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Adobe Max 2009 Keynote Day 1

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:34:27 +0000

I’m in Los Angeles, CA today participating in Adobe MAX 2009. For today’s podcast, I’d like to share with you the first few minutes of the Keynote with Shantanu Narayen, Adobe CEO as well as few of the big announcements.

The theme is clearly mobile Web. Here’s a summary of today’s highlights with a few links:

A full transcript will follow in twenty for hours.

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Mobile Application Development Opportunities and Monetization-Interview with Caroline Dangson, Research Analyst at IDC

admin — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:04:15 +0000

Greetings WOW members and Web professionals everywhere!

I spent a full day trolling the O’Reilly Web 2.0 expo that took place in San Francisco CA. last week looking for a Web professional “golden nugget” or two to report back on.

As I walked the exhibit floor, I couldn’t help but think back of the early days of the Web when start-up companies named their companies after acronyms known only to them and never seemed to match their product offerings. Please note: I’m typically upbeat but candidly a number of the marketing pitches spilling out of the trade show booths last week didn’t seem to make any sense to me or add any real value. Oddly, one company that I stopped by to chat with asked me to define what Web professionals do each day, so it all seemed kind of strange.

In fairness, the conference and the exhibit hall seemed well attended with a buzz activity. Although I didn’t have the cycles to attend many of the sessions, I did meet some really intellegent people and I enjoyed meeting a number of top flight start-ups and Web professionals including Kurt Foeller from Foeller Communications and Duane Nickull, Senior Technical Evangelist for Adobe Systems. Duane has a numer of interesting videos posted on Adobe TV and I filmed Duane’s 3D animation presentation live from the Adobe booth and I’ll be podcasting about that later in the week.

I also had the pleasure of meeting an interviewing Caroline Dangson, Research Analyst at IDC. IDC is a prominent research firm based in Framingham, MA. Caroline specializes in Social Media and took the time to sit down with me for an interview. I like talking to research analyst because they usually pack a punch with in depth knowledge and analysis.

In this interview, I asked Caroline for a perspective on the Mobile Web. As I expected, Caroline offered an interesting perspective and a few things to consider regarding monetization.

Check out today’s three minute podcast on the Web Professional Minute website.

Today’s minute is sponsored by the Adobe Developer Connection and their ADC Write & Give Program. The ADC Write & Give Program acknowledges the writing efforts the ADC community authors by donating US$100 for each article that our authors get published on the Adobe Developer Connection (ADC). Launched in 2008, the ADC Write & Give Program has already donated over US $29,000 across several charitable organizations.

A full transcript will be availble in twenty four hours.

Adobe Max Milan 2008-Interview with Riku Salminen, Nokia

Fred — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:58:30 +0000

Greetings WOW Members and Web Professionals everywhere!

Mobile Web is red hot and getting hotter every day. For today’s podcast, I?’m featuring Riku Salminen, Senior Technical Consultant at Nokia. Riku presented last week at Adobe Max 2008 Milan regarding programming with Adobe Flash Lite for the Nokia mobile phone. I sat down with Riku for a summary of his session and the benefits for Web professionals.

Check it out on today’s WOW Technology Minute website.

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Transcript of Adobe Max Milan 2008-Interview with Riku Salminen, Nokia

BILL CULLIFER: Bill Cullifer here with the World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) and the WOW Technology Minute here at Max Milan at the Web Pro Community Challenge booth, in the community lounge I have the pleasure to be interviewing Riku Salminen with Nokia. He?’s the senior technical consultant from Nokia here presenting on the topic of designing with Flash Lite for Nokia phones?

RIKU SALMINEN: Yeah, actually we call it Flash Lite Programming.

BILL: Programming, OK, excellent. Can you summarize that session for us Riku, and also can you provide me with a better understanding of how web professionals can benefit?

RIKU: Yeah, sure. So, basically the whole session was about how to develop applications for mobile phones, for Nokia devices with web designer skills. So that?’s the message that I?’m kind of giving as an evangelist you would say, on web technologies for Nokia. So what we want to tell people, and especially web designers, is that you don?’t have to know Symbian C++. You don?’t need to be a hard-nosed coder so to speak, but if you know how to create a web page, if you know how to make Flash, you can create real applications for Nokia devices.

So all of the latest S60 and serious [indecipherable] devices for Nokia they support one version of Flash Lite or another, starting from Flash Lite 1.1 going all the way up to the latest releases where we have Flash Lite 3.0. And now that, for the fifth edition which I have the device here it?’s the all new touch screen device, you can also develop, this is actually an application I made with web run-time for my son so that I can go and get him. So with one button it reads the GPS. With another button it sends the GPS as a landmark attached to an MMS message to me so I can go and get my son. So the platform services in the fifth edition of S60 allow the web developers to use…well obviously you don?’t have to be a web developer but you can use those from S60 run time widgets and Flash Lite and services included are sensors, GPS landmarks, VIM which is visual information management, where you have calendar contacts and a media gallery. And there is also an application manager which means that you can launch different applications. And more to come, there is messaging, so you can send and receive text messages, emails and multimedia messages from Flash Lite or web runtime widgets.

Basically web runtime widgets are a HTML, JavaScript, CSS, basic web technologies using AJAX or just basically being a standalone web page without the browser UI. It?’s all packaged in a nice little zipped package and you put an item in there as well and then it installs in your phone just like any application.

BILL: Excellent, and so I’m watching this podcast, I’m a designer and I’m listening, net it out for me. How am I going to benefit? Am I going to improve the functionality of my customers?’ websites through these applications?

RIKU: Well I think the most, the biggest thing is the time to market. So if you develop in Java or Symbian C++ what it means is you need to test, you need to go through different cycles of software development. With Flash Lite and with S60 web runtime your UI is developed right under your eyes with normal IDEs that you have. Flash professional, you can have DreamWeaver, there?’s Aptana studio which is a free version. You don?’t have to have an SDK to build your application and install it somewhere and emulate you can use your web browser to test that the UI is functioning. Instead of developing a software for two months you can launch it in two weeks.

BILL: Excellent, well thank you for your time today Riku. Today?’s WOW Technology Minute is sponsored by Web Directions North. Web Directions North is taking place in Denver, Colorado February 2009 and is one of the world?’s leading conferences for web professionals bringing together the leading experts from around the nation and around the world to educate, entertain, and inspire. WOW will be participating at Web Directions North with a special session entitled “Educating the Next Generation of Web Professionals.” Check out all the details and the great links on the WOW technology minute.com website.