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Sydney Morning Herald moves to Flash video

I recently noticed Fairfax have switched to Flash video. You can see it in action on the Sydney Morning Herald site and the The Age site. For a long time I avoided looking at the video clips on their sites due to the poor Mac support more than anything.

It's great to see them using the best of breed technology for video on the web!

Adobe changes the digital video game

In what I believe to be a game changing move for the web video industry, Adobe today announced their plans to support H264 video in Flash Player 9 Update 3 which is expected to ship this Fall.

The implications of this could mean a shift for the whole industry in getting behind a single standard which can only be a good thing for content owners, producers and software developers.

I look forward to watching this play out from the sidelines

I don't understand Nik's point

Nik Cubrilovic discusses todays announcement by Adobe to open source most of what makes up Flex, the framework, compiler, debugger and so on.

He then goes on to tell developers 'not to hold their breath' as the Flash runtime won't be open sourced anytime soon. 

I guess my view here is why would that be good for anyone? Does anyone really want to see a fractured runtime environment as exists with Java on the desktop, where you can't really be sure which Java someone has and how a different version might perform or an application behave in a different manner when using one Java runtime or another

Sure there are some benefits of an open source runtime, but I'd rather have a single common runtime across several operating systems where I can be confident of a consistent experience.

Adobe Consulting growing in Australia

Some of you may know I’ve been focused on trying to get a Consulting practice off the ground in Australia over the last 12 months. 

It’s certainly been an interesting and challenging 12+ months since that direction change from my role at Macromedia in Asia.

It’s exciting to let people know the practice is starting to gain significant momentum and with that comes growth

Joining the practice this month is Susan Wolfe, who will be assuming a leadership role for the practice, I’m very excited about having Susan’s support moving forward.  Susan has deep experience in usability and user centered design approaches which is a key focus for Adobe Consulting.  She will be a great asset to the practice and personally I’m looking forward to having some support

You also might have picked up that Matt Voerman is joining the team and it’s going to be great working with him in building the technical depth of the practice. Welcome aboard Matt!

With Susan coming onboard it’s going to allow me the opportunity of re-immersing myself in the technology a little more than I have in the past year which is a welcome change, I’ll be focused on supporting Susan with technical leadership for the practice.

Finally we are still looking for a Senior Consultant with deep J2EE experience to join the team working with Matt and I that is passionate about building disruptive applications on our Flex and LiveCycle platform for strategic customers in Australia so if you are interested and based in Sydney or willing to relocate drop me an email.

With what Adobe has planned in the technology roadmap this year I can’t think of a better place to be.