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Tom Barclay and I visited the folks at Domani Studios in Brooklyn today and they showed us www.wechoosethemoon.org which is part of a great new campaign celebrating the 40^th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing.

As a member of the Apollo team here at Adobe, I personally thought the subject matter was really exciting. And hte site showcases a huge collection of video and photos from the JFK presidential library. Domani also did a great job with some 3-D video flyovers of the shuttle - you can click to zoom around as the rocket is waiting to be launched.

But as a current member of the Adobe AIR team, what I really like about the site is how they are providing a widget that extends the experience beyond their own website. There is a simple "get the widget" button that allows you to download and install a widget and track a replay of the launch in real time.

The widget can be installed as an AIR application, as well as embedded directly into your MySpace or Facebook page. It provides a countdown timer, a bit of information about the status of a real-time replay of the mission, and ties into twitter to make the experience even more social.

Lately, I've been seeing more and more examples of these types of applications that use Flash to deliver an application in the browser, beyond the browser and across social networks.

The 40^th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch is Thursday at 9:23 am ET, and the "landing" is on Monday - so go check out www.wechoosethemoon.org today.

One of the issues you may encounter when updating an AIR project in Flash Builder is what appears to be corruption of your Encrypted Local Store. This might manifest itself as a vague "general internal error" when your application attempts...

Adrian Ludwig from Adobe shared some very exciting news when he recently demoed Flash Player running inside of the new HTC Hero web browser. This makes the HTC Hero the first Android smartphone with Flash. There is a press release that provides some additional information on the announcement. You may be thinking -- will Adobe AIR run on Android in the future? We are not making any announcements, but if this is something you would like to see, please drop us a comment below or through our feedback form.

Colabolo is a powerful new task management application powered by Adobe AIR that allows team members to easily track their tasks. The tool is designed with collaboration in mind. Tasks can be easily delegated to team members using an email client-like interface.

Some of the features include:

• A dashboard that allows you to quickly view status and analyze data using charts and project statistics
• Push notifications that provide real-time updates to team members
• Real-time commenting between team members
• Drag and drop files to share assets within the team
• Support for custom workflows to match an organization's business process or work style

For more information on Colabolo's features, check out the product feature tour or download the application yourself. The application is currently free while in beta, but will, according to the website, cost $9.99/user/month once it is officially released. Congratulations to the Colabolo team for getting their beta release out the door!

During the Flash Camp Keynote in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch mentioned that AIR reached over 200 million installs. We've gotten some questions from developers about that number, so this is a quick post to confirm that as of June 1, 2009, AIR has been installed on over 200 million desktop computers worldwide.

With 100 million installs in the first 10 months of availability, and 200 million in just 16 months the rate of adoption continues to accelerate as more applications are developed and come to market.

The Acrobat.com application built by Adobe and provided with Adobe Reader continues to be one of the most popular applications. Many of the early adopters like TweetDeck and eBay Desktop continue to be broadly used and we're seeing many new applications that are gaining popularity including:

• BBC iPlayer Downloader ( available in the UK only)
• New York Times Reader
• Time 100 Application

In addition to those large brands, we're excited by the smaller companies that are achieving incredible reach with their applications. Seesmic Desktop now says they are getting about 10,000 downloads a day driven by their integration with Facebook and Twitter.

It's also exciting to see enterprises widely adopting Adobe AIR. So far, these applications aren't driving as many installs of the runtime as the media and social applications, but they are helping to confirm the reach the Flash Platform has established in the enterprise. We've recently talked about the improved integration with Salesforce, seen Oracle using Adobe AIR to deliver CRM widgets , and discovered that SAP xCelsius provides support for AIR. We're also starting to see ISVs deliver applications to the enterprise on Adobe AIR:

• Socialtext Desktop
• Demandbase Streams
• Yammer Desktop
• FedEx Desktop

And finally, for folks who have asked how AIR is gaining traction in the government, I want to share one of my favorite apps. The Finance Ministry in Poland built an AIR application to assist their citizens in filing their income taxes.