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06/21/06
Check out Tom Higgins’ blog today: Tom Higgins: Shockwave Player Update.
So, basically, we still have an optional toolbar install when installing Shockwave. No change there. But read between the lines. They have a “mutli-year” agreement. This must mean that Adobe is getting money from Google, which flows directly to Director and Shockwave development. In addition, Adobe is comitted to maintaining and perhaps improving Director and Shockwave. I already felt this was true, but here is some confirmation for the non-believers.
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06/19/06
Seems my company is not the only one in Colorado getting some benefit out of using video iPods. My baseball team, the Colorado Rockies, are using them in the dugout to review plays and such. Cool. Video iPods help Rockies prepare for game - Yahoo! News.
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06/08/06
Adobe has officially announced the MAX 2006 conference. There was some doubt in my mind whether Adobe would continue the Macromedia tradition of developer conferences. But here it is, Oct 23-26 in Las Vegas.
One worry is that I saw it called a “user conference” on one page, which is different than a “developer” conference. Macromedia had developers, Adobe had users. You develop with Director, Flash, Cold Fusion and Dreamweaver, but you use PhotoShop, Acrobat and Illustrator. But I may be reading too much into it. The info pages show sessions, networking and even “birds-of-a-feather” gatherings.
Not sure if I will go to this one. I had a blast reporting from the MAX 2005 conference, but I’ve got a few other conferences I want to go to as well this year.
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06/07/06
So I’ve been spending a lot of time, money and energy on video podcasting. After doing nothing but making games for 10 years, this is a big departure and a big risk for me. I’ve invested about 1.5 salaried positions in video podcast production, and we have 6 shows up and running on CleverMedia.tv. Two are regular weekly programs, and one is a daily. We think the quality of our shows, particularly Podcast Salad and Book Stories, is quite high and we’ve received some great feedback from the podcasting world.
But ultimate success depends on people finding the show and watching it. And that boils down to one thing: the Apple iTunes music store. They list lots of podcasts, including ours, in a searchable directory. But the main way people discover new podcasts is by getting featured in their “Featured Video Podcasts” section.
I assumed the way to get “featured” is to simply work hard and produce good, quality stuff. Eventually, we’d get rewarded. Right? But week after week, I see us passed over while they accept some odd choices. Some are nothing more than commericals in an RSS feed, others are re-purposed TV network content. Some of the podcasts have very simple production values and are created by one or two people, while others come from huge broadcast corporations. There doesn’t seem to be a common thread as to why those shows in particular are featured.
Now I hate to wine about something like this. I know it is sour grapes and all that. But there is a lot at stake here. I would hate for our video podcasting efforts to fail simply because someone at Apple randomly decided not to feature us. That’s sad. I know that they want to feature the best of the best, and I truly belive that we are — or at least that we deserve a shot.
So, there is one way you can help. I figure if they get a lot of reviews of our shows, then they can’t keep ignoring us. Go to Podcast Salad, Book Stories and The Daily Vlog and give them a look. Then open iTunes, go to the Music Store, select Podcasts and then search for those podcasts and add a review. Your help is greatly and humbly appreciated.
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06/06/06
With a war on and economic turmoil, our Congress still seems to think that it needs to spend time helping parents of children raise their kids by censoring video games. CNet has a rundown of seven bills being considered: Video games in Congress’ crosshairs.
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