Coghead 2.0 flips to Adobe Flash and Amazon EC2
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The hosted application-assembly service moves to Adobe's Flex development environment and Amazon's hosted computing infrastructure.
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Macromedia on Tuesday is announcing a video kit to enable users of its authoring tools suite, Macromedia Studio MX 2004 with Flash Professional, to more easily add video to their Web sites.
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Company hopes to boost use of its Flash format for delivering streaming video with new development kit.
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InfoWorld - Honing in on browser incompatibility issues in Web development, Adobe Systems on Thursday is launching CSS Advisor, a Web site that documents these problems and offers solutions.
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(InfoWorld) - Adobe Systems on Tuesday is announcing Adobe Captivate 2, an upgraded version of its Flash-based software for developing computer-based demonstrations and interactive simulations. Geared to e-learning professionals, trainers, and others who provide computer-based instruction, Captivate 2 generates interactive content in Flash and does not require users have programming knowledge or multimedia skills, Adobe said. New in version 2 are workflow enhancements for developing scenario-based training that visually branches out to different learner paths depending on the user's choices. A simulation wizard in version 2 helps in developing "soft skills" simulations, adding content to placeholder slides and setting up branching with point-and-click functionality. Soft skills are skills relating to the ability to communicate with other people, such as in customer support, Adobe said. A placeholder slide is an empty slide to help authors get started with presentations. A zoom capability in version 2, meanwhile, lets users zoom into specific areas of the screen. "Adobe Captivate is a tool that empowers people," to do things they could not do before, said Silke Fleischer, product marketing manager for Adobe Captivate. Flash video can be imported into Captivate presentations. Captivate 2 content can be integrated with other e-learning systems such as Macromedia Breeze, Macromedia Authorware, and Questionmark Perception. Available on October 5, Adobe Captivate 2 costs an estimated $599. Registered users can upgrade for an estimated price of $299.
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Mike Potter is happy to announce that Adobe is officially a "Gold Sponsor" of the upcoming Zend/PHP Conference & Expo as well as a mention of his involvement at the conference.   I'm happy to announce that Adobe will be sponsoring the Zend / PHP Conference and Expo in San Jose in late October.  I have a speaking session there on Rich Internet Applications, and we'll have a booth where we'll be showing off integrating Adobe Flex with PHP, using open source tools such as AMFPHP or WebORB from the Midnight Coders.   He also reminds potential conference-goers that the Early Bird discount is still in effect (until September 15th - just two more days!) to get the dicsounted price. Head over and register today!
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Adobe Integrated Runtime paves the way for Web applications that perform like desktop-bound programs.Images: Building apps on AIR
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Latest PECL Releases:imagick 2.0.1RC1APC 3.0.15expect 0.2.4Xdebug 2.0.1
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Blog: The Web and the desktop are increasingly blurring, as Adobe's Apollo project demonstrates. Unfortunately, open-source licensing remains in beta while we're about to go into production.
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I've not made much of a secret of the fact that I've been working on a new product, and am getting close to offering it as a public pre-alpha thing for Mac users only.  It's fairly Flickr-centric, sucking photos down from Flickr in a variety of ways and pushing up photos in others. Like Radio 8 and Google Reader, it has the ability to maintain an output feed of stuff you want to pass on to friends and associates. As I was developing this I wished that Flickr had the ability to store simple text files, because I needed a place to put an RSS 2.0 feed with enclosures on behalf of each user. Of course I used Amazon S3, but I had to implement my own lightweight identity system so that Juan couldn't accidentally or intentionally replace Alice's feed. If only every user had a place where they could store stuff that's net accessible so that once and for all we could stop inventing new places. I was inspired to write about this when I read an Uncov review of Pownce where they reminded me that they were reselling S3 storage at a big markup. What if the users had their own S3 storage that they paid for themselves?  Then it occurred to me to ask if people thought S3 could be an end-user thing. I'd like to find out, so if some non-technical users who have Amazon accounts would like to try setting up an S3 account, I'd be interested in hearing how it goes. Here's an idea of how you get started. 1. You must already have an Amazon account. Nothing special about it, if you buy shirts or books or stereo equipment from Amazon, you use the same account for S3 storage. Already that's pretty easy, millions of people have Amazon accounts, right? 2. Visit this page on Amazon, ignore all the stuff about objects and buckets. In the right margin is a big button that says "Sign up for this web service." Click the button. A very familiar page appears, asking you to sign into your Amazon account as if you were going to buy something (you are!). 3. From there, I'm not sure what you see, because I have already enabled my account. But the end result of signing up is that you get two strings with weird names: Your Access Key ID and Your Secret Access Key. Any software that would save a document in S3-space on your behalf would need these two strange strings. In return each document would have a URL just like any other document on the web. Nothing strange about that.  4. You could also use the space to store stuff using an FTP-like app that runs in Firefox called S3 Organizer. It's about as hard to use as the Mac Finder or the Windows Explorer, i.e. it's no challenge for a moderately geeky user. The cool thing about it is that you're able to share anything you upload into S3 space with anyone else. You can even use BitTorrent to access any file to save you bandwidth bills and distribute the load round the net. It's all very easy to do, imho. As a developer who has to pay for his users' storage needs I would very much like to see users learn how to use S3 to store their stuff, so I can focus on writing software and fixing bugs instead of paying to store your stuff.
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Adobe is readying tools, including the next version Flash Player, to make video-rich, interaction Web applications.
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Adobe says high dynamic range photography and panorama creation are in Lightroom's purview. Also: why the software development kit isn't as easy as you might think.
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Adobe debuted updates to both its Adobe Photoshop Elements photo editing software and Premiere Elements video editing suite on Tuesday, which it billed as major upgrades to both products. The company also rolled out a photo sharing site called Showcase.
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Adobe late with Photoshop Elements for Mac...iStockphoto tightens model release requirements...Canon 5D Mark II rumor...PDF now an ISO standard
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Adobe is providing some new collaboration tools with the release of its Acrobat 8 upgrade. The PDF pioneer also released Acrobat Connect today, a new product line that enables users to conduct Web conferences through online meeting rooms using Flash Player software.
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No patch in sight Researchers from Google have documented serious vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash content which leave tens of thousands websites susceptible to attacks that steal the personal details of visitors.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Coghead, an early pioneer in the creation of a Web 2.0 application development platform, announced a deal on Thursday with British Telecom (BT) that will give Coghead developers access to BT's telephony services and, by extension, its 1 million customers. Coghead also announced a low-cost package of SaaS (software as a service)-based applications dubbed Business Essentials for small business. Business Essentials includes applications for asset tracking, project management, access to company directories, lead management, and PTO (paid time off) management and recruitment. According to Laurie McCabe, vice president of SMB insights and solutions at AMI-Partners, Coghead is one of the first to tap into the need for very small businesses to automate their manual systems. "The legacy stuff out there isn't going to do the job if you look at cost and ease of use for those packaged applications," said McCabe. Even pricing for some of the early SaaS providers of services for SMBs is out of range for smaller businesses. "You might be spending $200 to $300 a month once you add in all the add-on services at Salesforce.com," McCabe said. Instead, Coghead is offering a flat rate of $10 per user, per month for its entire suite of applications. Asset Tracking will track electronic assets and provides a template for maintenance schedules. Basic Project Manager includes file sharing and resource management. Company Directory offers departmental data and reporting hierarchy. Lead Management tracks contacts, leads, and opportunities. PTO Tracker will allow employees to track monthly PTO. Recruiting Manager manages such features as resumes, open positions, and interview schedules. Finally, My Dashboard will give users a view of tasks and activities. The Coghead applications represent the continued expansion both up and down the business food chain of Web-based services. For many small businesses, Web 2.0 applications are the only workable solution if they want to enter the digital age. "There are 50 million businesses that donât have a server," said Paul McNamara, CEO at Coghead.Â  Coghead's deal with BT represents the interest that some of the largest enterprises are taking in the Web 2.0 architecture. It will give Coghead developers access to BT's telephony services, and it provides BT with the potential to offer a host of new services quickly and without a great deal of its own investment. For example, developers could embed BT's SMS capability into an application developed on the Coghead platform for CRM.Â  While the deal with BT covers the other side of the Atlantic, McCabe believes there will be similar deals on this side of the pond as well. "The primary piece of infrastructure for Web 2.0 applications is the Internet connection. Telecom companies like BT own the infrastructure, and they want to be able to offer more services over it," said McNamara. Business Essentials is available immediately. Pricing starts at $49 per month for five users.