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Very cool Flex customer story about a Spainish company - Indo - who manufactures and markets ophthalmic lenses, frames, contact lenses and sunglasses for opticians and ophthalmologists

Indo - via the Indonet website - allow Spainish opticians to order custom lenses online.  The company recently updated the Indonet site - using Adobe Flex - with the aim of having an exceptionally usable and rich RIA-based solution to increase customer satisfaction and drive sales.

Read the full story here.

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On Thursday 21st September 2006, Adobe EMEA will be holding an analyst-only "customer" day in London. We are lucky enough to have representation from three great organisations (and Adobe customers) Cable and Wireless, GlaxoSmithKline and Milton Keynes City Council.

Each customer will be presenting:

• Overview of the organisation
• Overview of the current business drivers as they relate to the Adobe software/solution
• Overview of the Adobe solution

If you would like to attend, please drop a line to the team at Bite.  Look forward to seeing you there.

PS - this is an industry analyst-only event - sorry everyone else!

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Adobe UK is holding a Developer Seminar, 6th September at Tiger Tiger in London.  Analysts are welcome, if you're interested drop me an email. The event will have sessions on RIA, Ajax and Flex, Enterprise Web Apps and more (agenda below).

09.00 Registration
09.30 Adobe - What's in it for Developers
10.00 Developing Rich Internet Applications
11.00 Morning Break
11.30 PDF for Developers - beyond documents
12.15 Flash and Ajax better together
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Enterprise Web Applications
14.45 Rapid Application Development – Building an end to end business application in 30 minutes!
15.30 Afternoon Break
16.00 Developing Mobile content with Flash
16.45 Building desktop RIAs - Adobe's next Generation Technology
17.15 Refreshments/Networking

Click here for more info.

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FYI - Adobe is moving its European analyst relations account to Bite, so if you want to get in touch you can contact the new team at:

Email: adobe@bitepr.com

Phone: 020 8741 1123

The new team is: 
Marjan Khanji: +44 20 8834 3479)
Fionnula (Finn) Eastwood: +44 20 8834 3463
Emma Ward: +44 207 8834 3403

Or contact me direct via this blog, via email or +44 20 8606 1203

Finally, I'd just like to thanks the team at Firefly for their hard work over the last 16 months - thanks guys.

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Adobe is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Flash technology. Over the last 10 years Flash has become a fundement part of the web.  The Flash Player is installed on over 600million internet-connected PCs (and Macs!).

According to the PR folks:

"Thanks to Flash, Web sites are now engaging, interactive, accessible experiences for a variety of industries including entertainment, consumer goods, government and education. First introduced in 1996, Flash originated as a revolutionary vector based animation tool providing an efficient method for creating moving graphics for Web sites. At the time, Web sites were static, and had primitive means of engaging a viewer with basic mouse clicks and hyperlinks.  Today, Flash is a complete multimedia development environment used to create everything from rich Internet applications to mobile device content"

In other words, Flash allows developers and web designers to offer really, really cool applications, video and user experiences.

How did we get here? Here's a snapshot of the last 10 years...

1996: FutureSplash is born; Macromedia acquires FutureWave

1997: FutureSplash ships as Macromedia Flash 1.0; Flash 2.0 (and Flash Player) released

1998: Flash ships 100,000th product; Flash 3.0 ships

1999: Flash Player included in Internet Explorer 5.0; Flash Player installs reach 100 million; Flash 4.0 released; www.flashkit.com launches to become the largest online community for Flash developers

2000: Flash Player Penetration reaches 92% of all users; First Flashforward conference- First Flash live community events; Flash 5 and Flash Player 5 Released

2001: Flash goes mobile on Symbian OS

2002: Flash MX, Studio MX, and Flash 6 Player released with support for video

2003: Flash MX 2004 and Flash Player 7 released

2004: FlashLite 1.0 released; Flex 1.0 released; JibJab uses Flash to launch ‘This Land’ animation that takes over the web

2005 - FlashCast goes live in Japan; FlashLite 2.0 released; NTT DoCoMo launches i-cast based on FlashCast server and FlashLite technology; Flash 8 released (and Flash Player 8); Adobe acquires Macromedia

2006: Flash Player 9.0 released; 100 Million Flash Lite enabled units shipped; Verizon announces first US based Flash mobile service; Samsung ships first handset with Flash-based UI in Europe

For more info, please visit anniversary

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