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.

Way back in the "Central" days "occasionally connected" were the buzzwords that were used to describe apps that were aware of when they had Net connection and therefore allowed the user to work online/offline seamlessly (or almost anyway).
The rumors of Apollo also seem to be continuing this trend, in that it will allow Flash developers to create desktop apps that are capable of being "occasionally connected".

So.. with that in mind, take a look at Scrybe. From the video it looks like it's totally browser based (not an Apollo app) and has some really interesting features.

(firefox didn't catch the typo in that title, eh? hehe..)

Say what? That's what I said when I read this post yesterday.. then I went and RTFA and it still didn't make much sense and then I read this article. I watched a couple of the videos and said "ahh.. thanks, but I'll pass".

I'm ok with Microsoft making a bunch of videos claiming that Visual Studio 2005 has some (101) features that Dreamweaver doesn't. Really I am. Competition is good, and if MS is going to push Adobe to deliver an even better tool then "good on em". But what threw me for a loop was that these two products have been out for roughly a year (ages in web time, right?)... and the datestamps on the videos are from the end of June. The videos refer to Dreamweaver as "Macromedia Dreamweaver" and imho aren't very well done. So why is Microsoft putting these videos out now, and why are these (paid?) bloggers promoting them?

FrontPage 2003 is "end-of-lifing" soon, so maybe Microsoft is trying to convince Managers that they have another product?
Maybe Visual Studio 2005 isn't selling well and they needed something to help it out??
Maybe Microsoft sees Dreamweaver 9 coming?