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A BIG Thank You to our Facebook Fans

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UPDATED: Two new vids from Adobe Flash Professional engineers – scroll to watch.

Wow – we’ve hit a Flash Facebook page milestone – 100,000 fans! Nice! Thank you for all the love you’ve shown us. The Flash community is one of the most supportive, creative, and cool communities out there, thanks to you. Lee Brimelow, Flash Platform evangelist, decided to share a few words of gratis in the vid below. He also talks about how Flash changed him when he was just a lad (uh..how old are you, Lee…how old is Flash again…?)





We invite you to join us in celebrating our 100k Friends of Flash on Facebook milestone by telling us your own Flash story. Show us a demo of your proudest Flash moment (project, site, game…) and tell us about how Flash has changed you and we’ll feature it on our facebook page. Simply create a video, upload it to YouTube and share the link with us. We’ll highlight it in our “Flash Fan Stories” YouTube Playlist. Or, simply post the video and/or your thoughts to your Facebook page and tag it with @Adobe Flash and we’ll find you.


Can’t wait to hear your Flash story!

Flash Player 10.1 for Google TV

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We are excited about the launch of the first Google TV devices.  Google TV has set out to revolutionize the way we all enjoy television by bringing the web and search to the experience.  All Google TV devices will ship with a beta version of Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1, a great step towards bringing a full web browsing experience to Internet connected televisions and other digital home devices.  With support for Adobe Flash, more than three million developers worldwide are now able to extend their web content to the digital home so users can enjoy rich, high-definition videos and other Flash-based web content.

Thanks to the ubiquity of Flash, there is a tremendous amount of engaging content on the web.  Watching video on computers and smartphones is great, but it is an even better experience watching web videos streamed to the biggest screen in your home – your TV.  Flash Player for Google TV is optimized to deliver amazing HD Flash video – all the way up to pristine 1080p.  Users can access both free and premium video content from sites across the web.  Some great examples are YouTube, TBS, TNT, CNN, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, VEVO, Amazon Video On Demand, and HBO GO, just to name a few!

This is another important milestone for our multiscreen vision, enabling Flash content across devices, platforms, and browsers.  Similar to the release of Flash Player 10.1 for Android smartphones in May, the initial release for Adobe Flash on Google TV is a beta version.  It’s a great way for us to get feedback on real-world performance within the unique context of these new device screens.  Users will be able to benefit from “over-the-air” updates of the Google TV platform and Flash Player as we continue to collaborate with Google to improve the capabilities of Flash on these devices.

Adobe has been working closely with Google to integrate Flash Player 10.1 into all of their platforms, including Chrome, Android, and now Google TV.  While the beta version of Flash Player 10.1 on Google TV is a work in progress and still needs to be optimized for certain types of content, we are excited about the unlimited potential a full browser combined with Flash Player will bring to the TV experience.  We are committed to delivering updates to the Flash Player over the coming months to constantly improve the web experience on Google TV.

Seriously – ARE You Smarter than a Flash Evangelist?

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As you may have read in a blog post last week from Ben Forta on the MAX blog, on Day 2 of this year’s MAX, on the community pavilion stage, we’ll be hosting a game show that pits 4 experts from the greater Flash community against 4 Adobe Flash evangelists. We’re calling the game “Are You Smarter than a Flash Evangelist?” and right now we’re taking your questions (and answers) to make this a quality, “infotaining” event. Got a Q/A that will flummox our contestants? Send it to us: fye@adobe.com. Can be multiple choice, single answer, techy or not so techy. The more the better.

SO WHEN IS THE GAME?
Tues Oct 26 at 4.30pm PT – MAX Pavilion stage, LACC

WHO IS PLAYING?
The Adobe team: Lee Brimelow, Ryan Stewart, Michael Chaize and Serge Jespers
The Community team: Stacey Mulcahy, Chuck Freedman, Elad Elrom and Jesse Freeman – aka The Flash Bum

WHAT’S THE ACTUAL GAME?
4 rounds of questions – the 4th round will be Family Feud style survey question which we’ll also want your input on, stay tuned for a link! – and then a final Lightning Round of Q/As.

WHAT WILL THEY WIN?
A mug. Probably a beer. Lots of bragging rights.

WHAT DO I DO NEXT?
Besides emailing us Q/A’s to fye@adobe.com… Join us at MAX 2010. Here’s how to convince your boss. Already convinced? Here’s where to register for MAX.

Adobe Updates Facebook Developer Platform

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Today Adobe released a major update to the ActionScript 3 Client Library for Facebook Platform API. Developed by gskinner.com and fully supported by Facebook and Adobe, this class library facilitates the development of Flash Platform applications that communicate with Facebook using the Graph API, making it easier for developers to create applications, which combine the social connectivity of Facebook with the ubiquity and power of Adobe Flash. To get started, there are new and updated resources in the Adobe Developer Connection, including two cool showcase examples: FIFA Superstars (developed by Playfish) and Glee Your Life (developed by Trailer Park, Inc. for FOX Home Entertainment).

Spark Booth – Camera Kiosk on AIR

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One of the latest trends at weddings and birthdays are photo booths where party goers pile together, make wacky faces, and take home a strip of images to savor the sometimes-embarrassing moments forever. Sure, if you were planning a party you could find a pricey booth somewhere on the web, or – if you’re a clever AIR developer like Jon Wu – you could take 3 days and create Spark Booth, an application built using the Adobe Flash Platform. Jon uses Melrose (now in private beta), the newest addition to the Adobe Flash Platform Services, to distribute and monetize the app — Adobe manages all the back-end server transactions and reporting.

Spark Booth began as a small project for the developer’s wedding and is now downloaded thousands of times a day so even you can have a photo booth at your next karaoke anniversary party – no major investments needed; just a computer, a webcam, and the AIR app.

You can read the full story here, download the case study and go get the app.

From Print to Web in a flash

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Adobe and HOW magazine challenged some of our favorite designers to transform their existing print work into immersive, interactive projects for the web using Flash Catalyst CS5, and the results are stunning. HOW’s September/October issue is just now hitting the stands, and the interactive results, along with commentary from the designers, can be viewed here.

Monetize your AIR applications with Melrose

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Melrose – the monetization service previously known as Shibuya – is now live on Adobe Labs. If you were at MAX last year you probably remember the demo I did in the keynote on day 2. With literally just a couple lines of code you can add a complete license manager and payment solution to [...]

Adobe/Intel App Lab: Join us online

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Adobe and Intel are hosting an event later today in San Francisco around AIR development and distribution. Obviously not all of you live close to the bay area, but the event will be broadcasted live via Connect. You can follow it on http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/applab. I heard through the grapevine that we may even launch a few new [...]

Flash on Android summer camp (in Belgium)

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The summer is always a good time to learn about new technologies or brush up on new features in the technologies you already use. Belgian training center Oak3 is organizing a 2 day Flash on Android Summer Camp on August 9th and 10th. On the first day you’ll learn everything you need to know to [...]

Stripgenerator: Online cartoon generator

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I absolutely love how you guys keep sending me the coolest links to Flash based apps (Keep em coming!). Stripgenerator is one of those apps. Stripgenerator (built in Slovenia) just got a fresh new update that adds a bunch of new features, new graphics and a new interface. The Flash based application is incredibly easy [...]