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Entrepreneur reports in the June issue that companies engaging in PR were 30% more successful in attaining funding than those w/o PR. # RT @rightsource Seth Godin’s new blog post is worth a read — Is Marketing An Art or A Science? http://tinyurl.com/r6cohe # 80% of media co...
Amethyst Beta 5, the Visual Studio .NET IDE for Flex development, has been released. This new release adds some cool features for refactoring code such as:
Welcome to Acrobat.com Presentations, a better way to create, edit, and share presentations with others online. Built on the Adobe® Flash® platform, Acrobat.com Presentations looks and behaves like a desktop presentation application but operates inside a web browser. It’s free, s...
"Mass psychology" scientists study this kind of phenomena and the "mass psychology of fascism" is of course the most famous lab case. The extraordinary experience SYS-CON Media lived through became part of a Forbes Magazine investigative cover story called "Attack of the Blogs" that fo...
Comtaste has just released its second open source project named Pantaste. The library has been developed a couple of years ago, we've started working in Flex 2, but we did not find the time to make the final things, add the documentation, the ASDoc and so on. PanTaste is an open sour...
There's enough of a record out there now to comfortably suggest that Google is going to get into any platform where it can leverage technology and generate more ad revenues, and my suspicion is the only reason the Google folks are not yet in the DS space is that it is still wildly diso...
Three days of the best conference for Flex developers went by fast. I’ve been attending this great event for the first time, and in the future, I’ll try not to miss this #1 gathering for Flex developers. While Adobe MAX is a lot larger...
The official announcement won’t hit the wire until tomorrow morning, so consider this an exclusive.  PR Flex officially launches tomorrow, with a focus on providing high quality public relations services to the small and medium business market. Our team is full of marketing and p...
PR Flex client SpotCrime on Pheonix area tv: Website helps you find crime in your neighboorhood http://tinyurl.com/q84g5d # PR Week: PR pros must continue to advocate for their proverbial seat at the table http://tinyurl.com/owzrzh # PPC ad from PR agency reads: “You Tell Your St...
The press release remains one of the building blocks of any public relations effort.  Don’t believe it?  Go check out the website of any Fortune 1000 company, and you know what you’ll find?  Press releases.  Lots of them.  Typically issued in a consistent manner.  We’...
So I'm back from a trip to Tokyo and the first news I read is that Flex Builder 4 (codename Gumbo) will be renamed to Flash Builder! Ryan have written an explanatory post (read the full "Flex Builder “Gumbo” is Being Renamed Flash Builder" article)about the motivations that drove Adobe...
The Adobe® Design Achievement Awards celebrate student achievement reflecting the powerful convergence of technology and the creative arts. The competition — which showcases individual and group projects created with industry-leading Adobe creative software — honors the most talented a...
Adobe AIR is cool because 1. AIR allows you to perform all I/O operation with the file system on the user's desktop. 2. AIR allows you to sign applications and version application. 3. AIR offers an updater to ensure proper upgrades of the appl
My company, On3, has added another Adobe Flex 3 Rich Client Applications class for June 1-3, 2009 and the Flex 3 LiveCycle Data Services Integrating with Data and Messaging class for June 4-5, 2009. The class is in Downtown Denver the first week of June. Which is an absolutely beautifu...
Flex framework’s current stable version is 3.x and the Flex team at Adobe is actively working on getting the version 4.x ready this year. At this time, the core SDK of Flex 4, codenamed Gumbo, is evolving through an open source process. From peeking into its initial version, it looks p...
Starting Monday May 18, 2009 fun begins at Indianapolis. No, not the car race; its 360 Flex! 360 Flex is a unique and special event for many reasons, namely: Its the one and only event dedicated completely to Flex (and AIR). Its an informal event that is run for te community, by the c...
Being a big fan of streaming media, I have quite a selection on my desktop from RealPlayer, to Windows Media, to YouTube favourites, to Adobe’s quite interesting Media Player and even Miro. I would have Hulu too if it supported content streaming outside t...
Okay, maybe I do already love the Adobe RIA tools, but… if I didn’t, I’d be smitten with their latest offer to the community. Once again, Adobe is reaching out to the community by giving away free licenses to their RIA development tools. Free Flex Builder licenses to ...
If you ask the average businessperson to provide an example of an effective public relations campaign, more often than not they will begin mentioning big brands, big celebrities or big political figures.  One reason for that is simple: as consumers we focus on the stories that receive ...
I'm happy to be able to disclose today that the Federal Government of the United States released its cloud computing RFI earlier this afternoon. Enomaly was fortunate to have been included in recent consultations with the government, and we've been impressed by the vision of this admin...
View the latest Twitter posts from PR Flex: Outrage Over Army Corps 4.7M PR Contract: http://tinyurl.com/onfe4w Is this the greatest PR stunt ever? http://tinyurl.com/cbtn4g NY Times: PR spending down but well positioned for recovery - http://tinyurl.com/df3tj8 Ex-baller turned mayora...
Optimize the delivery of high-quality, monetized video Adobe will offer a standard open framework, code-named Strobe, that accelerates and simplifies media player creation for the Adobe® Flash® Platform. Its extensible plug-in architecture provides production-ready code that meets recu...
The 3D feature in Flash was always a dream from Flash users, this dream is the motivator for the community to think in making this dream comes true. While Adobe is starting to add 3D features in both Flash and Photoshop. The community out there is developing open-source technologies to...
We'll be a two day training workshop "Flex for Architects" that will take place next week in Boston, MA. This small event will take place in the heart of financial district, in Hilton hotel on May 21-22, 2009. During registration at htt
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We are happy to announce the launch of the new Graphic Mania Video tutorials site. The site is aimed to share and provide with all of the site visitors video tutorials from different sources as well as its exclusive videos. Graphic Mania Video includes videos in different languages ab...
One of my CFUnited sessions: AIR: Building Desktop Applications with Flex 3 - http://cfunited.com/2009/topics/235 Here is a little Q&A about CFUnited and me.
Here's an excerpt from chapter 3 of our upcoming O'Reilly book "Enterprise Development with Flex": http://tinyurl.com/qu5dacThe chapter uses components from the open source component library clear.swc, which is available at http://s
The PR Flex team recently completed its Learning Center, designed to provide businesses with a thorough understanding of the basics of public relations.  Education is one of the primary components to our mission: to deliver high quality public relations services to the small to medium ...
I am organizing a session on “Rich Finance Widgets” this coming Monday. “Rich Finance Widgets” are revolutionizing the way we access and distribute financial information and make trading and investment decisions. Come and join me this Monday May 4, 2009 at 10.00...
AgencyNet are the digital agency behind the impressive multi-screen ‘Fanbase‘ application, which was developed for Atlantic Records. The team used Adobe AIR and the Flash Lite Distributable player to bring the application to consumers, accessible as both a desktop applicati...
No doubt that passing the certification exam for any of Adobe products is a good proof for your employer and in your resume for your profession in this tool. This does not mean that you have to know every thing about the product as many people wrongly think, it is a totally misleading ...
Today I've discovered my new home page on the brand-new Ulitzer platform: http://marcocasario.ulitzer.com It's a new service (still in beta) that allows users to create their own magazine. Goggling on the net I found the following information about the service: Ulitzer titles will be p...
We'll be a two day training workshop "Flex for Architects" that will take place in Boston, MA on May 21-22, 2009. During registration at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/295389518, enter the discount code flex100 to get $100 of the tuitiion.
As an Adobe Flex Certified Instructor (ACI) I had to update my certification to the new Adobe Flex 3 with AIR Exam in order to confirm my Flex ACI. So this morning I got and passed the Adobe Flex 3 with AIR Exam in a Vue center. The exam has changed a bit against the previous Flex 2 ve...
Tomorrow is the last day for submitting papers for Adobe's main conference called Max'09. I've submitted two proposals - one's called "Practical Design Patterns in Flex", and the other one is titled "Data Synchronization.
Learning Adobe Illustrator is one of the important skills that every designer should have, it will help you in creating unique designers and more capabilities to deal with lines and paths than Photoshop and other bitmap software. The below is a collection of the most amazing vector tu...
While tidying up my library in the past days I've found some very old books I've used to study my first topics in the multimedia/web development filed. I've discovered a book on Director 5, Perl, HTML 3 and the follwoing Macromedia Flash books: Flash 3 Web Animation (by Coriolis Pre...
Many of use has moved to Adobe CS4 already and used it for their dauily live since the launch of new Adobe CS4 package last year. However, while my working with the Adobe CS4 products, I myself found some features that may need more enhancements and some features are still on its early...
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