“Aruba, Jamaica, oooh I wanna take ya…”. That’s the first thing that came to mind when I heard the Cocomo codename. Cocomo is far more than a cheesy song though. It was actually the acronym of Common Collaboration Model.

Cocomo is now the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service. AFCS is a Platform as a Service that allows Flash Platform developers to easily add real-time social capabilities into their RIA. Using both Flex-based client components and a hosted services infrastructure, Adobe Flash Collaboration Service allows you to build real-time, multi-user applications with Flex in less time than ever before.

Check out the AFCS team blog for more information on the roadmap. Want to start adding collaboration and multi-user capabilities to your applications? Then sign up for a free developer account on Adobe Labs.

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

Hey… I have to set a pretty high standard for Andrew and myself, right? We will be doing the Cocomo demo in Milan and we think we created something really cool and hopefully funny.

So, since Andrew and I are now going to be part of the keynote in Milan, it’s obvious that we won’t be able to live blog the keynote this time. Luckily our colleagues Mihai, Tom and Piotr will take care of the live blogging this time. So… Make sure you don’t miss our Cocomo demo… either live in Milan or via the live blog!

With so many announcements at MAX (and after), I thought it was a good idea to do a round up of all the cool stuff we announced/showed/released this week.

Alchemy: Alchemy is a research project that allows users to compile C and C++ code that is targeted to run on the open source ActionScript Virtual Machine.

Bolt: Bolt is the code name for a new Eclipse based development tool that you can use to build applications for ColdFusion. Click to sign up for the beta.

Centaur: Centaur is the code name for the next release of ColdFusion. Beta applications are now being accepted. Click for more info.

Cocomo: Cocomo is a Platform as a Service that allows Flex developers to easily add real-time social capabilities into their RIA.

Configurator: Configurator is an open source utility that enables the easy creation of panels (palettes) for use in Photoshop CS4.

Durango: Durango allows developers, designers and end-users to easily mashup independent components to create new applications or extend existing Durango-enabled applications.

Flash Catalyst: Flash Catalyst is a new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating application interfaces and interactive content without coding.

Genesis: Genesis is the code name for a new product initiative at Adobe with the objective of joining business applications, documents and the web on every knowledge worker’s desktop with integrated collaboration capabilities.

Gumbo: Gumbo is the code name for the next generation of Flex.

InContext Editing: InContext Editing is an online service that allows designers to create, manage, and control editable web pages.

PatchPanel: A first glimpse at combining the dynamic control of ActionScript with the power of Adobe’s Creative Suite.

Pixel Bender 5: An image and video processing infrastructure with runtime optimization on heterogeneous hardware.

Stratus: A new communications protocol called the Real-Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP). The most important features of RTMFP include low latency, end-to-end peering capability, security and scalability.

Text Layout Framework: The Text Layout Framework is an extensible library, built on the new text engine in Adobe Flash Player 10, which delivers advanced, easy-to-integrate typographic and text layout features for rich, sophisticated and innovative typography on the web.

Wave: Wave is an Adobe AIR application and Adobe hosted service that work together to enable desktop notifications.

Wow… That should keep you busy for a while ;-)