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04 July 2008 SEO, Nothing changed.: Gilbert (one of the original guys behind prooving Silverlight + SEO) of had a great write-up outlining some depth thought around this whole SEO buzz that Adobe unleashed early this week. http://bits.samiq.net/2008/07/seo-for-ria-status-few-days-later.html Read More...
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Filed under: Silverlight, Adobe, Microsoft, SWF, WebBuzz, Google
30 May 2008 Let's play this by the numbers..: I had to laugh tonight, as the Adobe folks decided to burst Mozilla folks bubble around the whole Download Mozilla Day event (classic gimmick to get Mozilla penetration numbers up, nice marketing ploy though..). Ben Forta @ Adobe.com: There have been Read More...
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Filed under: Adobe, Observations
15 November 2007 POC #1 - Project Harmony (pt1) (Silverlight & Flash): I've been enjoying the overall experience of what Silverlight has to offer since I started with Microsoft back in January 07. That being said, I've often been an internal "goto" person at times for some Flash advice on behalf of Microsoft customers Read More...
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Filed under: Silverlight, Flash, Adobe, AJAX, Mashup, RIA, Microsoft, Going Flex to Silverlight, UXE, RIA Producer, Art, Skinning, RIA Handbook, Animation, Rich Internet Application, Rich Interactive Application, POC
27 October 2007 Mozilla, Adobe and Silverlight. Shall we dance?: No doubt you've seen the Prism announcement by Mozilla. Quite an interesting move in this chess game we call "The Software Industry". Personally, I'm not sure what the end game for Mozilla is anymore and I'm sure If I look hard enough I'll find Read More...
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Filed under: Silverlight, Evangelists, Adobe, Brand Politics, AIR, Prism
25 October 2007 SilverlightAIR - Silverlight + Java Webstart.: I got a question the other day that kind of threw me. In that, someone asked if we were going to do a Silverlight version of AIR. That's something you'd probably need to ask the executive folks around Silverlight (I'm just a guy whom uses the product, Read More...
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Filed under: Silverlight, Adobe, RIA
23 October 2007 At times I wonder...: They say a picture speaks a thousands words. In this case, I find it tongue in cheek that Adobe's CEO Bruce Chizen got up on stage, labeled Microsoft as a "monopoly" in one breath, then talked about how great the Adobe products in another whilst Read More...
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Filed under: Adobe, Brand Politics
01 October 2007 It's all a Buzzword in the end?: If you've managed to walk away from the blogsphere, the usual Tech writers have written about BuzzWord and how Adobe has acquired them. The main reason they write about this is, well it hints at an Office doomsday signal. It really doesn't in the end. Read More...
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Filed under: Adobe
01 October 2007 What's your story around AIR?: Last week I was at the Web Directions South 07 Conference . It was a blast and learnt a lot from our customers and non-customers in the field. It was the closing party and I was asked a simple question around "AIR" - in that " What's Microsoft's Read More...
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Filed under: Silverlight, Adobe, Zinc, Apollo
11 September 2007 New RIA Comic debuted - &quot;Barely out of Beta&quot;.: Minty (Nectarine.com.au, makers of infamous funny Flash animated cartoons ) just sent me an email letting me know one of what will be many comic strips centered around the online web is now online. I think the first one is brilliant especially since Read More...
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Filed under: Adobe, RIA, Nectarine, Comic, Barely Out of Beta
05 September 2007 Adobe vs Microsoft, the comic.: I'm always amused online when I see the usual Adobe vs Microsoft rant, it always ends up in someone fighting with the author or rogue commenter's shooting shots from the side, echoing the same points. There is hope though in this battle royale, as you Read More...
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Filed under: Adobe, Microsoft, Web On The Piste, Nectarine, Animation
13 August 2007 Web On The Piste (New Zealand).: I'll be attending and speaking at the first " Web On The Piste " in New Zealand next week. This is a conference being organized by both Straker and Gruden , two companies in which I've had a lot of positive dealings with over the years. It's shaping up Read More...
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Filed under: Silverlight, Flex, Adobe, Conference, Community, Web On The Piste, WebDU, WOTP
25 July 2007 We gave birth to RIA.: Adobe's Mike Downey and I were throwing comments back and forth on twitter.com this morning, it was derived from Brad Becker (ex Flash Product guy @ Macromedia and now Microsoft staffer) post on RIA . Brad posted this a few months ago when JD @ Adobe Read More...
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Filed under: Silverlight, Flex, Evangelists, Flash, Adobe, AJAX, RIA, Fash Killer, Twitter, Google Gears, Community
18 July 2007 Taking on the RIA fight, Adobe, Microsoft and Scoble.: I stumbled upon Scoble's post around how great it was to see Ryan Stewart being agnostic in terms of praising Silverlight via his blog. I guess I didn't really pay attention to this, as Ryan's always been one of these guys that generally has a great pulse Read More...
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Filed under: Silverlight, Flash, Adobe, RIA, Microsoft, Scoble
03 July 2007 Spiderman(Adobe) vs Batman(Microsoft): If you've attended some of my presentations on Silverlight lately, you would see a main theme arise, it's called "Choice". Ever since starting with Microsoft, I've been deflecting, dodging even fighting with the Adobe brand over Microsoft's offerings, Read More...
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Filed under: Silverlight, Adobe, Microsoft
21 June 2007 Brand, it's deeply seeded.: In my role, I've encountered a lot of interesting behavior associated to the brand. I find it scary in some parts but also interesting in others. I've got friends whom I've known for 5+ years suddenly refer to me "you guys" when talking about Microsoft Read More...
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Filed under: Evangelists, Adobe, Microsoft, Me

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