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I tried it out some time ago, but kind of forgot about it.
But suddenly al kind of people start to follow my nearly dead account. I thought I had the moral obligation to at least give it one more shot, so here I am!
You can follow me @ http://www.twitter.com/minorissues
I’ll try to hang in, and kind of discovered the joy of it. You learn to know the people you’re following on a different way. Kind of a delayed group chat. Fun!
We all get loads of x-mas and new year cards these days. Good to see a lot of them are digital and pretty creative. Here’s a selection of cards I received or stumled upon.
Pioneer 
Nicely designed and executed in flash, if I may say this, because we made this card at These Days.
Glue 
I love the idea .. a quiz to win Semelflex slippers. By Glue.
Delhaize 
Place your star (and firework) above your recepients house. Nice Google Maps integration by our Belgian Agency.com colleagues.
Nascom 
Flex and video upload/streaming. You guys keep on rocking Nascom!
Wunderman team Microsoft 
The first Silverlight card I saw. Create your own gingerbread man.
Mason Zimbler 
An other Silverlight card .. about Silverlight 
Paratel 
Well .. actually .. no comment 
I’m in Barcelona right now, on the kind invitation of Adobe. I’m attending the Adobe Max conference. Quick status.
It seems the new Adobe strategy includes several services. No real surprise, it’s a market trend. But a trend that will change the major business models.
Saw some really cool stuff already:
- Share. A central storage platform that can be integrated in all kind of applications
- Scene7: a technology Adobe recently acquired. Making it possible to use a high res images datasource and render the needed images just in time to create all kind of amazing applications (zooming, rotating, integrating, ..)
- Thermo: the missing link between designer and developer! Release date not known yet 
- Pacifica: a VOIP service. This works really well. So you basically can create your own VOIP applications. So who’s up to create the first Skype clone in Flash or AIR
- The new flash player, version 10 (codename Astro). I’m especially excited about the new text renderer!
- Flash Lite 3. With streaming video towards your mobile amongst others. I can see a cool application evolving using this and Pacifica
- I attended a NDA session on AIR as well. Can’t go into the specifics (I signed with my own blood). Just know AIR is here to stay.
Serge was in the keynote this morning. He did really well in front of this room with over 1000 people
He in fact presented the VOIP service .. the one with the most risk for failure. Respect man!
This noon I attended a roundtable discussion with the Flash Mobile / Lite team. It was engaging, and fun to know the Adobe people involve the community to make the product better. Really good discussion. It was not only about technology, but also about for example distribution, marketing and awareness.
Thank you Kathy Charneco for inviting me.
The greatest thing about these events is the networking, the interaction with the Adobe people and fellow multimedia professionals. And of course the inspiring factor. Really enjoy al these engaging people talk about the technologies they love. Lot’s of new ideas!
But the Wifi sucks
Next Saturday, we’re hosting an Adobe Usergroup (previous MMUG) session at These Days, Antwerp. It’s going to be an inspirational session, not very technical.
Feel free to join, we’ll have a Barbeque afterwards. Subscribe on the website.
The usergroup is managed by Koen De Weggheleire nowadays, and he’s doing a very good job so far!
Wii eat your heart out!
Play online (without motion).
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As announced previously, Fantasy Interactive just launched their new blog: think Swedish.
They developed the blog software themselves and called in Propod. Seems they release it under beta soon.
It’s written in Flash or Flex technology, and baselined “Media Blogging”, indicating it will be reach media enabled all the way. The blog is looking very stylish.
To get an introduction I suggest you read the words of David Martin himself, he sets the path for a new FI. Interesting read. Good luck guys!
Still beta, so I got some feature requests: rss (gimme please), trackbacks, technorati integration, SEO, possibility to embed their media player in other blogs (youTube like), ..
As announced on Multi-Mania last Friday, Nicolas Lierman just released his Google Analytics Apollo widget on These Days labs.
Just installed it, and it work great. There are some things that can be improved though, most important for me the possibility to switch accounts without having to log in again. But anyway, it’s an early release.
I know Nico has lots of plans with it. He’s writing a complete reporting tool in Apollo. This is just the first bit he releases. To make this work he wrote an AS 3 API on Google Analytics. Pretty amazing stuff and more to come. Clever.
Attended the Multi-Mania conference in Kortrijk yesterday. Great event and great speakers.
My personal highlight of the day was definitely the short chat I had with David Martin, Fantasy Interactive‘s CEO.
For me this company is like an all time favorite. I remember, back in the days, we used to look at the RoadRunner flash portal as an example and a new standard. So many years later (5, 6 ..) the website is still standing.
To give you one particular example.
I talked with David about the design/development distinction. Everybody in the industry knows there is a gap between creation (concepts/designs) and development. It’s a natural gap, which is also enlarged by scope issues and change requests. But for years now FI seem to control this gap. All things they deliver are as perfect as they could. David named a few reasons:
- They don’t work with deadlines. They’re in the position to pick their clients, and work with the most possible care.
- Their motto is “quality over quantity”. It has to be perfect. That’s why they are in this position in the first place, because they aim higher than everybody else. A litter lower the competition is killing, but they rule their universe. A real blue ocean strategy indeed.
- You have to make sure all people involved feel they own the project/product, so they put maximum effort to make it the best they could.
I invented a FI baseline (slightly based on Google’s “don’t be evil”):
DON’T COMPROMISE
So I’m sure these guys keep rocking, and I definitely want to keep in touch. I think we can all learn from them and make our own methods and processes better. I know the business isn’t completely comparable. For instance These Days is much more of a marketing firm. We do campaigns, we obviously can’t live without deadlines. And for me personally, this is one of the fun parts. Rushing, making it work, getting things done.
They’ll launch their blog on Monday, so keep an eye on them.
David, nice talking to you.
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