for smart phones at MAX. He also said that we will be initially targeting Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Palm webOS devices and that early builds have already been shipped to manufacturers.

Acrobat.com
Acrobat.com now becomes a full online office suite. Recently the team added Presentations to the offering and just this week Tables saw the light of day. Both apps can be found on http://labs.acrobat.com.

AIR
The AIR runtime is now installed on more than 200 million desktop computers worldwide. That’s 200 million in just 16 months. Obviously this is thanks to all the AIR developers out there that actually build applications using the technology. So big kudos to you!

The things people do to win a MAX award…

Posted by on Dec 5, 2008 in MAX2008 | 5 comments

If you haven’t heard this, the Belgian based agency Boulevart won a MAX award at MAX Europe earlier this week. When the finalists were announced a few weeks ago, Boulevart’s Wim Vanhenden promised to shave his head if they actually won the award… Today, all his colleagues took turns cutting pieces from his hair before shaving it all off. I think he learned his lesson ;-)

MAX Milan keynote/Cocomo demo photos

Posted by on Dec 2, 2008 in MAX2008 | 1 comment

If you’re not in Milan for MAX Europe, you actually missed the coolest Cocomo demo ever ;-) Andrew and I created the “Paparazzi Central” Cocomo application where paparazzi can share tips with colleagues and upload photos to share with publishers all over the world. During our demo, paparazzi in Milan were already uploading images to the application… and I thought it was a good idea to share them with you here ;-)


Ben Forta in “Ben In Black”


Enrique Duvos as Austin Powers


Kevin Lynch in the new Harry Potter movie


Andrew Shorten as 007


Richard Galvan and his new girlfriend


Ted Patrick in the future

Behind the scenes at MAX Milan

Posted by on Nov 30, 2008 in MAX2008 | 1 comment

Just a quick peak behind the scenes at MAX Milan.


Behind the scenes at MAX Milan from Serge Jespers on Vimeo.