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What drove Flash?
Michael Calore, at WIRED Webmonkey, has some current estimates of possible adoption dates for different features within "HTML5". A useful read. I'm more interested in a minor quote in there: "What's driving the most successful [browser] plug-in, which is [Adobe...
Opening the Flash file format
Summary: Ruminations on differing perceptions.... Earlier this week Adobe opened up the Text Layout Framework (advanced typography available within today's browsers via Flash Player 10) and Open Source Media Framework (component-based construction of video interfaces with advanced functionality), to both...
Towards Sustainable Wolverines
Michael Lynton, Sony Pictures CEO, had an essay at Huffington Post today. He started by describing how a late mix of the big-budget Wolverine project had been stolen from a film lab, then distributed on the Internet for its first...
This round of Flash/iPhone stories
Last Friday Bloomberg.com asked Adobe's CEO about Apple's iPhone, and reported:"'It’s a hard technical challenge, and that’s part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating,' Narayen said today in a Bloomberg Television interview from the World Economic Forum in...
Thoughts on the unification of all screens
Big news out of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week... Intel, Broadcom, Sigma Designs, probably more are building chipsets for internet-connected home televisions, and they're using the Open Screen Project to provide Adobe Flash playback directly through...
The thing about Player 10
Techmeme is covering the press release. I see Adobe Flash Player a little more simply. It's the world's runtime. It runs across more environments than anything else. When you send it instructions, you know how it will act. It makes...
Relying upon the existing
Two items hit the newswires today, from Joost and the BBC. These items seem to reinforce each other. Joost, a video delivery service, changed its delivery from an installed desktop client to browser delivery via Flash. The requirement to install...
Geschke on corporate culture
Want to predict how Adobe will act? Look at its past. Groups develop different cultures, and knowing how a group "works" gives big clues on its future. The following quotes from Adobe co-founder Charles Geschke appeared in a lengthy interview...
Geschke on corporate reinvention, betting the business
Want to predict how Adobe will act? Look at its past. Groups develop different cultures, and knowing how a group "works" gives big clues on its future. This Knowledge@Wharton interview with Adobe co-founder Charles Geschke can give you deep...
Geschke on practical standards, the necessities and risks
Want to predict how Adobe will act? Look at its past. Groups develop different cultures, and knowing how a group "works" gives big clues on its future. I've been reading and re-reading this interview with Charles Geschke since it appeared...
Storefront, catalog, or technology platform?
Adobe Media Player had a new release yesterday, with performance, interface, and publishing improvements. Pundits covered the press release. Most of them focused on which shows to watch. Some spoke of "competitors like Apple's iTunes and Windows Media Player." Seems...
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