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I?m glad we are giving our killer consumer products away ? it?s a great move for the company and a great move for our customers! A few months ago I was on vacation in the mountains outside of Denver relaxing in the hot tub with some other folks from the area. We started talking about what we do; all these folks were intelligent and technology savvy. However, none of them knew about RSS ? I explained what it was and they all agreed it sounded great and useful. Well, now that our clients our free I hope I don?t need to do any more explaining!
On top of spreading the love about RSS, this move will certainly help my friends and co-workers in the enterprise side of the house sell more software. As folks learn about RSS and the aewsomeness of NGES, their job of selling becomes that much easier! In addition to helping enterprise sales, we will also be focusing the clients on delivering more relevant content - you’ll be hearing much more about that in the following weeks and months.
Nick and Greg do a great job of explaining this transition so be sure to check that out. Get ?em while their hot!
The BlackBerry Kickstart is by far not RIM's best looking phone. But it is a real live BlackBerry and it will run a mere 50 bucks when it launches on T-Mobile in September.
The Centro has proven that a cheap smartphone can sell like hotcakes. Granted the Centro is cute, the Kickstart is not. But $50 (with a two-year contract, natch) puts it in the same mass market as the crappier LGs and Sammys. It's a crazy way to hook the kids, but it might just work. (It'd work better if the phone wasn't so ugly.) [Crackberry via Silicon Alley Insider]
Transform the way you look at new-age mobile phones. Apple launches its brand-new iphone, an all-in-one device. Make phone calls, play your music or browse the net. Apple iphone is the new face of revolutionary mobile phones integrating technology with entertainment.I just read via Peter Elst that Thomas Joos (mobile guide “extraordinaire”) used a framework called b.Tween framework (currently betaware) that is part of EyeGT technology, created by a company called barefootsoft to port and run his original Flash mobile guide on the iPhone (quite a mouth full, eh?)
“eyeGT is the most comprehensive graphics and multimedia toolkit that combines an antialiasing vector animation and rendering engine with extensive texturing support and a multi channel synchronized sound system. eyeGT provides all this in a compact code base that interfaces to applications via an extended set of methods and functions (API). The API controls every aspect of eyeGT, allowing for the finest and most detailed customizations without reinventing and changing the structure of your existing code.”
Here is Thomas’s Mobile Guide for “rockwerchter” (a music event, I believe):
While Thomas’s endeavors might represent the 1st attempt at Flash on the iPhone in the public wilds, it does require BareFootSoft’s technology … and by *no means* utilizes a true Flash Player ported to iPhone (although Adobe has mentioned on several occasions publicly they are working on, and getting closer to, a 3rd party app store standalone type iPhone Flash player)!
These products merely take the original Flash application and coverts it to run on the iPhone platform using the b.Tween framework.
Things that 1st come to mind with this news: Performance (although, from the video appears to be decent) and Distribution (you need to framework, so users must install … and will 3rd party app store be possible for the EyesGT runtime (currently it is via app installer) ).
I admittedly don’t know much about the EyeGT technology, but it seems to me this is a great way to prototype Flash applications to be distributed on iPhone before/if we see Adobe’s efforts on a 3rd party player … and potentially Apple’s own efforts (when they have built up their native developers, perhaps they will dedicate some/more resources to a Flash Player port? … or perhaps they are working on one right now, anyone who knows probably can’t comment!).
In some respects, this news reminds me of the PSP Flash player (Flash 6 port) that was out not so long ago … first there was a unofficial (aka hacked) Flash player ported by independents and then Sony licensed and released an official Flash player, not to much later … unfortunately, look how that turned out (no defined ecosystem for Flash PSP content, no real roadmap for PSP Flash, only sprinkling of PSP Flash distribution and really mostly “experimentation”)!
Despite this … PSP is a cool device to develop Flash for. Hopefully, with the OSP (Open Screen Project), there will be a spark again, sometime when they (Sony) innovative their next portable device … maybe!?
Anyways, back to the iPhone … I think the iPhone case is a bit different though from the PSP. Adobe has time and resources invested (perhaps even Apple has or will have development time into a full player). iPhone is a growing market, device is multi-verstile … timing is right (people WANT a better user experience and DEMAND it now on their respective mobile devices)! etc, etc.
P.S.
I remember blogging about barefootsoft a while back. If they want more attention, I suggest they move *quickly* to open their product to the larger Flash community. Give them a shout, and maybe they will open up the beta a bit more (or make it clearer on where to get the BETA! I can’t seem to find it, anywhere on their site!).
I think, there would be a *ton* of interest from both the Flash Lite community plus every other Flash developer on the planet. Just a suggestion.
Tomorrow I anticipate thousands of posts within the Adobe blogging community at large about Flash content “ported” to the iPhone. Hopefully people get it “right” (that is, there is NO FLASH PLAYER, it is merely a process to get your original Flash content working on the iPhone by using their (Barefootsoftware’s) technology).
P.P.S Questions … wonder what version of Flash Lite was used for the guide and how much underlying device API, one can tap … Thomas?
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Good to see that Americans are coming to Mobile World Congress too!
With the deal closed on the Dictionary.com purchase, Ask.com has now become, at least according to comScore, the ninth-largest web property. The all-cash deal originally began back in mid-May and had Ask.com purchasing Lexico Publishing Group LLC. The web properties that were included were Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com.
Ask.com is reporting that this will give them an increase of around 15 million additional users on a month basis, which would put them up to a monthly audience of around 145 million. Terms of the acquisition, such as how much was paid were not disclosed.
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The era of the cell phone as digital Swiss army knife, crammed with camera, MP3 player, and more, is changing. Read some of the trendy cell phone features available.
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Japanese face-scanning vending machines designed to distribute cigarettes only to those of legal age can be fooled by holding a photo of an of-age person in front of the scanner.
(link)Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announced today it has signed on Norwegian carrier Telenor to its internet services platform Ovi. In the deal, Telenor will give its customers in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Hungary access to Ovi, while Nokia will provide Telenor with customized phones to give easier access to Nokia Maps, N-Gage and Telenor Music Store and Mobile TV. The announcement follows Nokia's similar deal in May with T-Mobile (release).
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We’re not sure why Philips’ e2e touchscreen X800 suddenly become one of the long-life 9@9 series, but I’m pretty happy about it. Touchscreen phone seem to be on a mad race to pack in the best features and the fancies GUIs. Philips, though, have something else in mind. The Xenium X800 will give you the best battery life for any touch screen phone with 850 hours of stand-by. The eight-hour talk time needs work though. Besides the amazing battery life and the e2e touchscreen, you get a 2MP camera and a minimalist set of features like no 3G or WiFi.
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I stumbled across this quite huge gallery (they got hundreds of them) of old nerd watches. The nerdy watch above is an Alba Y765 including a Mamagon Dragon Lady Game Watch.
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Above you can see an excerpt from a big iPhone timeline image, listing all important dates throughout the iPhone history. Interesting to see that Apple registered the iPhone.org domain already in 1999.
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So we heard from a very reliable source that mobile user interface guru Matias Duarte -- who you may know as the man behind the Sidekick and Helio UI / user experiences -- actually left Helio late last year to join up with Palm. Although no announcement was made, we hear he and his gang of designers jumped ship (well before Helio completely flooded) to take on the monumental task of designing the UI for Palm's next-gen mobile OS (aka "Palm OS 2.0 or II"). His resume online now lists him as "Senior Director, Human Interface and User Experience" doing "Something new..." since September 2007; we got in touch with Palm, who confirmed that he's now under the company's employ.Samsung 'Seranata' an iPhone Rival? - Techtree.com
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A collection of network neutrality-loving musicians are releasing a benefit album later this month to support the cause, but you can hear the tracks from Bright Eyes, Wilco, Aimee Mann, and Guster today.
A JupiterResearch report slated for publication late this year will take a new look at the topic of Federated Identity services. Once the rage in online financial services, most banks eliminated their offerings in the early 2000s when consumer demand lagged expectations.
Given the limitations of Web 1.0, this was understandable…and until recently, Wells Fargo was the only major FI still offering federated identity solutions to a retail market. This week, however, it was reported that Citi will introduce a service enabling it to verify the digital identities of customers to third parties. While designed for commercial clients only at present, its’ clear that increasing utilization of the Internet for financial services (both retail and commercial) have brought into focus the Trust Gap that exists online. Even with advances in authentication on bank sites, “something the customer knows” remains the dominant way through which trusted access is verified. Other options—“something the customer has” (such as a smart card/ token) and “something the customer is” (a biometric identifier), are certainly seeing early, but generally less-well-established, adoption in the US.
Citi’s Managed Identity Services, will use PKI encryption to help secure payment and other sensitive files while on clients’ computer system, andto enhance after-the-fact auditability of data so encrypted. While designed for corporate clients, recent JupiterResearch reports (including LINK )
have touched on this Trust Gap from the e-commerce consumer’s perspective. Way too early to address the multi-sided buildout requirements necessary to declare success, but worth noting from my perspective as a step back into the complex digital identity management space.
We're closed on Friday for the 4th of July...have a happy and enjoyable Independence Day weekend.
This October, I will be speaking at year’s first Flash on Tap conference here in Boston.
From the conference name, I think you can gather what some of the conference agenda entails … but in case not, here you go:
“The Flash on Tap conference is burring the lines between business and pleasure. Experience the excitement of a beer festival while soaking in presentations by top tier design and technology professionals. It’s a three-day event, by Flash professionals, for Flash professionals.”
The conference is currently scheduled for October 7-9, 2008, but you can head over the website, www.flashontap.com and verify all the logistics for yourself, and sign up for more info.
More details on my talk soon … but it should be no surprise it is on Flash Mobile.
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Reviewing an egg timer is a bit over the top even for me, but I think the product is quite nice so I just wanted to share it with you guys. You can get it from the lego store.
Lightning Review: Lego Egg Timer [Gizmodo]