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Flash Lite and Mobile Technology

blogzinn — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:01:50 +0000

What Is Flash Lite?

“Flash Lite is the Flash technology specifically developed for mobile phones and consumer electronics devices. Flash Lite dramatically accelerates the delivery of rich content and browsing, and customized user interfaces. Designers and developers now have a new level of expressiveness, efficiency and interactivity for content creation.

Flash Lite has seen explosive adoption by OEMs, operators and developers in Japan and Asia, and is quickly growing worldwide. This growth is driven by the mature Flash authoring environment and rendering engine that delivers enhanced content and browsing, customized UI & a rich mobile experience across devices.” – http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashlite/

The future for mobile technology looks bright, but there are a lot of obstacles to overcome. First of all the processing power of mobile phones is still lacking. Developers are very limited in what they can create for mobile devices and therefore a lot of content suffers because of this. The interface and graphics for mobile devices are another disappointment for mobile experiences. Poor screen quality and the lack of a real video card make the visuals on mobile devices something to be desired.

These problems are however only temporary as we have all seen how quickly technology moves. Once these are overcome the possibilities will be endless. Hopefully with the help of Nokia, Sony and others supporting Adobe’s Flash Lite to be the preferred platform for mobile devices the rest of the mobile world will follow suit and us Flash people will have exponentially more job opportunities in return.

Wayne MacPhail

blogzinn — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:52:41 +0000

Our Multimedia Pioneering speaker today was Wayne Machpail. He “is a veteran freelance magazine and newspaper reporter, editor, and Internet multimedia developer.” (How to Read This Story, http://www.canoe.ca/ChiroYork/howtoread.html) Today he talked to us about podcasting and Web 2.0.
Podcasting:

Anyone can make one, inexpensive
Over 15,000+ podcast worldwide
No license needed
In the Mainstream – BBC, CBC, NDR

Its easy to see how podcasting is taking many listeners away from the radio. People can sign up to their favourite podcast shows and recieve regular links to them. Then they can play them on their laptop/computer or put them on their iPod and listen to them anywhere, anytime.

Web 2.0:

Here are some links to Web 2.0 examples:

http://www.writely.com/

http://del.icio.us/

www.flickr.com/

http://www.informatica.com (Product: Informatica SuperGlue)

http://www.backpackit.com/

Ill have more information to come later.

The Beginning

blogzinn — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:05:11 +0000

Welcome to my very first blog.