Archive for February, 2008

Astro and Diesel sneak peeks at FITC Amsterdam - Updated

In my haste to put up the video and run to present my session, I apparently placed the wrong video up. Oops! Sorry. Here's the right one.

Adobe keynote at FITC Amsterdam

(I live-blogged this during the keynote; there may be typos, inaccuracies, etc. It has not been proof-read.) Mike Downey takes the stage. Mike's going to show us some sneak peeks today that haven't been shown before. Adobe released Flex 3 and AIR a few hours ago and Mike's kicking off the keynote with a history of AIR. AIR allows [...]

Nokia N800 + Flash Player = Perfect Video Blogging tool, or “Adobe should make implementing proper web cam support in the Linux Flash Player part of its mobile strategy”

Linux is an operating system that's used mainly by hardcore geeks who think in binary and don't mind spending hours compiling their own device drivers. Oh wait, sorry, the year is 2008, not 1998. Scratch that, today, Linux is the operating system that came pre-installed on my easy-to-use Asus Eee PC and my flashy little [...]

Amsterdambound

photo credit: sharedferret It's almost midnight, I haven't yet packed for Amsterdam, and the taxi's booked for 6am tomorrow to take Stephanie and me to the airport. So why the heck am I blogging? Don't forget to scribble in my session, Beyond the Buttons, into your schedule for Monday and come to the Influxis party [...]

Find and add Creative Commons Licensed photos to your blog from Flickr

photo credit: Guylaine2007 This sounds awesome: Photo Dropper is a Wordpress plugin to find and add Creative Commons licensed photos to your blog from Flickr. I haven't tried it yet but I'll update this post once I do. Read more about Photo Dropper on ReadWriteWeb. Update: Had a chance to install and test the plugin. It's [...]