We’ve been busy at NAB this week speaking with partners and customers about the future of television and the general availability of Adobe Primetime – our TV publishing and monetization platform for programmers and pay-TV service providers. Fresh off our announcement, we’re... more
Video & Ad Solutions
Ashley
Still
Ashley Still is the director of product management for Video Solutions at Adobe. She joined the video solutions team in 2008, and is responsible for product strategy for Adobe's video publishing technologies (streaming + content protection), Adobe Pass authentication service, and recently acquired Auditude ad platform. Ashley holds a BA from Yale, an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and as her Sicilian relatives will tell you, used to speak much better Italian than she does now. She's been hooked on how technology can personalize programming since bringing home one of the first demo TiVo boxes, which had to be covered in tinfoil to reduce interference with the cable box.
Jeremy
Helfand
Jeremy Helfand is the vice president of Video Monetization at Adobe. He is an accomplished digital media industry veteran and has spent more than a decade guiding publishers in maximizing content revenue as the CEO of Auditude, president of United Online's Media Group and vice president and general manager of Advertising.com. True to form, Jeremy has more screens in his home than a small electronics store and, if they are playing, the Baltimore Ravens can be seen on every one of them.
Campbell
Foster
Campbell Foster is Marketing Director for Adobe Media & Ad Solutions, leading global efforts to drive adoption of Adobe's video publishing, monetization and optimization technologies.
Before Adobe, Campbell headed global Product Marketing for Google DoubleClick, managing ad serving, video, RTB, and rich media products. He served as a founding member of the DoubleClick Ad Exchange management team.
Campbell earned an MBA, with Distinction, from NYU Stern School of Business and received a BA in English from Cornell University. Campbell is dedicated to exploring the intersection between technology and BBQ, and is actively developing the world's first automated barbecue smoking hygrometer.
When you start something new in life be it a company, a project or something personal – it is exciting.
Today, we announced Adobe Primetime – a complete multi-screen video solution that enables broadcast programmers and pay TV service providers to capitalize broadcast video across every connected... more
Gaming
Bill
Howard
Bill Howard is a group product manager and has been in the software
industry for the last 25 years. Much of the time he has focused on mobile
as an architect and engineering manager for Verizon Wireless and Vodafone.
In that time, he was involved in the emergence of mobile portals, on
device portals, mobile advertising, j2me application infrastructures, and
other mobile client services. At Adobe, Bill is responsible for Adobe
Gaming SDK, Flash Player and AIR. In his spare time, he plays with his
kids and acts like a kid running his RC cars and reading comic books!
Thibault
Imbert
Thibault Imbert is a group product manager on the Web Platform team focused on graphics, JavaScript and Adobe Scout, the next-generation profiling tool for web technologies. After a few years working for different agencies as a Flash developer, Thibault released in 2008 a free ActionScript 3 ebook called Pratique d'ActionScript 3, which was rewritten for Flash Player 10 and released by Pearson in 2009. In 2010, Thibault led the Stage3D effort which revolutionized graphics in Flash powering games like FarmVille 2 or Angry Birds on Facebook. He recently wrote a book published by O'Reilly on the Starling framework which he led, to provide 2D GPU acceleration through Stage3D. Recently, Thibault led the Adobe Scout team, to revolutionize the way developers profile web content. Most of his experiments are available on this blog, bytearray.org.
Independent game development company Overdose Caffeine creates cross-platform, real-time multiplayer games with fast and intense environments. Pocket Fleet, the company’s first cross-platform, free-to-play, multiplayer game, invites players from around the world to create or join a space dogfight and test their pilot skills against real people or CPU-controlled enemies.
With... more
Digital Publishing
Zeke
Koch
Zeke Koch is the senior director of product management for Digital Publishing at Adobe. He oversees the strategy, planning and design for Adobe’s Digital Publishing products. Previously, he was the principal product manager for Adobe’s Platform Strategy and director of product management for Adobe’s Mobile and Desktop Platform Product Management teams. Zeke joined Adobe with the acquisition of Macromedia and spent a decade at Microsoft prior to that.
Paul
Betlem
Paul Betlem is the senior director of engineering for Digital Publishing at Adobe. He joined the company with the acquisition of Macromedia and has spent more than 10 years leading the Flash Player agenda. Previously, Paul led the Director/Shockwave product team and spent many years developing software at a variety of start-up companies. Like his work with Flash, Digital Publishing allows Paul to pursue his passion for delivering exciting digital media content to millions of people around the world. It’s often rumored that Paul joined the Digital Publishing team so he can reduce the clutter on his coffee table and make sure his favorite magazines live on his tablet, but in reality he just enjoys working with publishers to increase the availability of engaging interactive content on mobile devices.
By Teresa Demel
Adobe Digital Publishing Suite has reached a major new milestone: over 100 million cumulative folios downloaded since we first launched DPS in March 2011. The hockey stick growth curve in digital downloads confirms that mobile readership on tablets and smartphones is on the rise.... more
Adobe & The Web
Arno
Gourdol
Arno Gourdol is the senior director for the Web Platform and Authoring team at Adobe. Web P&A makes the web better by contributing to web standards and to the WebKit project. Web P&A also builds awesome tools for web designers and developer to create beautiful mobile-ready content and apps. These tools include Brackets and Edge Code, Edge Animate, Edge Reflow, Edge Inspect, PhoneGap, PhoneGap Build, Dreamweaver, and Fireworks. Arno previously worked on the Flash runtime and led several initiatives for Adobe's Creative Suite, including XMP and other asset management projects. Prior to joining Adobe in 2001 he was part of the user interface team at Apple that conceived, designed and implemented Aqua, the user interface of Mac OS X. Arno is a graduate of the Grenoble University. He lives in San Francisco and enjoys traveling from Abel Tasman to Zanzibar.
Ben
Forta
Ben Forta is the director of developer relations at Adobe, and is responsible for the company’s evangelism, community and developer education programs. He has more than two decades of experience in the computer industry in product development, support, training, and marketing. Ben is the author of best-selling books on ColdFusion and SQL, as well as books on Regular Expressions, Java, Windows development, and more. More than a half million Ben Forta books have been printed in English, and titles have been translated into fifteen languages. Ben frequently writes on Web and application development, and spends a considerable amount of time lecturing and speaking worldwide.
Vincent
Hardy
Vincent Hardy is the director of engineering for the Web Platform team at Adobe. The Web Platform team makes it easy for people who create, build and deploy expressive Web content. The team is working on contributions to Web standards (CSS, FX Task force, SVG), open source projects (WebKit, Chromium Embedded Framework) and the Apache Cordova project (the foundation for PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build) which lets developers create native mobile applications using JavaScript, CSS and HTML5. Vincent previously worked on graphical, interactive and animated user interfaces at Oracle and spent 10 years at Sun Microsystems. Vincent co-founded and led the Batik project at Apache, chaired the Compound Documents Format (CDF) effort in W3C and is the author of the "Java 2D API Graphics" book. He has a passion for graphical design, animation and the Web in general.
There are moments in technology that are a turning points and I think this is one: we just announced the first integration of Web Platform Docs content with one of our tools, Edge Code.
Why is this an important turning point? There are several reasons…
The Web... more
The Web is an ever changing place and the first half of the year has been rich in surprises, big announcements and industry shifts! A diversity of implementations is good for many reasons we will discuss. But a more fragmented web could be the price to pay. Will... more