Eric Paul Snowden is an artist and designer living in Brooklyn
Posts filed under Flash
11/01/2009
Believe the Hype
Branden Hall & Joshua Davis have created a new ActionScript 3 framework called HYPE, which simplifies a lot of complex actions in Flash like creating auto generating graphics, mouse followers and grid based patterns. Think of it as a how to be Joshua Davis toolkit. From the site: HYPE is a creative coding framework built [...]
11/01/2009
Adobe MAX Award nomination and conference participation
Last month, I attended the 2009 Adobe Max conference and wanted to share a few exciting developments at Atlantic Records in conjunction with Adobe and the Flash platform. We were nominated for a Max Award and showcased two new products, one for connected TVs and set top boxes and another for the connected car. Below [...]
10/15/2009
Designing iPhone apps using Adobe Flash CS5 and AIR
Arguably the biggest announcement from Adobe’s MAX conference last week was the (future) ability to create iPhone applications using Flash CS5. There were several sessions that materialized shortly after the announcement, but this session by Arno Gourdol was by far the most useful and practical. Check out the video below.
10/13/2009
Interview in Adobe’s Edge Newsletter
I was interviewed a few months ago by Adobe for an article titled “From black box to contextual applications” which ran in this month in Adobe’s Edge newsletter and on the Adobe.com site. The goal of a contextual application is to provide a unified experience across multiple devices, while leveraging the unique capabilities and qualities [...]
10/06/2009
Atlantic and Fanbase in Wired and Billboard
Today Atlantic Records and Fanbase received amazing mentions in Billboard and Wired Magazines. Rob Thomas was named one of Billboard’s Top 10 Wireless artists today in an article that highlights his early adoption of the Fanbase platform. They discuss his use of Fanbase Desktop, Fanbase Mobile for Flash Lite, and Fanbase for the iPhone as [...]
09/28/2009
Vote for Fanbase Mobile!
At Atlantic we have been working on a project called Fanbase for the last 18 months. Fanbase is a suite of applications that collect content about musicians from all over the web into a single spot that can be viewed on computers, phones and other devices. Earlier this year we won a Webby award, a [...]
09/12/2009
2009 Mobile Excellence Awards – Finalist
Fanbase Mobile is now a finalist for the 2009 Mobile Excellence Awards. We’ve been included in the Best Adapted or Companion Program category along with DirectTV and Zannel. Congrats to our partners at Agency.net who built the Flash Lite app for us. Check out our nomination here.
08/18/2009
Personas – How does the internet see you?
Personas is an amazing web app (with a Flex front end) that scours the internet for information based on a person’s name and builds a profile of how they are perceived online through natural language search. Since the application has no idea how to separate the list of people who share your name, it gives [...]
06/30/2009
Fanbase Mobile (iPhone) and the Fanbase Connected Album
Today Atlantic Records launched two important strategic projects for one of our most popular solo artists, Rob Thomas. Fanbase Mobile (for the iPhone) is a framework we have created, in conjunction with amazing development team at Gskinner.com, that is going to allow us to roll out flexible, scalable iPhone applications for all Atlantic artists. Check [...]
05/08/2009
How to use Twitter’s RSS Feeds in Flash without the Twitter API
Due to security changes by Twitter, Flash files not residing on the Twitter.com servers cannot directly access the RSS feeds of Twitter users. I’ve seen dozens of posts around the net regarding these changes and found a simple way to get around the restrictions using php. The issue – Flash cannot pull data from a [...]
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