wow..... the announcement today from Adobe about opening the Flash Player up to the market to be placed on any imaginable device is just stunning. This is going to place even more demand on people with Flash skills as these companies begin to produce handheld devices using the Flash Player.

The only thing in the press release that set off my BS detector was this.. "“The Open Screen Project will make it simple for Verizon and our partners to deliver rich mobile experiences to more devices,”" .. yeah, and how big of a fee will they charge developers before they can develop for the Verizon network?

I also noticed that there was no mention of Apple in that press release.

Mike Chambers posted an update on his blog about the rebuilding-moving-updating of MXNA. I've been getting my fix from fullasagoog for a while since MXNA was beginning to be overwhelming.

Oh.. some random things.. Gregarius, Rubicon .. I've been having some fun with those.

There’s a (somewhat) new Flash Player in beta.  I saw all the buzz about it last week (it even hit front page of digg..).  I was just looking at the post Tinic put on his blog to see what people had to say about it since quite a few people went there.

Wow.  There’s a lot of noise there from the Linux folks wanting a 64-bit version of the Flash Player and other “special interests”, but also lots of opinions on the pros and cons of H.264 and Flash.  It’s worth perusing to see other perspectives on this new and rather huge development in Flash/Flex/Air.

So I was cruising through eBay this morning before work and spotted some Macromedia stuff on eBay.

WTF?  People are bidding on Studio 8

and even Studio MX.

Then a little digging and I see why..  Adobe has (on their US store) a $600 difference between a full version and an upgrade version of CS3 Web Standard.  So if someone buys a legitimate (and that’s the key) license of Studio MX, MX2004, or Studio 8 on eBay for $500 and then uses it to upgrade then they’ve saved $100.  Not too shabby if you can get a real legitimate license off of eBay.

Here’s somebody asking $349 for an Educational license of Studio MX ..  The last time I checked you couldn’t upgrade from educational to a full version and the educational version of CS3 Web Standard is $399..  hmm. 

Now.. I wonder what’s up with people buying Flash Media Server on eBay?  Lots of paypal cash laying around I guess.