http://madowney.com/blog Mike Downey is the Principal Evangelist for Platform Business Development at Adobe Systems and focuses on Adobe's platform technologies including AIR, Flash, and Flex. This is his personal blog. The views expressed on this site are his and his alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of Adobe Systems, it's employees or partners in any way. Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:30:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/2008/07/31/learn-about-embedding-flash-content-with-swfobject-20-from-lee-brimelow/ 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 ... http://madowney.com/blog/2008/07/31/pcworld-article-on-flash-gaining-traction-in-the-enterprise/ Adobe Platform Evangelist, Lee Brimelow, has posted a good interview of Justin Everett-Church, Sr. Product Manager for Flash Player on theFlashblog.com. Today I was at Adobe HQ in San Francisco and got a chance to interview Justin Everett-Church, who is the Senior Product Manager for Flash Player, about some of the ... http://madowney.com/blog/2008/07/30/lee-brimelow-talks-to-flash-player-pm-about-flp10-and-swf-search/ When major corporations and small businesses alike need to promote their most important products with high-end, engaging user experiences that combine multiple media formats with dynamic data and motion graphics they must make tough decisions on which rich client technologies they should bet their business on. Like so many other companies, ... http://madowney.com/blog/2008/07/30/microsoft-chooses-flash-to-market-windows-vista/ Alan Lewis, Product Manager for eBay Desktop over at eBay, has reported the very exciting news that AIR-based eBay desktop has been downloaded over 1 Million times! I first demonstrated this application at the DEMO conference in Palm Springs after Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch lost his voice the day before ... http://madowney.com/blog/2008/07/17/air-based-ebay-desktop-downloaded-1-million-times/ Wow - I just found one of the most gratifying software plugins I've ever used. Like many photographers, I've been struggling with excessive noise in a lot of my shots due to high ISO or compensation for poor exposures. On Scott Kelby's recommendation I decided to give Photoshop plugin Noiseware ... http://madowney.com/blog/2008/06/29/best-photoshop-plugin-ever-noiseware-professional/ I've been playing around with Photoshop Express again, now that it supports importing from my Flickr feed. What an awesome application! It was built with Flex and ActionScript 3.0 and it's extremely impressive. One of it's features is the ability to create a really cool slideshow gallery that you can embed ... http://madowney.com/blog/2008/05/20/photoshop-express-now-supports-flickr/ I tried doing my first 30-second video for 30onAIR but I wasn't able to get my Flash Player 10 beta quick feature overview under 1 min 30 secs. Quickly learn what some of the new features in the recently released Flash Player 10 beta. http://madowney.com/blog/2008/05/15/30x3-on-air/ ReadWriteWeb reports that traffic analyst Hitwise is saying that YouTube now has a market share in the video sector of 73.18%. Traffic analysts Hitwise released new numbers today indicating that while online video sites as a category have seen a 7% drop in traffic year over year since March 2007 - ... http://madowney.com/blog/2008/04/15/392/ We've just announced that we're leading an initiative to define an open file format for digital cinema files. Adobe intends to leverage its successful Digital Negative Specification (DNG) file format as a foundation, and Adobe plans to work with a broad coalition of leading camera manufacturers, including Panavision, Silicon Imaging, Dalsa, ... http://madowney.com/blog/2008/04/13/adobe-starts-initiative-to-develop-open-format-for-digital-cinema-files/