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Can’t make it to MAX? Organize a MAX party and watch the keynotes online!

by Serge Jespers on 29. Sep, 2009 in MAX2009

Adobe MAX 2009.jpgCan’t make it to MAX? Well… we’ll miss you but… why not get together with some friends and colleagues and watch the keynotes together? No no… Not like that cheesy video you saw on the web… Unless your grandma is also in to everything Adobe ;-) Just hook up your laptop to a projector or big screen. Order some pizza, open up some beers (If you’re in Europe. Ordering pizza and drinking beer in the morning is just weird :D) and sit back to watch what I think are going to be the best MAX keynotes ever!

Register today on http://max.adobe.com/online/!

I wish I could tell you today about the cool new things we plan on showing during the keynotes but I really like my job here at Adobe so I won’t :D

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Where to watch the Michael Jackson memorial online

by Serge Jespers on 07. Jul, 2009 in Flash Platform, flash video

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Today we say goodbye to one of the biggest (if not the biggest) pop icons of our time. Some already call this the media event of the century. Over 1.6 million people registered to get a ticket for the event in Los Angeles. Only 8700 people were selected.

This is surely going to be an event that is going to watched by many. If not on TV, then most certainly on the web. I watched that other big event earlier this year (Obama’s inauguration) live on CNN.com with no hiccups whatsoever so I’ll probably watch the memorial there as well. I thought it was a good idea to give a quick overview on where you can watch the event online.

CNN.com (CNN is teaming up with Facebook)
FoxNews
ABCnews
CBSnews (using uStream.tv)
Hulu (Not available outside the US)
USAToday (Using Livestream.com)
NYTimes
MySpace
MSN/MSNBC
E! Online (via Justin.tv)

Coincidentally/As far as I know all of the above are using Flash to stream this event to no doubt hundreds of thousands of viewers. Yes… You are right… This post should not be about promoting the Flash Platform.

(Image by Kristof Saelen)
(Via NewTeeVee.com)

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SlideRocket out in the open

by Serge Jespers on 28. Oct, 2008 in Cool stuff, RIA

SlideRocket is definitely one of my favorite Flash-based RIAs out there. It’s been in private beta for quite some time but today it has opened up to the public. The online tool allows you to create stunning presentations, manage them intelligently, share them securely and then measure the results — and the AIR client allows you to use your presentations offline.

“SlideRocket also includes an online marketplace where you can find all the content and services you might need to make your presentations great. SlideRocket goes beyond traditional presentation tools by harnessing the power of the Internet and making everything available to you in an integrated and intuitive online interface. SlideRocket is provided in a software-as-a-service model in a variety of price points starting at free.”

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Learn Flex in a week (or less) for free

by Serge Jespers on 29. Jul, 2008 in Flex, How-to

Aaah… Summer holidays… The perfect time to learn something new. Well… For most people anyway. My apologies to those people who don’t have a holiday planned in the summer (like me) but it may be a bit quieter in the office/on the job and that still makes it the perfect time to learn about a new technology.

How about learning Flex in a week for free? We’ve just published a complete set of training videos with the accompanying exercises for you to test your newly learned skills. The training not only covers all the basics but also more advanced topics like creating your own Flex components with custom events and validating and working with data. Go check it out on the Adobe Flex Devnet.

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Adobe Media Player and Adobe TV launched

by Serge Jespers on 09. Apr, 2008 in Video

Adobe Media PlayerIt’s been in public and private beta for quite some time now but today version 1 of the Adobe Media Player is live. I think AMP is a really good idea especially for “road-warriors” like myself. AMP allows broadcasters to easily push out ad-supported content to whoever is subscribed to it. Broadcasters can also easily skin the player and add commercials by using simple RSS-feeds and SMIL.

Once you subscribe to a feed, AMP (running on AIR) automatically downloads new episodes when they are available. Once downloaded, you can watch it wherever you want be it on the train, airplane or basically anywhere where you don’t have an internet connection. This really is what I want from online tv. I really think online tv right now is failing because of crappy internet in hotel rooms and public places. Having the ability to download your favorite shows over night would partly solve this since I would be able to watch it the next day.

I’ve actually built something like this myself. I have a MacMini at home that records my favorite shows (although not a lot of them) and then uploads them to my server. A little PHP script automatically makes an RSS feeds from whatever files are new in the video folder. In the morning I download my new shows and can then watch them whenever, wherever I want. That’s basically the idea behind AMP except in this case it’s the broadcasters publishing the new video content.

Together with AMP, we also just launched Adobe TV which has some really good tutorials on how to use Adobe products and you can also subscribe to the Adobe TV channel in AMP.

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Online TV is failing

by Serge Jespers on 02. Apr, 2008 in Industry, Rants, Video

Zattoo, Joost, Hulu, iWatch (in Belgium), … they all want to bring TV to the web and to my honest opinion, most of them are seriously failing. First of all, all these services are depending on your current internet connection and that’s their biggest mistake. Why, you ask? Simple. I’m on the road a lot and that is really the only time I would consider watching TV online (if there’s anything decent to follow in the first place, off course). And that’s where the problems start. Hotel internet is in this case the only internet connection I have available to me and if you’ve ever tried hotel internet, you know that that’s not always the best and most reliable connection you can get. Most hotels claim they have high speed internet but when 100’s of people are using it at the same time, it’s not so high speed no more. (more…)

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Online developer week starts Monday. 20 free online sessions!

by Serge Jespers on 21. Mar, 2008 in AIR, Events

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Get onboard for this weeklong online event of dedicated developer training and discussion on Adobe’s newest technologies and end-to-end Web development tool suites and solutions.

Adobe Online Developer Week – March 24-28, 2008
Choose from 20 different complimentary online sessions (4 sessions each day) covering Adobe products, including Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) that run on the desktop.
•  Adobe® AIR™
•  Adobe® Flash®
•  Adobe® Flex® 3
•  Mobile
•  Adobe® ColdFusion®
•  Adobe® Dreamweaver®
Learn from the experts (Like Kevin Hoyt, Christophe Coenraets and Stephanie Sullivan) and get a first look at some of the hottest new products and solutions available from Adobe. Following the sessions, you will be able to immediately start developing your applications and incorporating what you’ve learned into your existing development process.
The sessions begin at the introductory level and move gradually into intermediate level during the week. Choose as many sessions as you want.

Attend and Win
One participant in each session will be chosen to receive a copy of the particular development tool, suite or solution discussed during the seminar. This is your opportunity to learn and win!

Click for more info and registration

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