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.
It's our belief that the web experience is transforming from one that has largely been solo to one that is highly connected to others. And with AFCS, we want to be at the forefront of this shift towards the Social Web, and make it easier for everyone to add real-time social features into their rich Internet applications. Rosetta's new solution built-on AFCS is a great example of this.
See screenshots of Nigel and me dueling it out in a Rosetta World game ... One ... Two ... Three ...
If you want to learn more about AFCS and what it offers, we will be at MAX. Check out the sessions that we're planning and sign up!
Sounds like an awesome product. The price tag of $999 (for the French language program, anyway) is a bit steep. Are they likely to drop it (by, say, providing shorter subscriptions than 12 months)?