Collaborative Methods

We recently published a case study on Rosetta Stone TOTALe and Rosetta Stone's use of the Adobe LiveCycle Collaboration Service. Check it out and learn more about some of the reasons and the problems that LCCS helped them tackle.

Money quote from Mike Fulkerson, who is a cool guy by the way and an e-learning guru, "With the integrated voice over IP (VoIP), streaming video, instant messaging, multiuser rooms, and other capabilities in Adobe LiveCycle Collaboration Service, we were able to get TOTALe up and running faster and accelerate our time to market..."

Wow -- it's been awhile, but the team has certainly been "running a mile a minute" as of late. But, we're happy to know that we've finally reached the finish line. Today, we'd like to announce the commercial availability of the Adobe LiveCycle Collaboration Service -- part of the Adobe Flash Platform Services family.

(Ok, for those who have been following us, you might have noticed a name change. More on that later, but Iet's focus on the main news here.)

LCCS is available worldwide and can be purchased today with a payment card. For detailed information on our pay-per-use pricing model, please check out our Pricing FAQ.

With LCCS, developers can easily add real-time, multi-user collaboration and social capabilities into their rich Internet applications. Social games are a common example, but users are increasingly requiring similar real-time interactions in other applications, such as online customer service, e-learning, and more.

For more information about LCCS, including examples and videos, learn more on the Adobe Developer Connection and our forums. Getting started is free, so sign up and give it a try now!

It's a BIG day for the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service!

Today, we can finally take the wraps off a partnership that we've forged with Rosetta Stone, who announced TOTALe, an online language-learning platform. With TOTALe, they've web-enabled their language courses and created an interactive, engaging learning community using the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service.

You can check out the video below to get a feeling of what it's like, but I had the opportunity to sit through several hours of the classroom environment (Rosetta Studio) as well as try their social gaming activities (Rosetta World), and was blown away with how rich a social medium an application in the browser could be. Students were whispering to help each other, one was clearly the "class clown" -- the classroom and social interactions between the students and teacher really shone through.

That special MAX feeling is in the air, and our team is getting ready to jump into the monkey cage yet again. We're working like crazy on a few different fronts - getting some announcements ready, working with some customers to have them show off what they've built, and of course, planning a variety of MAX sessions to help developers learn more about AFCS. Want to do real-time presence, P2P audio/video, file sharing, messaging and synchronization, from the comfort of your own Flex apps, with no need to do your own hosting for it? Here's a breakdown of sessions we're planning :

As a step towards finalizing the AFCS pricing model last week we launched a pricing survey. We reached out to some of our beta participants directly and thank you all who've already taken the time to complete it.

For those of you who haven't completed the survey, please take the time to give us your feedback as it will directly impact the AFCS pricing model. For those who're interested in providing us feedback, here's the link to the survey.

While the biggest benefit in taking the survey is for you to influence AFCS pricing, we’ve added one additional perk -- you will have the option of participating in a drawing for a chance to win one of five $100 USD gift checks or one $500 USD gift check!

Lastly, I must confess, the survey is rather long and takes about 15 minutes to complete -- the statisticians insisted that for the demand curves to be robust we need to incorporate a series of scenarios =).

Thank you for taking the time -- the survey will be open through Friday, June 19th.