Adobe and Condé Naste demo WIRED on Adobe AIR

Adobe just published an interesting blog post about Adobe and Condé Nast's unveiling of "a new digital magazine experience based on WIRED magazine" that's built using Adobe AIR and could conceivably work on iPads and iPhones. You can read more about the features and benefits of the app in Adobe's blog post, and here's a video of the app in action:

February 16, 2010
Jonathan Anderson
Adobe AIR gets smart(phone)

Adobe is releasing AIR for smartphone platforms, starting with Blackberry and Android. After announcing that Flash CS5 would allow developer to build iPhone apps, Adobe is now pushing its platform onto other devices. While purists may squirm at the idea of building apps with something like AIR it will allow true multi-platform mobile development by the large and already heavily invested Flash development community. From Gizmodo:

February 15, 2010
Alex Schleifer
Designing Superior Shopping Experiences

Imagine shopping in a store where the displays never change. Customers select items by browsing through monolithic aisles of products. Store displays are minimal and uninteresting. Items in the displays are hard to find or even unavailable. This doesn't seem like a great shopping experience, does it? Yet this is what online shoppers experience (and accept as standard) on many large e-commerce sites.

November 29, 2009
George Plesko
Failing Fast: Getting Projects Out of the Lab

“Failing fast” means getting putting applications out in the wild as soon as possible to learn whether they will succeed. This gives you access to early user feedback to quickly weed out ideas and methods that don’t work. Failing fast is a good thing—or, at least, it's preferable to failing slowly and spending too much time, effort and money developing a product that should have been put to rest earlier. Money and time you save by cutting off unsuccessful projects quickly will mean you have more money and time for the successful ones. The concept of failing fast can help businesspeople and stakeholders reduce the riskiness of launching products by letting real users and the marketplace dictate their product choices.

November 22, 2009
Tony Hillerson, Alan Lewis, Scott Green, Ryan Stewart, Randy Rieland
Adobe Apollo Alpha
Adobe’s just released Apollo into the wild (albeit in Alpha form). In a nutshell, Apollo let’s you build cross-OS desktop applications using a cocktail of Ajax, Flash, JavaScript & HTML. Be sure to check out the sample applications. (Via Ajaxian)
March 18, 2007
Alex Schleifer
360|Flex

Join us in Denver CO April 15-18, 2012! Tickets are on sale now!

360|Flex has quickly become THE conference for Flex/AIR/ActionScript developers to attend to connect with the community, learn from the Adobe Engineers, as well as community experts, and get the deepest, most technical understanding of Flex and what’s coming for Flex, anywhere.

360|Flex was the first and is still the best all Flex/AIR themed conference. Our inaugural conference in San Jose was a sell-out success. 360|Flex takes you into the nitty-gritty of Flex development, with well known community leaders, giving some of the most advanced Flex talks anywhere. Anyone serious about being the best Flex developer they can be, owes it to themselves to look at 360|Flex as they best option for raising their game to a new level!

December 31, 1969