http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/ A place for people to learn about interesting sites, news, and information related to Macromedia Flash, Adobe, and rich, interactive online experiences. This site is maintained by Mike Downey, Product Manager for Flash at Adobe Systems. en Copyright 2008 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:07:38 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.16 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Grant Skinner and his company have been working on a really kick-ass Apollo app for tracking time. He has a great write up of why they built it, how they built it, as well as some screenshots of what... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/03/preview_of_gran.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/03/preview_of_gran.html Apollo Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:07:38 -0800 Adobe Photoshop Product Manager John Nack has written a great summary of the great integration points that we all focused on for the new CS3 releases of Flash, Photoshop and Illustrator. My favorite: Flash does rich import of PSD files... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/03/john_nack_on_ne.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/03/john_nack_on_ne.html Flash CS3 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:02:19 -0800 Apollo is a featured sponsor on this week's episode of Diggnation, the weekly tech/web culture show based on the top digg.com social bookmarking news stories. In the show, hosted by digg.com co-founder Kevin Rose and his former TechTV co-star... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/03/apollo_on_diggn.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/03/apollo_on_diggn.html Apollo Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:00:00 -0800 It's here! It's here! Today Adobe announced Creative Suite 3 which includes a huge new release of Flash, Flash CS3 Professional. Here's a summary of the new release: Adobe Flash CS3 Professional software is the most advanced authoring environment... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/03/announcing_flas.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/03/announcing_flas.html Flash CS3 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:49:04 -0800 As you've probably heard, we've released the first public alpha of the Apollo runtime. Woo-hoo! If you're not familiar, Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/03/apollo_alpha_re_1.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/03/apollo_alpha_re_1.html Apollo Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:21:24 -0800 Kevin Rose interviewing Kevin Lynch at Apollo Camp Originally uploaded by Mike_Downey. Several people have uploaded a bunch of photos to Flickr taken at Apollo Camp last Friday. Check them out here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/296324@N25/.... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/03/apollo_camp_pho.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/03/apollo_camp_pho.html Apollo Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:42:01 -0800 I'll be arriving in Sydney, AU on Monday 3/19 for the WebDU conference. I plan to spend most of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday walking around and taking pictures. I have a few business-related things that I have to do along... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/03/photowalking_in.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/03/photowalking_in.html General Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:36:40 -0800 I just had a strangely long conversation with some of my friends about what crap stuff we carry in our laptop bags when we travel. I found the conversation to be fun and interesting because I was able to pick... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/03/whats_in_your_b.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/03/whats_in_your_b.html General Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:40:07 -0800 This Papervision3D stuff is just too cool. After reading my post from last week, Lee Brimelow of Frog Design decided to build a version of the North Face Kiosk Demo (originally done in WPF) in Flash Player 9 using Papervision3D.... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/03/north_face_demo.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/03/north_face_demo.html Flash Video Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:01:41 -0800 Wow. I've seen a lot of amazing things done with Flash. And as of late, I've seen some REALLY amazing things done with Papervision 3D. But this one resulted in me grabbing all of the co-workers that sit around me... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/02/coolest_flash_d.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/02/coolest_flash_d.html Flash Video Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:30:32 -0800 Our team has posted the recording of my recent demonstration of Apollo and the Ebay desktop application (San Dimas Project) at the DEMO 07 conference in Palm Springs, CA. If you haven't had a chance to see this demo yet,... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/02/my_apollo_demon.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/02/my_apollo_demon.html Apollo Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:57:02 -0800 I'm happy to announce that we've finally gotten a couple of great people in place to lead the Flash authoring tool business. Jennifer Taylor, former Sr. Product Manager for Dreamweaver and most recently Sr. Product Manager for the Adobe Engagement... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/02/new_product_man.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/02/new_product_man.html General Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:33:44 -0800 Virgin airlines is trying to get US Department of Transportation approval to get their new "Virgin America" airline off the ground (heh). I'm very interested in this - but before I explain why, let me provide some background... As a... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/02/let_va_fly.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/02/let_va_fly.html General Sat, 10 Feb 2007 21:52:35 -0800 This is very cool. Innovative creative agency Big Spaceship's "Minister of Technology", Joshua Hirsch, is giving a workshop on Rich Media Content in San Francisco on February 24 - 25. I've known Josh for a few years now and I... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/02/great_workshop.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/02/great_workshop.html Events Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:28:50 -0800 ...and you don't bother testing your site on the Mac? Are you freakin' kidding me? While watching today's Super Bowl pregame show I noticed that Salesgenie.com was sponsoring the show - and running commercials at every break. I can only... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/02/so_youre_going.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2007/02/so_youre_going.html General Sun, 04 Feb 2007 14:46:27 -0800