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All Things Digital interviewed Geschke and discussed about Jobs’ thoughts on Flash and Adobe’s heart on Apple showing everywhere today.

Regarding the “heart” ads, Geschke said:

We mostly are using it as a way to communicate with our customers and
partners to assure them that we’re not going to change our strategy and
to inform the rest of the community of what the pluses and minuses are
of not supporting Flash on the iPhone and the iPad. Our customers, a
large percentage of them, are the people who generate and distribute
information and content, and for them they have one production stream
that they use to do that and they’ve gotten used to the fact that we’ve
worked very hard to open up the standards that we support so that we
can offer them ubiquity of output on all kinds of platforms. So the
fact that Apple is precluding that puts them in a tough position
because it means that they’re going to have to create that content
twice, and that’s not very productive. It’s certainly more expensive
than what they do today. And as you know, the content industry is an
industry under a lot of cost pressure these days.

Besides, I like one point Geschke brought up when asked why now Flash is not open source:

With the standards that we have built and made open to the entire
world, we’ve tried our best to get them to the point where they’re
mature enough so that we’re not doing design by committee. If you look
at the amount of time it will take HTML5 to become a reasonably solid
platform, it’s going to take a long time because there are an awful lot
of vested interests trying to influence its development.

Just look at those Web Service standards around SOA or look at where Java is going under committees you would know he gets a good point.

We believe that consumers should be able to freely access their favorite content and applications, regardless of what computer they have, what browser they like, or what device suits their needs. No company–no matter how big or how creative–should dictate what you can create, how you create it, or what you can experience on the web.

When markets are open, anyone with a great idea has a chance to drive innovation and find new customers. Adobe’s business philosophy is based on a premise that, in an open market, the best products will win in the end–and the best way to compete is to create the best technology and innovate faster than your competitors.

We believe that Apple, by taking the opposite approach, has taken a step that could undermine this next chapter of the web–the chapter in which mobile devices outnumber computers, any individual can be a publisher, and content is accessed anywhere and at any time.

In the end, we believe the question is really this: Who controls the World Wide Web? And we believe the answer is: nobody – and everybody, but certainly not a single company.

That’s something well said. However, action ususally speaks much better and more powerful than words. Forget about iPhone, Adobe, just get the Flash on the rest of smart phones and show them to the world, can’t you?

The odd name Gianduja (say “jan-DO-ya,”) is an Italian masquerade character and also a kind of chocolate candy with hazelnut in it. It’s that last meaning they were probably thinking of here: another takeoff on the name “Cocoa,” just like “Cocoa” is a takeoff on “Java.” It was described by developer Jonathan Rentzsch as “browser-side Cocoa (including CoreData) + WebObjects, written in JavaScript by non-js-haters.” Renztsch said his “Jaw dropped,” and that he was “Blown away by Gianduia.” It’s a standards-based framework, and since it’s all JavaScript it allows for maximum portability and doesn’t depend on a single company (like Adobe for Flash or Microsoft for Silverlight)

Apple has already implemented Gianduja in Apple Retail’s WebObjects-based services like the Personal Shopping reservation system. The One-to-One program, iPhone reservation system, and its Concierge service for Genius Bar reservations also use Gianduja. More information is expected at this year’s WOWDC, which is usually timed to coincide with the Worldwide Developers Conference in June.

I’d rather think it’s a good thing because I always believe RIA will become a set of mainstream technologies that will eventually render RIA out of its niche. Like, who is still bragging about creating a web application?

.: Flex RIA @2008

The ESRI Ireland folks post a fairly comprehensive blog entry to describe what the new Flex Viewer is. I have to quote what it said in the end:

The existing Viewer is great. The new Viewer is even better - that’s progress.

Thank you the Ireland friends! BTW, they’ve done very impressive works customizing the existing Viewer. I’m very proud of them!

Here are some comments I’ve got from tweets:

@cageyjames The new flex viewer is exactly how it should be. The old wacky zooming window bubbles is dead!

[come on, the old on is not that bad:-) It's just got tired]

@geeknixta Looks like the Flex team’s been listening. Good enhancements to flex viewer. Also, now demoing data extraction. #DevSummit

[Of cause we do. I even joined the team.]

@dafkobyte It seems that customizing the look & feel of the Flex Viewer will be easier now. #devsummit

[You got that right my friend. That's a major focus of the new viewer design and dev]

I’ll be honest with you, what you’ve seen at the #DevSummit was small portion of what on my mind. I was a bit of surprised by the overwhelmingly positive feedback, even though it’s indeed very encouraging. The #DevSummit is kind of coming out of shadow session. The biggest splash will be in the coming UC. Just wait and see.

Did I think about the viewer could spread this far when I designed it? No. Do I think the new coming version of it (ArcGIS Web Map for Flex) can go even farther? YES.

HEMA is a Dutch department store.  The first store opened on November 4, 1926, in Amsterdam.  Now there are 150
stores all over the Netherlands.

Take a look at HEMA’s product page.  You can’t order anything, and it’s in Dutch - but just wait a couple of
seconds and watch what happens.

DON’T click on any of the items in the picture, just wait and see what happens.  HONEST!

This company has a sense of humour and a great computer programmer, who has too much time on his hands. We talked a lot about if you want to make Adobe Flash web site or not. In this case, it’s great argument at that you might want to have Flash web site as your online shop front page, only if you are creative enough.

Click link below and enjoy - you need sound to enjoy it best!

http://producten.hema.nl/

Looks Apple won’t give in for not supporting Adobe Flash on its devices anytime soon. Considering all those designers who love Adobe creative products for Mac kept Mac afloat during its down time, Apple looks not that cool anymore. Anyway, there are always alternatives. Speaking of iPad, here comes Joojoo tablet.

Just look at the speck, it has everything iPad will have. Beside, it has camera for video conferencing, 12.1 inch widescreen, 1366×768 pixel resolution and Flash 10.1 and Java. It will on sell soon for $499.

We all know Apple’s refusing to Flash is merely to protect its walled App Store. But history tells us, a wall can either become a relic for tourist (The Great Wall of China) or many pieces for collection (The Berlin Wall).

My friends and readers, wish you all the best in the tiger year!

This will be an exciting and adventure year and I can’t wait every tomorrow becomes today.