For those interested in Flash Mobile, join us in an online seminar at the end of this month (Feb 28th) where Richard Leggett, Weyert de Boer and myself will be covering topics from our book Foundation Flash for Mobile Devices (Publisher: friends of ED, ISBN 1590595580).

The seminar will be broken into 3 parts, with questions [...]

I just posted a game review of the latest creation from Zodal entitled: “In the Crib with Rob and Big” over at Frame27 (which if you did not know, is a place where Flash Mobile games are reviewed).

There is a new Adobe Mobile and Devices Whitepaper by Josh Ulm (Principal Designer - Experience Lead, Mobile and Devices @ Adobe) on “Designing Engaging Mobile Experiences”.
Download it (PDF).

I just noticed Bookpool.com is offering a really very good deal on our recent Foundation Flash Applications for Mobile Devices book (Publisher: friends of ED, ISBN: 1590595580) that is hitting shelves.
23% off Foundation Flash Applications for Mobile Devices!

You can order here from Bookpool.com or check out other distributors here.

I just found out about this via Chris Georgenes (Mudbubble) a couple weeks back. In additional to the Boston Flash Platform User Group (BFPUG) there is also a Flash User Group at Harvard University.
Some of the events coming up in 2007 are as follows:

Feb 15 - Interactive Flash Physics Simulation (Harvard Engineering)
March 15 - [...]

“Once a group of ten blind masseuses were traveling together in the mountains, and when they began to pass along the top of a precipice, they all became very cautious, their legs shook, and they were in general struck with terror. Just then the leading man stumbled and fell off the cliff. Those that were [...]

I will be conducting Flash Lite 2.1 training April 17th-20th at the Adobe San Francisco office. You can pre-register for this right now.
The primary audience for this training will be those developers who want to become certified as trainers for Flash Lite, as well as OEM’s, Operators, Aggregators, etc … at least some of this [...]

A while ago I pointed out that a few of the new iRiver device lineup (recently announced at CES 2007) have a Flash Lite 2.1 based player implementation. Vivek recently dug up some more info via Gadget Korea.
From what I can translate and make out, in additional to the Flash Lite UI (yes, the device [...]

Apparently, Word 2007 now supports publishing blog entries to several popular formats (including WordPress). Still adapting to the new UI, but so far it’s an interesting experience.

I’m not sure if I’ll use Word to make entries yet, but time will tell. I’ve tried other external apps to post, but I’ve always ended back at the [...]

Joint meeting of GBC/ACM and Central New England Chapter of IEEE Computer Society to be held (Boston local event):

Title:
The Dawning of the Age of Experience

Speaker:
Jared M. Spool, User Interface Engineering

Location:
IBM Innovation Center, 404 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA

Date:
Thursday, 2/15/2007

Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Abstract:

Experience design is no longer a nice-to-have luxury of a few organizations with [...]