February 11, 2006
BusinessWeek online will publish this article tomorrow describing the acquisition dealing a year ago between the CEOs of Adobe and Macromedia, and the meshing in the aftermath of the two digitally creative companies. The merger story is interesting and the integration plans between software promising. Vision beyond is sketched as well: That's just using existing technology. Already a team of Adobe and Macromedia developers have started an innovative project to create a new version of Reader. Instead of just letting people view documents or fill out forms, it will run media-rich interactive Web applications thanks to the combination of Reader and Flash. The goal will be to install it on a majority of computers, just like Reader and Flash Player.
ng more revenue and profit out of the ubiquity of the two technologies. Plans are to build similar prevalence on phones and consumer devices. While deals have been announced with Nokia (NOK), Samsung, and LG, Adobe has also closed deals with all of the world's six largest handset makers. This quarter 66 million phones will have Flash up 50% over last quarter. If Chizen has his way, the new Adobe will find itself smack in the middle of every sexy trend from Web 2.0 to mobile content. Not bad for a company once criticized for not getting the Web.
Via FlashForward blog
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Michael Parenti has created an installation piece for the exhibition "bensiz" ("without me") at address istanbul, titled "paiksiz" ("without paik"), in tribute to the death of video artist Nam June Paik. Pictures HERE.
The piece is comprised of an old macintosh g4 laptop in a plexiglass case, with an riff on paik's original installation piece, "ego machine" (1974). The desktop picture has the words "paik, paik paik....etc" as the original, with a few differences: the words are struck through, symbolizing paik's death, and static video snow has been added. The laptop is also running a 7 minute film in continuous loop, which is projected on a semi transparent curtain in the middle of the 35 meter long space. The film was created in grid pro, using original footage of paik in his coffin, which Todd Thille filmed at the memorial service on Saturday, February 4th, in New York City, This original footage is mixed with close up shots of fingers on a typewriter keyboard as if Paik's ego is still typing his name - even in death, and is seperated into the three channels of video color space - R, G, and B - symbolizing the color space which paik worked in, and is accompanied the song "Death is not the end" a cover version by the austrian band, "Der Scheitel". The surround soundsystem in the glass enclosed space was courteously provided by Bang & Olufsen
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