Adobe Evangelist talking about Multi-screen and Contextual Applications on ADC
June 8th, 2011 by scottjanousekHere’s Mark Doherty (Adobe) speaking about Adobe technologies used to facilitate a contextual application called “OpenMic”.
I thought the quote about “mobile isn’t really all that mobile” was spot on (i.e. most people are using mobile and tablets in spaces where they have more than 15 minutes to do something … like public transit, or at home).
Also, I liked the statement about how to effectively manage the feature set for a mobile form factor as opposed to trying to take a desktop experience and fit it into a mobile one (a definite “no-no”). It’s all about augmentation.
Anyways, always good to hear someone talking about their latest R&D project, and “OpenMic” appears to be Mark’s:
I guess my only question after watching this was … where is a running list of TVs support Flash and/or AIR (for TV) technology?
I was following this area for quite a while, even back in the “Flash Lite” days, but nothing significant ever happened with “Adobe Digital Home” (which likely is canned now that Flash 10.x and AIR for TV is around (in SDK format) … and set-top box hardware is getting more “beefy”).
Now with the newer technology and runtime, you’d think something would be on market right now? Is it? Where?
I’ve seen Adobe folks posting about Samsung having a product almost to market. Has that shipped yet? Not sure, hopefully by the time you read this, maybe.
Someone post if they have a link. I don’t have as much time to dedicate to figuring out when Adobe is going to deploy and what the OSP partners are actually following through with.
Perhaps, Mark was just meaning that you plug in an Android or PlayBook via HDMI out to get content on the TV?





























