Posts Tagged ‘flash lite’

Adobe MAX 2008

Monday, November 24th, 2008

I’ve had a few days to recoup from lack of sleep after Adobe’s MAX 2008 conference and wanted to recap the amazing experience I had at the conference, as well as share the involvement Atlantic had at MAX.

Max 2008 Keynote

On Monday we had our Flash Lite application Fanbase Mobile shown on stage by Kevin Lynch, the CTO of Adobe, in front of the press and a few throusand of our peers. Below is a video of our contribution to the keynote.

Fanbase Mobile

Beyond the keynote we had Fanbase running on both a Nokia N95 as well as a Blackjack II. It great to see it running on a few devices and get an idea of how it might scale across an entire product line using Flash Lite.

Adobe partner booth pics

On Tuesday, I tended to the Adobe partner booth and answered questions about the Fanbase AIR application for a few hours. It was great to get to talk to consumers and developers about the application and about Adobe’s AIR platform.

Sessions

In addition to the special conference events both Paul Sinclair (SVP of Digital Media) and I gave sessions. Paul was on a panel talking about the Open Screen Project from Adobe, which is an inititative to provide a consistent runtime and user experience across devices.

I also gave my own session on Tuesday “Atlantic Records: Connecting Fans with Bands”. I talked in depth about our new product plan around two key Atlantic artists, showing a full range of new media projects used to promote new releases.

You can watch the presentation here.

Two great services for Flash Lite developers

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

While building a Flash Lite prototype I stumbled upon two really great resources for developers both by Kuneri, an amazing Flash Lite company based in Finland.

The first is Swf Pack. It’s an online tool that lets you package up a Flash Lite application, assets and icons into a single .sis file that can be installed on Nokia phones. It really eases the development process and makes the installation of Flash Lite applications smooth and easy. 

Swf Pack

The second is an application called Kuneri Lite that allows you to extend the native capabilities of Flash Lite for Nokia phones. It gives you access to things like the accelerometer and camera. Definately worth checking out.

Kuneri Lite