Introductory Flash Lite eSeminars

Adobe Pacific are running a series of eSeminars on Flash Lite, with yours truly speaking at each of them on various topics related to Flash Lite development and the wider ecosystem.

These are targeted as introductory sessions that don't get too heavy on code samples, but take a look at some of the features and aspects of Flash Lite, and how they relate to real world solutions or products.

This week's session was on Flash Lite and the Nokia Web Runtime (WRT) platform, and you can find the recording of that sessions here.

Here's the schedule for the upcoming eSeminars:

• July 9th - Adobe Flash Lite Widgets for the Chumby
• July 23rd - Reactive Mobile Content with Adobe Flash Lite
• Aug 6th - Persistent Data in Adobe Flash Lite
• Aug 20 - Tips and Tricks for Effective Adobe Flash Lite development

Each of the sessions can be accessed by visiting http://pacific.adobe.acrobat.com/mobile, and start at 2pm (AEST - +10 GMT).

Thanks to the local Adobe office for organising these, in amongst the other regular eSeminars that they run each week (up to about 7 per week now!)

webDU 2008 Wrap Up

Well, webDU has come and gone for another year, but I have a feeling that this year was different. I knew that numbers seemed to be up on previous years from discussion I had been having with Geoff and the Daemon team. These guys are first class event organisers, not to mention first class people, and I very much appreciate the work they do each year to run webDU. It just seemed to me that the number and enthusiasim of delegates, the quality of the sessions, and the overall vibe of the conference was on a higher level to previous years. It was great to be around - motivating, inspiring, and a lot of fun.

The content
As per ususal the main technologies were covered - Flash, Flex, AIR, Colf Fusion, Mobile, CSS, AJAX, JavaScript, 3D. I managed to see both keynotes (a rarity for Day 2 since the evening activities of Day 1 normally wipe out a lot of us for an early start the next day!) and both were great. Mike Downey and Greg Rewis had their schtick down pat for showing off AIR and some new features of Flash, Dreamweaver and Fireworks CS4. Tim Buntel on Day 2 had a great session on the next top 5 trends we'll see in web, and although remaining sceptical over timing (as we all have been really Tim), he did outline Mobile (Flash Lite, AIR Mobile) as a big trend to watch for in the coming years.


Some other sessions I attended was Mobile Web 2.0 with Gary Chan from Forum Nokia (talking on WRT and the opportunities for web developers on Nokia), Michael Wise and his crazy box of fun (hooking up Flash to Wii remotes, multi-touch surfaces, RFID and GPS), and Brian Chau on ActionScript 3.

Mobile
From a mobile point of view, I think we did ok (as well as Gary, I spoke on FLV and Flash Lite 3) for a web conference. This was my 5th webDU, and 4th as a speaker, and every year I speak on Flash Lite. I have a feeling that next year I will have some better opportunities to speak about, but for the main, I felt that we covered the mobile aspect pretty well considering that most people come to webDU for Flex, AIR, CF and Flash. There may be some photos circulating soon that show the extent that I went to in order to draw a crowd to my session - and that's all I'll say right now.

A shout out to Gary, Ung-Ping, Hawa, and the other nice lady on the Forum Nokia stand whose name embaressingly evades me at this moment (!) to say thank you for getting involved with webDU the way you did.

The fun
The "event" this year was a little bit more relaxed than the banquets of previous years. This year, we had the total run of a bowling/bar/laser tag/karaoke entertainment centre for the night. I will say that while my bowling score was pretty average, it was enough to snatch victory for me on the final frame :) A word of warning - playing laser tag with Darren Tracey and Mark Mandel can be hazardous to your health, if you are on the opposing team. The trading card game was a massive success and I look forward to seeing the concept trademarked, patented and rolled out for large licensing royalties at other "big technology conferences" by Kai and Minty ;) Well done boys.



We have the speaker party on tonight which always proves to be a lot of fun and a great time to hang out and get to talk with some really clever people in a very relaxed setting. I won't ever forget Mike Downey doing Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen at the karaoke machine one year, or watching Ted Patrick kick everyone's butt on Wii Tennis. Ahh, these are the memories :)

So for all of you who have always heard about webDU but have never made it, it's getting better every year so make sure that 2009 is the year you finally come to one of the best conferences in the world.

UPDATE: Just reading through my Google Reader this morning and found Alessandro has already spotted some of my webDU antics via Flashmagazine.

Adobe Online Creative Festival

A new concept in events has been launched today by the Adobe Pacific team - The Adobe Online Creative Festival is now open for registrations.



Taking place on July 1st, 2008 customers will be able to attend a virtual creative festival. Take a look at the box office - Sam and the team at Cyberbia have created a rich user experience for those registering, which really has set the bar for the event itself. So what will happen on July 1st in our virtual field of fun (from 11am - 4pm AEST) ...

• There will be two live stream, one Adobe presenters, one Adobe customer
• Pre recorded tips and tricks
• Gallery where customers can post their work
• Chat area where you can speak with the presenters
• Concessions stand with great buys, offers and free festival stuff
  

I'll be presenting an Adobe Live session at 11.45am called "Giving Your Mobile Real Personality".

All this creative chaos and no mud in sight! Visit www.adobeonlinefestival.com to register and for all the infomation you need.

Take a look, tell your customers about it - Get into the festival spirit - roam, chat, share and learn - all from the convenience of your own desk.

Fixing Flash Lite 3

Didn't know it was broken? Well, depends on who you talk to I guess. Even back when FL 3 was in beta, there were discussions flying around to do with the new security model that Flash Lite was "inheriting" from Flash Player 8, and that essentially we would find that backwards compatibility for many FL apps would be broken. For a recently posted developer's perspective, read Ugur's post here.

The MaD team have always been listening and through Bill have announced that there are some fixes coming along shortly. Aaprt from potentially fixing the issue Flash Lite developers have had with Flash Lite 3, it demonstrates Adobe's ability to change as a result of the combined community voice. It takes a lot to change, especially in the mobile world where the device vendors control such a large part of the ecosystem, so this is not an insignificant announcement. Thanks Adobe and MaD team.

Adobe Mobile Gallery launches

Adobe launched their new Adobe Mobile Gallery today - a nice RIA for demonstrating the depth of Flash Lite products being produced around the world. We're pleased to have a number of Moket products in there, including our GoPets animations, the first Dojo Monkey game, and also our MoCarbon wallpapers. I'm also pleased to see many contributors to the Moket Content Network repesented in the gallery.

MAX 2008/09 locations announced

Looks as though MAX 2008 will spill over into 2009 - must be big :)

• MAX US - San Francisco, California (Nov 16-19 2008)
• MAX Europe - Milan, Italy (Dec 1-4 2008)
• MAX Japan - Tokyo (2009)
  

Looking forward to it again this year!

Upcoming Adobe Mobile eSeminars

There are a number of upcoming Adobe eSeminars related to mobile development which would be worthwhile checking out:

Getting Started with Flash Lite 3 and CS3
Presenter: Bill Perry
Monday, March 24, 2008
11:00 A.M. PDT

Flash Lite and Flex for Tourism
Presenters: Michael Epstein/Ira Hochman
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
11:00 A.M. PDT

Blood from a Stone: Flash Game Optimization on Low-end mobile devices
Presenter: Evan Kirchhoff
Thursday, March 27, 2008
1:00 P.M. PDT

Register for these sessions here

Device Central Update #5 Available

Device Profile Update #5 is now available on Adobe Device Central Online. Stay on top of new Flash Lite devices from around the world by downloading CS3 Device Profile Update #5, released on February 16, 2008, as well as preceding device updates. This update features the first Flash Lite 3.0 devices available in the market.

Important! Before downloading Update #4, you must FIRST download and install the Flash® Lite™ 3 Update for Device Central CS3 and for Flash CS3 Professional (2 separate updates).

Adobe Mobile Podcast Series

Watch or listen to this podcast series aimed at creative professionals new to mobile, as Adobe host John Agger walks you through tutorials on mobile content creation. The Adobe Mobile Podcast series is created in partnership with Terry White’s Creative Suite Video podcast and includes the following episodes:

• Why mobile is important
  
• Mobile & Devices Part 2
• Getting started with mobile

Chizen steps down as Adobe CEO

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced its Board of Directors has appointed current president and chief operating officer Shantanu Narayen as its president and chief executive officer, effective December 1, 2007. Narayen will also join Adobe’s Board of Directors at that time. Narayen replaces Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen, who will serve the remainder of his term on Adobe’s Board of Directors through the Spring of 2008 and continue in a strategic advisory capacity through the end of fiscal year 2008.

Read the full press release here

Where is Adobe in Google's OMHA?

This week saw the big announcement from Google relating to the upcoming Google Phone, where they discussed the Open Mobile Handset Alliance. Basically it is the group of companies (set to grow I imagine over time) that are wolrking on solutions for the Google Phone's open hardware/software platform.

One noticeable name not on the list (noticeable to me anyway) is Adobe.

I would have thought that given the amount of time this whole Google Phone thing has been gearing up, and the prospect of a mobile device from one of the largest companies in the world (not to mention a seemingly more open platform to work with), that Adobe would have been all over this from the point of view of making sure that this thing is Flash/Flash Lite enabled.

I don't profess to have indepth knowledge of how Adobe's internal decisions are made at this level, because this is a much higher level than most Flash Lite developers generally appreciate. But I would hate it if next year at the MAX conference, people were walking around with their Google Phones and the MaD team were having to field the question, "so why doesn't it have Flash on it?" like they did this year with the iPhone.

Maybe they ARE all over it and just haven't formally announced anything yet - all of which is perfectly acceptable. It would have been nice though to see the red and white logo there at the time of the OMHA unveiling for some "market confidence".

Developing Adobe Flash Lite 3 Applications for Nokia Devices

Bill Perry is delivery an upcoming webinar for Flash Lite 3 application development. Here are the details:

Wednesday, October 24, 20079:00 A.M. PDT

With more than 62 different Nokia models worldwide with Flash Lite pre-installed, the market opportunity for developing mobile Flash content is expanding, and you can be a part of it. The newest version of Flash Lite supports ActionScript 2.0 and introduces support for Flash Video (found on sites like YouTube) based on Flash Player 8. See Flash Lite 3 examples on the latest and greatest Nokia devices and learn how you can get started with Flash Lite development. This eSeminar will introduce you to the entire workflow for Flash Lite 3 development, from concept, to design, to determining addressable devices, to selling your content and getting paid. Learn how to create compelling content for multiple devices by using the integrated development environment of Adobe Creative Suite® 3 tools, including Flash, Device Central, Photoshop®, Premiere Pro®, and After Effects®.

By attending this session you will learn:

• The difference between Flash Lite 2.x and 3
• How to embed an FLV into your Flash Lite 3 application
• New security settings that you need to be aware of

Attend an eSeminar and you'll be entered to win a copy of Adobe Flash Professional CS3 or an iriver Clix.

Register here. Questions? Please send us an e-mail.

Moket - an Adobe Case Study

Moket has been featured on Adobe.com in the Showcase section. It's a pleasure to be up there alongside some of the great Flash Lite related companies going around at the moment.

MAX Mobile Session Summary

MAX is only weeks away, so I wanted to remind everyone of the fantastic Flash Lite / Mobile sessions that are going to be available to conference goers. "Tickets still available!" as they say ...
Introduction to Flash Lite 2 (Training Day)
Sunday 30th Sept - 9.00am - 5pm
This session is a deep-diving workshop on developing Flash Lite content and applications. We'll begin with a general Flash Lite tutorial and then move on to more detailed information on how to develop content for mobile operators, including Verizon Wireless.

From Desktop to Mobile: New Revenue Opportunities
Monday 1st Oct - 11.30am
Wednesday 3rd Oct - 1.45pm
Learn how you can make money by selling your Flash Lite content through various mobile content aggregators worldwide. If you already know Flash, then you have the potential to create Flash Lite content and generate recurring revenue for your creativity and ideas. In this session, we'll explore the entire workflow for mobile content creation, from concept development and design to determining addressable devices, selling your content, and getting paid on a recurring basis.

Creating Flash Lite Multiplayer Games
Monday 1st Oct - 11.30am
Tuesday 2nd Oct - 1.30pm
The market for multiplayer games is growing. Learn how you can take your existing desktop Flash skills and leverage them to create multiplayer Flash Lite games using Flash Lite 2.1 and Flash Lite 3. You’ll learn the process involved in developing, testing, and deploying your multiplayer games to consumers worldwide.

XD: Designing Engaging Mobile Experiences
Monday 1st Oct - 2.00pm
Wednesday 3rd Oct - 3pm
This session will cover the guiding principles for designing engaging mobile experiences, an entirely new class of mobile services. Engaging mobile experiences put the user experience first. As a result, these experiences prioritize usability, offer new services, and deliver content instantaneously. More importantly, they build a powerful affinity with the user. They provide experiences that are expressive, memorable, and more desirable. Come learn the fundamental aspects of such experiences.

Creating Flash Cast Channels for Verizon Wireless
Monday 1st Oct - 2.00pm
Tuesday 2nd Oct - 9.15am
Be among the first to build and monetize Flash Cast channels for Verizon Wireless. Use Flash CS3 Professional to deliver compelling content to North America’s second largest mobile operator. Learn the process for creating and testing Flash Cast channels and how Verizon Wireless plans to enable a Flash Cast ecosystem in North America.

Flash Lite 3 Development.
Monday 1st Oct - 3.15pm
Tuesday 2nd Oct - 4.00pm
The newest version of Flash Lite introduces support for FLV and many other exciting new features. Learn how to create compelling content for multiple devices, from smart phones to consumer electronics devices. Be the first to see Flash Lite 3 demos on the latest and greatest handsets.

Mobile Workflows with Creative Suite 3 Web Premium
Monday 1st Oct - 3.15pm
Wednesday 3rd Oct - 10.30am
Discover how to create and reuse web content such as video and images for mobile devices using Adobe Device Central CS3, the all-new mobile authoring and device intelligence tool that’s integrated across Creative Suite 3. We'll touch on Flash CS3 Professional, Photoshop CS3, Dreamweaver CS3, and more. Learn tips and tricks to design, preview, and test engaging mobile content across various handsets.

20 Tricks to Improve Flash Lite Development
Tuesday 2nd Oct - 9.15am
Wednesday 3rd Oct - 1.45pm
Boost your efficiency and speed time to market with these 20 tips and tricks for improving Flash Lite development. Flash Lite experts will teach you how to optimize content, streamline workflows, and take full advantage of Adobe Device Central CS3, the new mobile authoring and device intelligence tool integrated across Adobe Creative Suite 3.

Flash Lite Success Story
Tuesday 2nd Oct - 2.45pm
Wednesday 3rd Oct - 4.15pm
Design Assembly, one of the top Flash Lite studios in Europe, has published several high-quality Flash Lite games enjoyed by consumers worldwide. Find out how this small company with a passion for Flash created a growing business on Flash Lite, and discover the many go-to-market opportunities available to Flash Lite developers.

Mobile and Devices Boot Camp
Wednesday 3rd Oct - 9.15am
Boot Camp provides a mixture of short presentations, workshops, and free-form coding. The Mobile and Devices User Group managers are planning an exciting and interesting three-hour collaborative session. Make sure to bring your laptop, your best questions, your most desired features, your coolest projects to share, and be ready to learn something new.

Best Practices: Designing & Developing content for the Sony PSP using Adobe Flash software

There's a new Adobe eSeimar coming up that we wanted to tell you all about:

Best Practices: Designing & Developing content for the Sony PSP using Adobe Flash software

Presented by Chris Blair and Jeff Nusz, Zodal (NZ)
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
1:00 P.M. PDT

There are many new opportunities to be found in delivering software services, content, and entertainment to your audience through screen-based devices supporting Adobe® Flash® and Adobe Flash Lite™ software. For game developers, support for content created using Adobe Flash on Sony's PSP® (PlayStation® Portable) game console is a great way to reach a new, diverse, and ever-growing pool of consumers on the go.

Using examples from fun games developed by Zodal, Chris Blair and Jeff Musz will demonstrate the PSP's strengths, limitations, and unique quirks that game designers and developers need to understand before creating content for it. They will look at specific techniques for maximizing the PSP's resources based on experience developing mobile games with Flash Lite 1.1 and Flash Lite 2.1 technology. They will also look at strategies for developing cross-platform games targeted across desktops, mobile phones, and portable devices such as the Sony PSP.

What you'll learn by attending this webinar:

• The nuances in creating content for the Sony PSP using Flash Lite software
• How to manage and maximize the resources available on the PSP vis-à-vis Flash Lite
• How to reach new audiences as a games developer
• How to create cross-platform games from desktop and mobile devices to portable electronic devices

REGISTER HERE

Also, attend an eSeminar and you'll be entered to win a copy of Adobe Flash Professional CS3 or an iriver™ Clix!

Moket featured in latest Adobe "Plugged In"

I've been very kindly featured in the latest Adobe (ANZ) "Plugged In" eNewsletter, talking about Moket and Flash Lite - click here for the online version. Thanks to Mark and the Sydney office for the support!

My gig at Adobe MAX 2007 in Chicago

The Adobe MAX 2007 site posted up the speakers last night and I'm happy to say that my name was on it. It's like getting picked for the basketball team all over again ... ahh the memories. Anyway, I'm going to be doing a new kind of session this year - tag team presenting with my mate Alessandro Pace of Biskero.org fame for a session called "20 Tricks to Improve Flash Lite Development". Should be a lot of fun!

The at-a-glance agenda has also been posted.

I'm going to be helping out James too with his pre-conference training day on Flash Lite 2. I did this last year too for James, and it was like running with the bulls - casue of the limited time and amount of content, he gets through the training like he's on speed, and everyone in the room (including his teaching assistants!) just have to hang on for the ride :) Love ya work Kim Chi.

Also at MAX this year, there are a number of product "boot camps" - basically they're like 3 hour birds-of-a-feather sessions that go into detail on various aspects of specific products. A lot of the mobile user group managers from around the world will be involved in the running of the Flash Lite / Mobile and Devices Boot Camp. This is a great initiative which will allow us to get some good visibility at a conference which will be dominated by AIR, Flex, PDF and LiveCycle.

Really looking forward to the end of Septemer :)

MAX pre-conference training announced

The pre-conference training sessions for North America MAX 2007 have been announced on the MAX blog. They include sessions on:

• Unlocking Cross-Media Workflows
• Introduction to Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium (Windows Lab)
• Introduction to Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium (MAC Lab)
• Introduction to Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web
• Introduction to Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production
• LiveCycle ES: Building
• Flex 3: Integrating with ColdFusion
• Flex 3: Integration with Java
• Flex 3: Developing Rich Client Applications
• Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR): Bringing Rich Internet Applications to the Desktop
• What's New in ColdFusion 8
• Building ColdFusion Applications around Design Patterns
• Introduction to Flash Lite 2

Head to MAX 2007 registration to get on board!

Adobe MAX 2007 Registration for North America now open

Registrations are now being taken for Adobe MAX 2007 for North America. I can't believe that things are gearing up again - it seems like only last month that we were all hanging out in Vegas at the last conference! This year is looking like being a ripper - it's in a very cool town (Chicago), there's been some cool advances on the product front (think AIR, Flex 3, Flash Lite 3, all the CS3 stuff), and it's always fun when you get to catch up with people from all over the world.

I can tell you that there's going to be some cool mobile stuff happening as well (stay tuned) so there'll be plenty to get excited about for the Flash Lite'rs who can make it. Then of course there's Europe (Barcelona) and Japan (Tokyo) MAX in November as well!

Watch the Adobe MAX website for updates.

Adobe AIR (Apollo) is available on Labs

Well, Apollo has moved out of alpha and the new beta has a new name, presumably what it will now be called for release - Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime). AIR is now available for download from Adobe Labs and should continue to give developers tools to press claims for the desktop space. No more mention about how this might eventually cross onto the mobile space through.

Some quick eyes and wits on various lists have already pointed out that a) AIR is RIA backwards (oohhh spooky!), b) Adobe has moved into the holy grail of software sales, where they really do make money from selling "air".

Ahh IT professionals, so hillarious, so insightful. No wonder we spend too much time on Twitter and not enough time with real people :)

Total Training goes online

Total Training is launching an online service for its training resources. This is a great initative and one that I'm sure will see their range of products taken up by many more students. Don't forget for you mobile enthusiasts there's Flash Lite 2.x training up there that many people have already purchased and found very useful.

• Premium quality, in-depth videos, produced in high definition
• Online access to Adobe software training 24/7
• Extraordinary, beautiful interface packed with features

Read more here - http://www.totaltraining.com/landing/online.asp?c=blog&n=ttbz

Flash Lite 2.1 Roadshow for the US

Adobe has organized a road show in several US cities to show Flash Lite 2.1 for Brew and the new mobile features of Adobe CS3. You can catch the guys from Adobe, Verizon, Qualcomm, Smashing Ideas and Atom Shockwave here:

• Wednesday, April 25th New York, NY
• Thursday, April 26th Boston, MA
• Tuesday, May 1st Chicago, IL
• Thursday, May 3rd Atlanta, GA
• Tuesday, May 8th Austin, TX
• Thursday, May 10th Seattle, WA
• Tuesday, May 15th San Francisco, CA
• Wednesday, May 16th San Diego, CA
• Thursday, May 17th Los Angeles, CA

The one-day seminar will highlights such as:

• How to monetize your Flash Lite 2.1 for BREW content
• Share best practices for developing Flash Lite for BREW content for Verizon Wireless
• Learn the ins and outs of Qualcomm’s BREW platform
• Learn to develop and test mobile content with Adobe Creative Suite 3 and Adobe Device Central CS3

View the agenda here and register here.

Release the CS3 Beast!

The Adobe CS3 software packages have been released with much fanfare and anticipation. It'll be in store starting from April, but today /tonight there gave been videocasts being broadcast all over the place to see the launch event first hand.

One of the cooler aspects for me is of course Device Central CS3 which forms a central piece of many of the new CS3 packages. See your content developed in Flash, Dreamweaver or Photoshop displayed and tested in context of over 200 devices (list updated quarterly as per current "Device Updates"). Flash Lite takes a big spotlight here and that's only a good thing.

And so begins what is the biggest software release undertaken by Adobe!

New CS3 Icons

Via John Nack. This little carousel has been produced by Lee at The Flash Blog, showing all the newly designed icons for Adobe CS3 and related products. John also has the "icon colour wheel" that shows the whole suite. Personally, I actually liked the old circular ones that Macromedia had for Studio 8 better. These don't jump out at me like something from a creative company should. I don't know ... what do you think?

Total Training Flash Lite DVD Excerpts on Adobe.com

Adobe.com have posted some excerpts from my recently released training DVD - Total Training for Adobe Flash Lite 2.1 : Creating Mobile Applications. You can find the tutorials in the Flash Lite Dev Centre.

You can watch video samples from the "Handling Device Keypress Events" section, featuring topics like:

• Adding ActionScript 2.0 to control soft keys
• Creating a global key listener
• Defining key functions
• Changing visual content on key events

Enjoy!

200 Million devices and counting

Adobe say that 200 million devices have shipped now with Flash Lite, and there are now 300 device models out there.

That's a lot of phones ... getting to some kind of level now where the numbers start to stack up for clients. Noice.

New Flash Lite News

'Tis the season for new announcements! Don't you love it when a big conference rolls around and all the big boys who have been saving up their fireworks let them all out of the bag. Well 3GSM has started with a bang, with the announcemnt first of Flash Lite 3. The new release is centered around the support for FLV - Flash Video. This means that your FL content will be ableto work in with Flash Media Server and other streaming services, plus leverage the massive amount of FLV content that is in the market these days (anyone heard of a little site called YouTube?).

Flash Home is the other "product" that was unveiled - a customisable Flash Lite home screen for your device. This is a white label product that is pitched for carriers, MVNO's, etc. Some of the key features are:

• Flexible, data-enabled home screens
• On-device catalog for easy discovery, preview, and management of home screens
• Support for rich media, including FLV files, text, audio, and vector graphics
• Over-the-air updates of branded user interfaces
• Extensible architecture
• Powerful mobile authoring capabilities

I'm sure there'll be more coming soon! Stay tuned party people ...

Apollo Video from Mike Chambers

For those who have had their heads under a rock somehwere for the past 12 months or so, Adobe are really gearing up for their new product called Apollo. The merging of Flash, Flex, HTML, etc into a desktop environment is very much a priority for them right now, getting loads of airtime at the recent MAX conference and I'm sure will be shown in more depth at the upcoming webDU 2007. Mike Chambers from Adobe posted this video online showing Christian Cantrell and a few Apollo apps he's been working on. A good watch if you want to see exactly what they're talking about.

Vote for Flash Lite

This post is a little late but hey I'm still jet-lagged! For those of you who haven't already seen on the many other blogs and forums, Flash Lite has been nominated for a Developer.com Award in the category of Wireless / Mobile Development Tool / Add-in of the Year.

When you have a moment, please vote for Flash Lite plus pass it on to your friends and spread the word. The deadline is Nov 30th and the winners will be announced in Jan 07.