Flex Daddy

Adobe has announced the Open Screen Project http://www.openscreenproject.org/, an initiative dedicated to driving consistent experiences across all devices including mobile phones, personal computers, consumer devices and more

Specifically, this work will include:

• Removing restrictions on use of the SWF and FLV/F4V specifications
• Publishing the device porting layer APIs for Adobe Flash Player
• Publishing the Adobe Flash® Cast™ protocol and the AMF protocol for robust data services
• Removing licensing fees – making next major releases of Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR for devices free

I wonder how long it will take to see various open source flash players?!

More info here http://www.adobe.com/openscreenproject/

Visit www.visionair.info

I hope you can help me out and also help a good cause.

We are having a competition to raise the most $$$ for the “Fred Hollows Foundation” which gives the gift of sight to those in the developing world who could not otherwise afford a simple cataract operation.

It only takes $25 to bring the operation to one person or just $250 for ten people.

Please help this very worthy cause and help me and my team “visionAIR” win this competition.

To donate, please visit http://www.visionair.info between 4.30 pm Thursday 10 April and midday Friday 11 April.

This is tax deductible (depending on your location) and you will be issued with a receipt for tax purposes so please dig deep.

If you can encourage your friends, family and work mates to do the same. If you are able to encourage the company you work for to pledge/donate as well, that would be fantastic!

We’ve also written an AIR application as a widget so you can track the progress of the team! I’ll provide source code after the event.

Well the third strip in this series is here with “Barely Out Of Beta #3“. Great work team Nectarine!

Have you missed the previous episodes? Check them out here:

Barely Out of Beta # 1
Barely Out of Beta # 2

Also check out Barely Out Of Beta #4 - one for the game designers!

Part 2 of “Barely Out Of Beta” went live last week… remember to keep checking back for part 3 and 4 of this series.

Thanks again to Minty @ Nectarine!

Have you missed the previous episodes? Check them out here:

Barely Out of Beta # 1
Barely Out of Beta # 2

The dudes over at Nectarine have released the first of a short series of comic strips around RIA. The first story comes from the recent happenings at Web on the Piste where Adobe and Microsoft had a friendly showdown at the speaker round table.

This comic strip is going to make me famous!!! “Internet” baby yeah!

“Barely Out Of Beta”

Check out many of the other awesome animations at animation.nectarine.com.au

Grant has blogged the Web on the Piste keynote intro animations made by the team at Nectarine. Some of you may recognize the style, and that’s coz these guys also do the animations for WebDU (and the speaker face on this blog).

Check them out at the Web on the Piste Blog

Great work guys!