At FlashAndTheCity, we officially launched our Developer Center at http://developer.litl.com. You can now sign up for the SDK, which is in private beta. To date, we’ve approved 75% of developer signups based on Flash experience, and more importantly, ideas for channels developers want to build. The latter is important to ensure we dedicate support early…
Category: AIR
Presenting to a packed house at FOTB
I’ve heard rumors that over a hundred were turned away from my session today at FOTB. I’m happy to say that my debut presentation at Flash on the Beach was super fun and very successful. The stereo microphone demonstrations were flawless. All in all, the questions and audience participation were the best I’ve ever experienced….
Adobe MAX 2008 Announcement
Like so many of last year’s non-Adobe-employed speakers, I was not invited to speak at MAX this year. Thankfully, I was able to lobby Ribbit to obtain a significant presence at this year’s show (more details to come). I really enjoyed my first speaking experience at MAX last year and I am excited to be…
Universal Mind blogging loud and clear
Recently I blogged about Esria’s efforts to engage the community by aiming the talents of Josh Tynjala towards open source components and tools. I am becoming very impressed with the way Universal Mind has mobilized its talented (and very well-known) force to promote the company’s efforts and projects through the individual blogging of the entire…
Just posted my MAX speaker session
Last year I had the honor of speaking at MAX in Chicago for the first time. Having spoken at and attended many conferences, appearing at MAX was easily one of the highlights of my career. This year, especially with MAX 2008 being in my new ‘backyard’ of San Francisco, I hope to lead another exciting…
Amphibian and the Ribbit Store, where developers will monetize apps
Amphibian and the Ribbit Store were announced today, creating a premium avenue for Ribbit developers to actually distribute and monetize their Flex and AIR applications. More on Amphibian: It’s another banner day for Ribbit as we introduce the world to Amphibian, the consumer side of our web-telephony service. Our execs are down at DEMO this…
Ribbit announces 650 Flex developers, funding and future plans
What a media day for Ribbit today. We are top news in just about every major technology publication and blog. Almost every story mentions Flex and AIR as key technologies for Ribbit’s developer platform, reported as having over 650 Flex developers from over 65 countries. Here is a sampling of stories and below that, a…
Ribbit Platform Release Party – Final preparations
One of the easiest ways for an API Flex coder to quantify their work over a length of time is compare asdocs every month or so. I’m preparing for Ribibt’s Platform Release Party, assembling my presentations and one particular slide called “what’s new in beta 2”. Comparing the Beta 1.1 docs for the Ribbit Flex…
My first two years in Silicon Valley, Intro
This 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…
The Ribbit Developer Platform is now open to all developers
I am happy to let you know that as of this week, the Ribbit voice component for Flex and AIR has gone public beta and the developer platform is now open for all developers to join. Join Now & Download the Component: To join, go to: http://developer.ribbitphone.com/signUp.php You will be approved and able to code…