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Open Screen Project @ MAX

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Hi!

At MAX this year we will have a bunch of session specially devoted to the Open Screen Project. We’ve been working on OSP for quite some time now with new partners, the OSP Fund and of course on the product side on delivering a consistent runtime that works across multiple platforms and devices. While you will hear a lot about the product related updates in the Keynote and other sessions, we’ve designed the OSP sessions to provide you with a chance to see how other developers, agencies and brands are already working on delivering applications across multiple devices. We really hope you find these sessions helpful!

Now to your Menu of OSP related sessions:

Title: Open Screen Project: What It Is and Why You Should Care

Learn what the Open Screen Project is and how it furthers Adobe’s
vision of a consistent runtime environment across desktops, mobile
phones, televisions and other consumer electronic devices. See demos
of content and applications spanning multiple devices and find out how
you can tap into the US$10 million Open Screen Project Fund.

Twitter Hash: #adobemax313
Date/Time: October 7 at 02:00PM
Room: 503

Title: Paramount’s “Circle of 8″: Business Case for a Multidevice
Strategy

Paramount Digital Entertainment is working on a new movie format that
plays out on multiple devices. The first movie to come out on with
this new movie production model is the ‘Circle of 8′, due for public
release late October. Keith Quinn and Sean Naughton have both worked
on the actual production of this movie and its digital delivery
through the Flash Platform. They will be talking about how they
essentially re thought the movie making process and seamlessly brought
in delivery to multiple devices. This incidentally is a project partially funded by the Open Screen Project Fund.

Twitter Hash: #adobemax78
Date/Time: October 6 at 09:00AM
Room:505

Title: Cross-device Campaigns for Deeper Brand Engagement

Richard Lent, CEO of AgencyNet and an acclaimed speaker will take us
through the multi-screen paradigm showcasing how each device delivers
against a unique user context and requires a unique value proposition.
He will explain, through real examples, how the high-level strategy
was turned into cool applications and campaigns for world-renowned
brands such as Oxygen, Pepsi, Fox, Atlantic Records and Bacardi. From
strategy, to pitch, to deployment, he will break down how AgencyNet
accomplished and often exceeded their clients’ objectives.

Twitter Hash: #adobemax207
Date/Time: October 6 at 03:00PM
Room: 505

Title: Netflix on TVs Using Flash

Learn what it took to implement the Netflix browsing and movie-
streaming experience for TVs in Flash. Matt McCarty from Netflix
along with Michael Hoch from Sodascope explore user experience
constraints for the TV, engineering and user experience challenges for
network data-driven user interfaces, architecture, and special
performance issues for embedded devices.

Twitter Hash: #adobemax395
Date/Time: October 5 at 05:00PM
Room: 505

Title: Open Screen Project Fund: Fueling the Future of Flash Experiences

Come to this session to hear more about the OSP Fund and the progress
we’ve made with the initiative in the past nine months. There will be
four demos of apps funded and now ready to hit market. Also we are
super stoked to annouce that David Blaine will be present himself to
showcase a Flash Lite based app developed for taking his brand of
tricks to Nokia devices. David will be available after the session in
the OSP Fund Circle in the Main Pavilion to talk more about the
application and maybe show the audience a trick or two!
Date/Time: October 5 at 05:00PM
Room: 503

Thank you and hope to see you at MAX!!

Manu @Adobe

Open Screen Project Fund: Over 20 apps funded already!

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We are excited about the progress we are making along with Nokia with the Open Screen Project Fund (OSP Fund). The Fund as you may know is a 2 year long, $10M market development channel to fuel development of a wide variety of multi screen applications using Adobe Flash.

Since the Fund launched in February, Adobe and Nokia have funded over 20 projects that make an interesting mix of multi screen apps and some really cool mobile apps.

Some of the apps we’ve funded are:
1. LiveTalkBack: This is a real-time audience voting system to collect feedback from mobile devices, web based widgets and the desktop – all using the Flash Platform. The application is soon going to be tested at large Media and Broadcast conferences in Europe and North America and we are excited about the progress the developer is making.
2. uvLayer: Think of this as a minority report-”ish” interface to manage all your favorite online media and share it with friends and contacts across different IM and social networks. Unknown Vector, the company behind uvLayer, had already built the AIR based desktop version of their web based service (www.uvlayer.com). The OSP Fund came in to fund the mobile version of the product to extend the experience to devices on the go.
3. GolfBox: This is a mobile app that allows golfers to book tee times, invite friends to play, read golf related news. It is being built by a team from Little Big Ideas, an interactive agency out of Denmark that has done many pioneering mobile projects in the past with Flash.
4. Mileblaster.com: A great utility application for frequent travelers that tracks frequent flyer miles and award goals, finds mile offers, and sends alerts when miles are about to expire. From the get go this application was built as a Flash widget for the web and has been funded to complete production of not just the web version but also a mobile and desktop version of the very same experience. This will allow users of the service to stay on top of their miles and awards from any Flash supporting device.

These are just some of the apps and information about them and others in now available here. We continue to seek more such interesting utility and media based experiences and are also specifically on the lookout for multi-device games built in Flash. There are already thousands of awesome Flash based online games. We are looking to developers to extend those experiences to more devices to let gamers take game play with them no matter where they go.

If you would like to apply for funding or simply learn more about the OSP Fund I would encourage you to Click here.