Archive for July, 2009

July 28, 2009

Rosetta Stone announces TOTALe, powered by the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service

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.

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July 14, 2009

AFCS : Gearing Up for MAX

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 :

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