Tink has just uploaded a video of my Touching the Future presentation. A big thankyou to Tink as always for the vast amount of effort it takes to organise LFPUG every month. The video itself is very small but most of the presentation is verbal anyway and the sound is not too bad at all. However you can still download the slides if you wish. See the video here. Download the slides to follow along with here....

Just a quick reminder to say I’ll be presenting my talk “Touching the Future” at LFPUG tomorrow night. All the details can be found over at the site. Subjects discussed include: Media management/subscription based models Matured DRM (DRM that works) Convergence of devices / desktops Resulting paradigm shift (Google “Android project” mentality) Surveillance, the future of tracking (Amazon) Privacy when always online (public/private “personas”) Proliferation of sensors in devices (enabling “magic”) Augmented reality (advertisting) Cloud Computing (Information/Media Piping/Mashups for the many) Ubiquitous computing (social/physical impact) You can find the slides and source here....

What a great event, I only feel bad that I couldn’t have been around for more of it. As has been seen many times already, John did another amazing job of giving this conference a unique feel, where content comes before all else (as well as looking after the speakers very well). So here’s a big thanks to John, and also a hello to everyone I met, there’s now way too many people in this community to list individuals....

Just making my last minute preparations for Flash on the Beach 07. On Wednesday I’ll be giving my presentation entitled “Touching the Future” which will look at Human Computer Interaction and the web in 2012. I have a nice little suprise lined up that I didn’t want to put in the session description in case I couldn’t get hold of it, but let’s just say it might be able to read your mind!...

I just received an email from the guys as Playyoo about a fantastic competition they are running where you could win some amazing prizes. Here’s the info: “The contest is being held in advance of the launch of Playyoo’s social networking platform for mobile gamers. Over $10,000 is up for grabs! The rules are simple. Download Playyoo’s Flash Lite extension, create a game and upload it. All uploads are automatically entered until the entry deadline in early 2008....

A popular thread on the Flash Lite mailing list right now is entitled: “Does Flashlite have a future with mobile devices?“. This is very alarming, but a very just question with all things considered… In 2005 I started writing Foundation Flash for Mobile Devices (Friends of ED). This came about very soon after Flash Lite 1.1 was released, and writing continued right up until the release of Flash Lite 2.1 (we made sure we waited to include it)....

Coder?… Poker player?… If so then get down to the Adobe sponsored poker tournament on the 1st of November in London. I’m gutted I won’t be able to make it myself as I’m a hold’em fan but the timing is off. It looks like it will be a great event, and Sean McSharry has even put up a website for it, where you can register for the event and soon be able to check out the prizes on offer....

A press release from Nokia today states: “Flash Video will be integrated with the Web Browser for S60 … This allows people to view on the go Flash-enabled Web sites and Flash Video, such as YouTube” Nothing new to many of you, as it’s no doubt the inclusion of Flash Lite 3 that facilitates this. But it’s nice to see continued commitment to including Flash Lite in future revisions of their software....

I’ve just read some pretty valid concerns over at EverythingFlex with regards to Thermo, announced yesterday at MAX. I thought I’d post my response on here… At first I was also a little scared by this [tool]. But if you look at how it is at present, as Tink mentions there, you have to export layers out of Photoshop (which is a skill in itself unless your designer is ultra neat and doesn’t have a thousand layers with adjustments and masks)....

Just received an email with information on a great competition Adobe are holding for UK and Ireland residents: “People can win a MAX Barcelona pass and copy of Flex Builder or Flash CS3 everyday this week and on Friday they can enter to win the whole package – MAX pass, flight and hotel!!” Today’s question is very easy, and the prizes look great, so find out more and enter over at Andrew Shorten’s blog....