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March 04, 2006
Nack transcript
Nack transcript: I'm bumping this up, in case you don't see Weblogs, Inc blogs in your view in the aggregators -- it's a lengthy text transcript of an interview with Photoshop Product Manager John Nack. Lots of good stuff here, starting with his LiveMotion history, going through product integration and extensibility possibilities, Flex from a creative-tools point-of-view, Apple porting, Adobe/Macromedia integration, more. Lots of good stuff, but I particularly liked this line: "I think that each company, for good reasons, when they were separate was kind of off on its own, doing it's own thing, and didn't have a lot of access to some shared technology. We'd all try to work together, but there's only so much you could do. And so now I really feel like, when I was a kid you'd get a new set of legos, and you'd bust that open, and you'd be like, oh man, now I've got a horse, and an arch, and these chairs, and like I could just build anything with that. And I really feel like that with the technology."
Posted by John Dowdell at March 4, 2006 12:27 PM
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I remember getting new leggos after having a set already. When "I" opened the new set, the peggs on the new set didn't line up with the peggs on the old set so they couldn't be used together to build bigger and better things. This seems to be the problem with technology and software today. They say that they do the same thing, but when you go to use them nothing works together. Except with software, it can cause your machine to crash... which is a lot worse then just only playing with one set at a time.
Posted by: Rob at March 5, 2006 09:13 AM