New search/commenting for Adobe Flex Developer Center
Yesterday, we launched a couple of exciting new enhancements on the Adobe Developer Connection, specifically in the Flex Developer Center. A new community-powered search is the first enhancement. The community powered search is designed to help people find the best...
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Buckets of Media with Ubuket
Ubuket is the new darling of the music playlist creation set. Entering the ring with recent darlings MuxTape and Grooveshark, among others, Ubuket gives you a way to pull music from a variety of places online and on your computer and make playlists. You can even grab music from video sites like YouTube. Ubuket is quite easy to use. Once you sign up you can grab tunes from a variety of places, including your computer, and turn them into playlists for sharing with your friends, coworkers, blog r
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Making the iPod
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AJAX (Adobe Spry) and AIR development using Aptana IDE
These days I'm working a lot with Aptana IDE. Aptana is an IDE based on Eclipse and the Studio version is free to use. I'm using the enviroment to develop AJAX code for exporting in Adobe AIR. I have to say that I'm really impressed by it. There are small things that are lovely in Aptana aside from the AIR plug in that is totally free and it's great. When you create a web project in Aptana the Wizard allows you to select which AJAX Libraries that you want to import and code against. The
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Google and Adobe embrace 'offline' web apps
Google and Adobe embrace 'offline' web apps April 23, 2008 Offline access to web applications is becoming an important trend, with Adobe and Google looking to make the most of this new direction. Representatives of the two companies touted offline access technologies during a presentation at the Web 2.0 Expo conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. Adobe provides its Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) software for this market, while Google is working on its Google Gears technology. PC
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Why I
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Microsoft: Live Mesh or Live Mess? Here
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Are web apps moving to the Desktop?
I saw an article on Ajaxian yesterday noting that Google was now allowing you to use their APIs in non-Ajax applications. For instance, you can now use their translation API from the server, or in a Flash application, or perhaps even from a VB application. This combined with the release of Adobe AIR, a platform form running "web applications" on the client, makes me wonder if the future of "Web 2.0" applications is not in the browser, but on your desktop. If you look at AIR, the attraction
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Bungee Lab
Bungee has created a virtual appliance for their Platform as a Service and also simplified their pricing scheme. Bungee
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Microsoft Live Mesh platform takes on Google, Adobe
As with most core strategies at Microsoft, Live Mesh has a strong platform angle. At the Web 2.0 Expo on Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled Live Mesh, a cloud service for synchronizing files, folders, and Web-delivered content, such as news feeds, across multiple devices. Along with giving people access to a test version, the company offered a tech preview that will allow developers to access the Mesh APIs to write Web applications with the data-syncing features. People have long said Microsoft
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Help me choose what to print
Help me choose what to print
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Taking Web Applications Offline, to the Desktop, and beyond
Ryan Stewart of Adobe and I got to give a joint talk this morning that covered Adobe AIR, Gears, and how you can build offline and desktop applications right now. Obviously, Ryan gave an overview of AIR, and I did the same for Gears. We also discussed reasons to be excited about Web development, some of the ideas that are out there in the community, and how AIR and Gears can be seen as complementary. We had some requests to put the slides online, so here they are below. I know it is hard to p
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Microsoft Offers Online Storage, Sync through Live Mesh
Microsoft revealed its first truly new thing in a long while today by discussing Live Mesh, a set of tools and services that allows users to synchronize data automatically from their desktop to a cloud service - Internet-based storage - while providing a framework for developers to create software that can offer the same kind of experience no matter where data is stored and no matter what kind of device is used. Collaboration among multiple people for sharing information and keeping up to dat
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Albelli - AIR Photo Book Application
Albelli - AIR Photo Book Application Wed, 2008-04-23 17:25
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Three Ways to Efficiently Feed Your Twitter Addiction
We have recently been covering a lot of exciting things around twitter. It can be used as keyword tracking, getting high visibility for your name and even as a proposal tool. There are virtually limitless uses because while the idea is very simple: 140 character update on what you are doing or thinking, you can use that in a bunch of different ways. What really makes twitter great is its widespread use. If you work or participate as a hobby in the social, blogging, web 2.0 industry you shoul
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Daily Twitterings
17:43 Web 20 Expo - Thermo is looking very interesting. Much more polished than at MAX. 17:50 Web 2.0 Expo - Google and Adobe on stage together talking about RIAs. AIR and Gears.
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