Chuck FreedmanThis week marks 2 years since I relocated from Boston to the South Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, also known as Silicon Valley. In that time I have worked for two great companies, appeared at 10 events, met and worked with amazing people, made some great friends and learned a ton about innovation [...]
Archive | November, 2007
PaperVision3D has bitten me
I blame the long weekend, Doug McCune’s sweet and inspiring CoverFlow component and an over-elaborate idea to build a 3D Ribbit app for my recent immersion (more like head first-dunking) into PaperVision3D. One visit to the PaperVision3D site led me to download the Flex code package and I was up and running with the 3D rally car [...]
Ribbit throwing platform party for Flex developer community
We just announced that we are holding a platform release party in San Francisco on the night of December 13th. It’s going to be an amazing event and we have several, exiting key announcements to make about the next release of our platform. Our platform has grown to hundreds of Flex developers form over 40 [...]
Flash across Amazon
I still get a slightly giddy feeling whenever I go to a major internet site and see Flash all across the page. Amazon has decorated its holiday page with a pair of Flash widgets that add a flair of dancing interactivity to its otherwise get-to-the point storefront. The widgets sit side-by-side. The one on the [...]
Just how tied to web 2.0 is Adobe?
Reading several articles the last few days on Adobe’s CEO Bruce Chizen stepping down, I’ve noticed many of them carry a message that Adobe’s success has been tied to the growth of web 2.0. I have followed nearly every move of Adobe since before its acquisition of Macromedia (Being a film student, I used to [...]
Buzzword and SlideRocket need a spreadsheet friend
Adobe’s Buzzword and Mitch Grasso’s SlideRocket represent not just the very best in Flex and Flash Platform development, but also the promise of just how good — rather, better – online office tools can be. There is a third part here that is missing. Where is a similar caliber solution for spreadsheets? I want one. I would [...]
Can advertising pay for everything, especially when ads don’t work on me?
How much have you paid to run searches on Yahoo!, YouTube or Google? How much has it cost you to use the services of mySpace or facebook? How much have you paid to read articles on CNN, or read this blog and several thousand others? If you answered $0, then you and I have at least [...]
