mikedowney|blog » General http://madowney.com/blog on microsoft, rich media, gadgets, and software Mon, 08 Aug 2011 01:22:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 DAILY: Predictions for 2009 http://madowney.com/blog/2009/01/daily-predictions-for-2009/ http://madowney.com/blog/2009/01/daily-predictions-for-2009/#comments Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:52:36 +0000 mike downey http://madowney.com/blog/?p=441
  • Yahoo will remain an independent company make a big comeback
  • Sun Microsystems will continue it’s downward spiral and will end up selling off a major component of their business
  • Microsoft will make significantly more traction with their cloud services
  • iPhone will gain significantly more marketshare and will become the dominant platform for mobile computing, rivaled primarily by Google’s Android platform which will also gain significant marketshare as better hardware hits the market
  • Twitter will continue to flourish and will likely be acquired by Google
  • Digg will be acquired by someone, perhaps Yahoo
  • Kevin Rose will achieve his goal and go on a date with Jennifer Aniston
  • Blogging will become popular again – but posts will be more frequent and in shorter bursts
  • Cisco Systems will make a big play in the web 2.0 arena that will get them a lot of attention
  • My most bold prediction: the return of the chat room!
    • ]]>     http://madowney.com/blog/2009/01/daily-predictions-for-2009/feed/ 8     Learn about branding in this short visual presentation http://madowney.com/blog/2009/01/learn-about-branding-in-this-short-visual-presentation/ http://madowney.com/blog/2009/01/learn-about-branding-in-this-short-visual-presentation/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:16:13 +0000 mike downey http://madowney.com/blog/?p=439 I found this last night on slideshare and thought I’d share it. I haven’t done a great deal of thinking about branding in the past so this short presentation really opened my eyes. It’s kind of fun to think about.

    The Brand Gap

    View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: design brand)
    ]]>     http://madowney.com/blog/2009/01/learn-about-branding-in-this-short-visual-presentation/feed/ 2     DAILY: 2008 in Review http://madowney.com/blog/2009/01/daily-2008-in-review/ http://madowney.com/blog/2009/01/daily-2008-in-review/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:07:17 +0000 mike downey http://madowney.com/blog/?p=433 Ok – this will be the year that I do a daily post! I say that every year but I’m not giving up yet. To make it easier on myself I’m going to attempt to do a daily post of something short and sweet (and hopefully interesting) like my friend Brian. I’m going to prefix each post with “DAILY:” so they can be differentiated from my regular, more in-depth posts.

    To kick things off, I thought I’d list a few of my favorite things from 2008:

    What were your 2008 favs?
    ]]>     http://madowney.com/blog/2009/01/daily-2008-in-review/feed/ 2     Learn about embedding Flash content with SWFObject 2.0 from Lee Brimelow http://madowney.com/blog/2008/07/learn-about-embedding-flash-content-with-swfobject-20-from-lee-brimelow/ http://madowney.com/blog/2008/07/learn-about-embedding-flash-content-with-swfobject-20-from-lee-brimelow/#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:30:16 +0000 mike downey http://madowney.com/blog/?p=400 Adobe Platform Evangelist Lee Brimelow has posted a great tutorial on using SWFObject 2.0 for embedding SWFs in your HTML content over at gotoandlearn.com.

    Go check it out here >>

    ]]>     http://madowney.com/blog/2008/07/learn-about-embedding-flash-content-with-swfobject-20-from-lee-brimelow/feed/ 5     PCWorld article on Flash gaining traction in the Enterprise http://madowney.com/blog/2008/07/pcworld-article-on-flash-gaining-traction-in-the-enterprise/ http://madowney.com/blog/2008/07/pcworld-article-on-flash-gaining-traction-in-the-enterprise/#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:00:04 +0000 mike downey http://madowney.com/blog/?p=399 PCWorld reports Adobe: Flash Gaining Traction in the Enterprise.

    While most people know Flash as primarily a multimedia delivery and development technology for Web sites, it is catching on as a front-end user-interface (UI) technology for business applications, an Adobe manager [AIR Group Product Marketing Manager, Adrian Ludwig] said Wednesday.

    The article goes on to discuss Flash’s growing use behind the corporate firewall and the impact that Flex has had in gaining interest from traditional application developers.

    Adobe’s Flash has been making progress against legacy desktop applications — such as those built in C++ — although that progress hasn’t been widely publicized…

    “One of the problems with Flash is people only think of it as being used to do public Web sites,” he said in an interview in New York Wednesday. “It’s a misconception. A significant percentage of [Flash] applications people are making now are enterprise applications behind the corporate firewall.”

    He cited as an example an application that Siemens and development partner Thrasys created for Siemen’s health information system. The companies created a front-end, Web-based interface using Flash and Flex to unite several back-end applications and streamline how employees use information from different systems.

    Read the full article here >>

    ]]>     http://madowney.com/blog/2008/07/pcworld-article-on-flash-gaining-traction-in-the-enterprise/feed/ 3