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Adobe Reaches Far and Wide

From The New York Times:
Saturday Interview With Bruce R. Chizen – Adobe Reaches Far and Wide

I just came across this piece with excerpts from an interview with Adobe’s chief executive, Bruce Chizen. In it he speaks “about the competitive landscape, about being on pace to surpass $2 billion in sales for the first time and about how far-reaching Adobe has become in Americans’ daily lives.”

Q. Verizon Wireless is now offering Adobe Flash-enabled handsets. How are consumers taking to them?

A. We are working with carriers in enabling the handsets to deliver rich and compelling content. This is really about the explosion of digital content that is happening in society. Everyone is creating content. Web sites like YouTube.com and MySpace are great examples of that. Anyone who is trying to create and communicate this content is trying to figure out how to do it in a much more reliable, impactful and engaging way. Fortunately, that is Adobe’s specialty, and Adobe is everywhere you look.

And here’s the link.

Flash… Once-spurned animation technology now a Web staple

A couple of days after writing my post about wanting to inform people about what Flash really is capable of, I read this article from Dan Richman and followed up with two things: this post and an email to Mr. Richman to let him know how much Flash has grown over the years. We exchanged a few emails in which Mr. Richman pointed out that I had not given any examples to back up my Flash RIA claims. I gathered up a few links and sent them over to him (I’ve included those links below). Well, much earlier this evening I got an email from Mr. Richman telling me to check out tomorrow’s story at seattlepi.com and that he hoped it addressed my concerns.

Since I’m still up working on things after midnight, I figured I’d go see if the article was up. Sure enough, it is live. Check it out when you get a chance. He’s got some nice quotes from Mike Downey in there.

“Flash is it. This is the future.”

So a big ‘ol fat thank you to Dan Richman at seattlepi.com for making a move to inform!!

Oh, almost forgot the links. Post some more Flash RIAs here if you know of some good ones.

imagevuex: much like flickr, but built with Flash

vyew: real-time collaboration platform

Pandora: Try searching for your favorite musical artist

Landscape irrigation scheduling calculator

goowy

osflash: not an RIA itself, but a place to collaborate with others on them

And finally, Macrodobe’s own list of RIA examples

Quote: “Like it or hate it, Flash… is increasing in popularity.”

Now let me fill in the middle of that quote:
“Like it or hate it, Flash — the leading technology for animating Web sites, making them quirky and fun, or distracting and slow to load — is increasing in popularity.”

That is how Dan Richman decided was the best way to start his article entitled “Online media tool not a Flash in pan” on seattlepi.com. Dan’s article is about FlashForward 2006 and “the largest crowd to attend the show since 2001.”

Now, let me point back to my last post when I quote Mr. Richman again as saying, “making them quirky and fun, or distracting and slow to load.” These are the people I’m talking about having the wrong perception of Flash. And this one is a journalist. Someone who has the power to add to the common, everyday Internet user’s perception. After I finish writing this post, I plan on sending Mr. Richman an email to try and inform him of his all-too-common misconception of Flash.

I do realize that Mr. Richman is pointing out that Flash is growing, but to start the article with “making them quirky and fun, or distracting and slow to load” just kicked me back to what I was saying before. Let me point out that this is not by any means a personal attack on you, Mr. Richman, but if you happen to follow the link to this post in my email, please do some research on Flash, ActionScript, Flex and how they go hand-in-hand with the term “Rich Internet Application.” By the way, I’m glad to see that after being around for 10 years, Flash is “not a Flash in pan.”