My B.
Man, I can’t believe it’s mid-November and I haven’t written since August. My most sincere apologies to those of you who stop by to see what’s new every once in awhile. I have been traveling pretty much non-stop to visit many of our clients, and also to attend a few Flash Conferences as well.
Some of the noted trips:
- LA - got to spend a bunch of time over with Tequila - they are doing some super-cool stuff on the Nissan brand with Flash 9 and AS 3, which I’ll get to share with ya’ll next week. They are embracing the component in a major way - kudos to them for doing some pretty amazing stuff. Also Ayzenberg has started to use the component now - which is VERY exciting!
- Adobe MAX - I agree with what Grant S. said about it - it’s a little bit more corporate and less personal than some of the more grassroots conferences, but wow the community is HUGE. There are a lot of cool things coming out with Adobe - most notably AMP (Adobe Media Player), a new version of Flash Media Server, and some pretty cool little side projects they have using AIR like Buzzword. AIR is growing up quickly, and now that you can export Flash projects into AIR applications directly in Flash, we’re probably going to start seeing lots and lots of AIR applications.
- NY/DC - met some more of our fabulous agency partners and got to do a shortened best practices presentation for 80 creatives! It is definitely a little nerve wracking when you hop off a plane, speed into Manhattan, and then immediately walk into an 80 person presentation, but I guess there’s no better way to get over an early morning flight than that.
- Dublin - London - Flash on the Beach - Dublin is officially my new favorite city. It’s friendly, the pubs are great, you can walk everywhere, and everybody drinks Guinness (it’s good for you, you know). We also have a really great new office there, which we share with some really cool dudes called MadDog Multimedia, so it’s exciting to see us expanding the way we are. I didn’t mention that I also got to go over to Germany recently to visit our new office in Cologne. I’ve got to learn German.
As I find the time, I’ll put up some more specifics on some helpful things I learned at Flash on the Beach as well so stay tuned. And I promise it won’t be 3 months from now.