Clay Shirky’s got an interesting blog post related to the massive global economic and societal shifts underway as the result of the web’s unique blend of individual empowerment, social networking and interactive new media.
One of the more interesting aspects for me was the notion that a ’social surplus’ has existed since the industrial revolution created [...]
While at FITC I had the opportunity to stop by the FDT booth and check out the latest version of their Eclipse based ActionScript code editor. I was actually surprised to see FDT with a booth at the show and even more surprised to be given a software demo by Nico Zimmermann, the creator of [...]
In case you haven’t heard, Flash rock star John Grden’s final two Papervision3D training sessions will be going down in Canada in the very near future. Held over the course of two full days, these sessions cover fundamentals to advanced techniques for 3D designers, developers and devigners.
John’s been behind a number of prominent open source [...]
I was in Toronto this week for the FITC (Flash In The Can) conference. I’ll never be accused of being a professional photographer, but here are the photos that made the first Lightroom cut.
The Adobe Thermo presentation given by Ethan Eeismann at FITC was largely a disappointment. Rather than delivering actual examples of a designer working in the latest build of Thermo, the slide driven talk labored through the historical workflow friction between designers and developers and then presented only a few screen grabs of the app where [...]
I missed this bit of news coming out of NAB, but thanks to John Nack I’m now caught back up (the benefit of a good feed reader and the echo chamber).
I’ve seen lots of talk in the past about video search, deep tagging etc., but nothing that’s effectively realized the potential. It definitely will be [...]
I recently ditched my Netgear wireless router and purchased Apple’s AirPort Extreme. I’ve been pretty happy with its range and I’m no longer having my internet connection dropped every hour which is a plus, but I had a devil of a time figuring out how to determine what the IP addresses of other computers on [...]
ReadWriteWeb had a provocatively titled post, Real People Don’t Have Time for Social Media, yesterday which resonated strongly with me. I’ve long felt that the Web, and software in general, has only recently (read last couple of years ) started to be accessible to the masses, but the truth of the matter is that the [...]
I’ve borrowed the title of this post from the Wikinomics site which describes how new communication technologies are reshaping the way the world does business by allowing the distributed voices of the rank and file to collaborate online.
Over the last decade some of the enormous untapped potential of the web has been realized as tools [...]
Maybe I’m not the sharpest tool in the toolbox, but it seems like every “security” related document I’ve ever read about Flash Player has been deliberately obfuscated to prevent ‘normal’ humans from understanding it. For instance, take a look at the example below regarding changes made to Flash Player 9.0.124 (image links to the article).
I [...]