My most recent musical adventure was a concept built around “5″. 5 members, 5 shows, and a recording of 5 original songs. And it didn’t stop there! You can now buy The Five’s 5 track EP, “For Five Nights Only” in 5 different formats, sold as a package:
7″ vinyl single – Side A (played at 45rpm with 3 songs)
7″ vinyl single – Side B (played at 33rpm with 2 songs)
CD (played at 500rpm) with the original 5 tracks, plus a bonus 5 songs
Sheet music for unrecorded track “Murders and Burgers”
Digital downloads from sources such as iTunes, or for free if you buy the package
There’s been some cool reviews as well recently which you can find at www.thefive.com.au. Check it out, support local Aussie music and think about bringing some of The Five home to your music collection!
It’s conference season at the moment for geeks, and one of the best going around is of course Sydney’s own webDU. This is seriously one of the best conferences for the web and technology industries, and always delivers a high standard of content and entertainment
This will be my 7th webDU, and 6th as a speaker. This year I’ll be speaking about mobile marketplaces and the technologies that allow us to go to market quickly, and there’s some other great mobile content at the conference as well, including a great session from Rod Farmer and Oliver Weidlich.
I encourage you to get along to webDU this year – this time at a new venue at the famous Bondi Beach!
To me, this is something to really get excited about – not just because of what the Flash Platform is going to bring to tablet devices, but because of what the future of media publishing looks like. I would read more of a magazine and engage more with advertising content if I could get it like this.
(PS Is anyone else having issues with the video starting to play or is it just me? If you experience problems (I’m in Firefox), then I also got the video to work on the XD Blog)
There’s been a flurry of activity on the Adobe Developer Connection site recently due to this being the silly season for corporate announcements around mobile. Take a look at these articles and whitepapers to understand where the Flash Platform has moved to and how you will need to evolve as a Flash developer to make the most of this brave new(ish) world.
Thibault Imbert from Adobe has also authored a substantial document titled “Optimizing Mobile Content for the Adobe Flash Platform” which you can download as PDF here.
It’s great to see more and more resources being developed to assist Flash developers and designers make the jump to producing work for the small screen, but I’m mindful of the common misnomer that continues to be spoken about when looking at a “write-once, deploy-everywhere” approach to Flash development. Particularly now that Adobe AIR has been announced for devices, and the reality of a technical solution for dropping a single AIR file onto multiple devices, it’s vitally important to take a step back and remember that the user experiences for these multiple devices are very different. Read More
I'm currently the Experience Architect and Team Lead for the "Appland" team at Vodafone Hutchison Australia, based in Sydney. Views on this blog are my own and not that of my employer. More about me.
My most recent musical adventure was a concept built around “5″. 5 members, 5 shows, and a recording of 5 original songs. And it didn’t stop there! You can now buy The Five’s 5 track EP, “For Five Nights Only” in 5 different formats, sold as a package:
