Check out the updated API documentation and try it out!

Not exactly sure how we ended up on Yahoo! Gallery, but pretty cool. Anyway, kudos to Yahoo! for providing the AS3 components, and oh – to Nigel for whipping up an ”Editors’ Pick” worthy application over a weekend in his spare time.

Unfortunately, I had to clear all the old markers in the room :(. So get back in there, especially if you couldn't get in last time, and make your mark on the world!

Try The App Here

There are a couple of issues left to fix, and a thousand ideas on how I could make this cooler, but my demo-coding-time runneth short right now. Also, note I'm only allowed 50000 tile-hits a day, so if tons of people show, it might die an unseemly death.

Let me know what you think :) I've got some more demos in the oven, stay tuned!

We’re back from the holidays and ready to kick things back into high gear. As some of you know, the Cocomo private beta kicked off late last year and we’re off to a great start with good early activity and feedback from participants.

Hats off to the brave souls who’ve already dived in and exposed our oversights!

If you’ve applied, but have not yet received access -- don’t fret! We are opening the beta in phases -- mainly to make sure we can properly support participants and work out the kinks (see above reference) -- and will be letting in more folks in the comings weeks, and throughout the beta.

Lastly, I thought the survey results from the beta application were interesting and thought I’d share the below with you all so you can see the mix of fellow beta participants. Collaborative applications takes the cake, but that’s not a surprise… ;-)

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Update 10:17am PST -- The major storms here in NorCal have knocked out the power at the office. I've been sitting in the dark for the last hour and keeping it rolling... well, at least until my laptop runs out of juice.

We did take time to read through the reviews out there, of course. We've always kept our eye on Robin Good's input, as he's got as much experience analyzing and reviewing Collaborative apps as anyone out there. Check out his very detailed review :

Robin Good BRIO beta review

One thing that caught my eye (besides "There is no other competitor in this marketplace that offers this much for this little", or "Brio is a breakthrough web conferencing solution") is his call-out of the whiteboard functionality. I'd love to hear more of his thoughts on this, and would suggest he apply for a Cocomo private beta account - the whiteboard is built for extensibility, so that any Flex developer should be able to make new tools for it. I would love for someone motivated to add tools to join up :)

Second item for today : Peldi took some time to go through the BRIO source code and come up with a few statistics. The 2 things he was interested in :

1) How much of BRIO are we shipping as part of the reusable Cocomo Flex SDK?
2) How much of BRIO was built on the server, and how much on the client?

Check out this pair of graphs for the results :

I have to admit, I was pleasantly surprised by just how far we've come. Consider that the server code in question will be the same services provided for every Cocomo app, and you get a sense of what we're trying to do here - Apps on the client (built on our Cocomo Flex SDK), Services on the server.

1) Be robust enough to handle all of the needs of a complex app like Breeze/Connect.
2) Be designed in such a way that an ENTIRE MEETING application could be written COMPLETELY on the client, using a generic set of "real-time collaboration" services on the backend.

Well, we're proud to announce that the goals have been met - the results are Cocomo (our client-server framework for real-time collaboration, which, go listen to me ramble here, if you want more details), and what we're unveiling today - codenamed BRIO.

(click to see this a little bigger)

BRIO is the beta codename next generation of Connect/Breeze. It's also FREE, for up to 3 people in a room at once.

Getcherself a BRIO Room here!

The great thing from my perspective is that we've really taken the time to validate the framework here, and really executed on the concept - our Cocomo server framework is now deployed and public-facing, and will (soon, soon!) provide the same backend services for applications that any Flex developer can use in their own applications. You did know that there's a private beta for the Cocomo Flex components about to start, didn't you?

As we continue to march toward our milestones, we want your feedback and help in making sure that we provide the best kick-ass web services platform for real-time collaboration and social media.

The Cocomo team is taking private beta applications starting today -- APPLY NOW!

I think I've got everything on the server (it's a very, very mini version of the service we're going to be hosting for everyone) sorted out now - I had a bunch of comments left in the previous post telling me there was nothing but gray for the app.

Others, like William Overington in England, took some cool snapshots - I liked the chaos here :

For all you debug-player enabled folks out there, if you spot RTEs, please copy paste them into the comments. You help is much appreciated.

Now, Go Draw!

Yeah, it's crazy-buggy, and it's not the prettiest it could be, but I didn't have time to make a decent stylesheet. Also of note is the fact that everyone on this alpha box is Swedish. No, I don't know why either, ask Peldi. Sorry about the screwed up blog formatting - hit permalink to see the full thing properly.

... In case you were curious, here's a snapshot of THE CODE FOR THE ENTIRE APP ....

1. Drag and Drop upload multiple files to Share
2. Public share any of your Share Files.
3. Send Share file links directly to Pownce or Twitter. (With message)
4. Create a tinyurl for a Share public link.
5. Quickly get embed code for a shared file.
6. Share links and direct file links.

Handout definitely takes advantage of the AIR APIs to provide an experience that can't be created solely by the browser. Queuing up multiple files for upload is very convenient. Just fire and forget... but don't worry because you'll be notified when all your files are complete through a neat desktop popup.

What is really cool is the way Handout mashes up Share with Pownce and Twitter. It adds a real-time, social networking aspect that currently does not exist in the official Share web application. This is what it's all about: bringing together different services to create something new, useful, even unexpected. This is where the innovation happens, when data and functionality can be accessed outside of the browser and outside of each individual web application. It's still early, but we're entering a new world of possibilities with web services.

So give Handout a try. And for you developers out there, let us know about the awesome new apps you come up with!

Christoph has made the component and source available -- check it out on his blog:

Adobe Share Livecycle ES custom component

Wet And Miserable Cocomo Presentation

(BTW, am I the only one who gets shivers when they see the old Breeze logo? Yeah, I'm prolly feverish).

First the long awaited AS3 library (Flex 3 Beta 2 required, which is currently available on Adobe Labs)... sorry it took us so long, but here it is in all its glory. The ZIP also includes the AIR project file which we demoed at our MAX sessions. Feel free to use, modify and fix any mistakes we may have made.

Furthermore, Hidyuki Kato has started a Ruby library for Share's REST APIs. Really cool stuff, and exciting to see the community embrace our services!