Flash on the Beach 2008 is now over … and it was great!
Looking forward to seeing/talking with folks, next year, at one of the 2 scheduled FOTB events in 2009.
- Scott Janousek \m/

This year at FOTB 2008 (Flash on the Beach), there was an “inspirational talk” given by a developer (who shall remain nameless here … you can search if you want) that was taken as highly controversial on it’s meaning and significance, by both attendees, and speakers alike.
Anyways, some of his talk (well 95% of it) [...]

Flash Magazine had a recent post that covered some comments on Flash on iPhone from here at Flash on the Beach, today, from the Adobe “Town Hall” meetings.
As I alluded to in my ActionScript Hero interview a few weeks back, at this point, it’s more about business than technical that is holding back Flash on [...]

Hi, just getting one (of hopefully) a few posts in while I am here at Flash on Tap. Got in on Sunday, and trying to figure things out in terms of conference and goings on here at this conference. It’s my first time at Flash on the Beach, but it seems very cool thus far. [...]

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  • Adobe Device Central CS3 Update #7
The Adobe Mobile and Devices team released Adobe Device Central Profile #7, which, according to Mark, brings the total number of Flash addressable mobile devices to somewhere around 525.
In regards to #7; in total there are 261 profiles included, 57 new devices and updates to 204 existing profiles [...]

A while back, I posted about Nokia’s vision piece on the “Evolution of Screens” …

Now here are some videos from NTT DoCoMo on possible mobile concepts in 201x.
“The Road to Hokusai’s Waterfall”

“Mobile phones have evolved to become indispensable tools that have changed the way we lead our lives, and they are certain to continue [...]

A little late, but there is FlashCast training (Verizon Dashboard centric) at Adobe this week for those willing to attend at the San Francisco office.
I believe today is a Flash Lite 1.1 one day session, and then the other two days focus specifically on FlashCast training.
Details:

Tuesday - Thursday, September 23-25, 2008
9:00 am - [...]

Adobe has unveiled some of the features of the soon to be released Adobe Device Central CS4 (one of many products that make up Creative Suite 4 product, including Flash CS4, etc).
Adobe Device Central CS4 represents the next generation of mobile testing toolset for CS4 Professionals, as well as other Mobile Developers looking to leverage [...]

Adobe has a Creative Suite 4 Launch Broadcast today.
It’s live right now (an estimated 200,000 attendees right now for the EST event).

Bill Perry (Adobe Mobile & Devices) posted some clips of Shantanu’s keynote from CTIA that happened earlier this September.
The presentation is awesome, and gives a pretty clear and concise message about how Adobe views the next generation of Mobile.
Here are videos, and thanks to Bill Perry for taking the time to shoot, edit, and [...]