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So I am watching Adobe Max 2010 Monday session live. And writing this live so it may be emotional at some parts So here goes my notes on it.

Initially I was watching simple stream. Great quality and worked pretty good. Also I noticed a P2P version of stream demo  below. After a small hiccup I decided to try it and it worked pretty well. 33 neighbors and 500k upstream and down stream More on this later.

So first thing they talk about devices. Not much to tell there.

Then HTML time came, they did show that with their new Dreamweaver they are eating big pie of what Flash was used for these years. Beautiful sites with transitions. Probably still not enough to do something like that using HTML but its getting there. But that we knew for a while and could even do with JS. What HTML/JS really lacks is good code editor and good WYSIWYG editor. Years back when I was checking Dreamweaver and Flash I knew right away which IDE I like more. Now if such IDEs as they promise were available then my choice would have been a lot harder, I presume I would have chosen Flash still as it is still not enough. But in few years we may have right technology and right IDEs for pure HTML. Especially looking forward to WebGL.

Then lot of talks about E-Magazines, not much I found interesting there. Cool yeah, something I find interesting, probably not. Have no interest in papers and magazines anymore even in such media rich formats. Now my information consumptions are something like checking hundreds articles from one RSS feed aggregation shallowly and then dig/search/read only some of them often searching for alternative info on them. So no meter how spectacular they are, still what I need.

But there is one thing interesting about this section. All those E-Magazines are shown on something like 10 tablets, from small Android(7” I guess) tablets to iPad and something that is even bigger (Seems to be Android, firm or device name seems to be Matata, have no idea what that is, may be you do?). Anyways they show same E-Magazines re-flowed on all those tablets including iPad which is a dream. Build once and deploy everywhere. Impressive. I wonder how it will work out in real workflow, preparing sites, magazines and apps for different screen sizes is a big part of interface designers work. This has big potential of making it all more effective.

And now they talk about Flash, more precisely about video. How Flash enabled Youtube and Hulu and how it now brings in same to the big range of devices like Android TV. I am not sure how they did it but they were showing a full HD streaming looking flawlessly on a very big screen. I guess they just have good internet

And they released Air for TV Years back I never suspected that I will be able to develop for TVs… I wonder if I will though. Interesting how big market for smart TVs will be. But I guess it is not so important as simple flash content I will work one will work there out of the box (well almost I guess).

Next thing was about video streaming formats including P2P streaming I mentioned above.

Next Adobe tools ruining on tablets. Photoshop being example. Content aware fill and cool looking color mixer. Even more interesting is that color mixer was somehow connected to a PC on which mixed colors were used in real time. Seamless connectivity witlessly of devices… Not sure the type of use I would like but still cool. Multiplayer over the air games on mobile devices anyone?

Now enterprise. Hmm… Not promising? Well demo Day Software shows is impressive. Never seen site/CMS of that level , WYSIWYG editing, localization, mutliscreen testing across devices in one CMS. I guess demo of such CMS would make a lot of “WANT” effect for various site owners. I did not understood though if this is some Adobe or Day Software developed CMS.

Health care? Now that’s something I was not expecting. Some medical images viewer. Adobe and a medical application. Little bit strange combo Guess some people will like it.

Heh Blackberry PlayBook Tablet announced on Adobe Max stage showing Air running on it… Whaaa? What a cross promotion lol I guess Blackberry wins more with it getting Flash/Air developers there from the start then Adobe showing Air is available there too(including iPad and range of Adnroid devices). And Blackberry CEO shows that is indeed bigger piar for Blackberry by promising a free Playbook for Air app developers… Hmm… That’s generous or is there some kind of promotion trick?

Wow and now games time So they show some 3d/2d fighting game showing that it works across the devices using keyboard on PC, and touch interface on android phone probably with dumbed down graphics.  Hmm I wonder how much challenge it will be to have games that work on range of screens with range of input methods. Even AAA game ports from console to PC usually are pretty bad. Probably they are not developed to run on different systems from the start though.

Also they mention hardware acceleration mode that make some types of graphic running smoother. Not that impressive or new…

Hmm and now some worshiping social game for Facebook. Look pretty good actually. Remind me of Populous. Lighting, vulcanos, and lol ability to make your friends worshipers(mudlings?) to worship you Looks very fun And it is in a private beta… Idle Worship was it named? Not sure. Will need to keep and eye for it.

Wow Game controllers integration with Flash!!! they demoed X-Box controller controling Flash game I guess many will really really like that. Not me (prefere mouse/keyboard combo) but good to have that option.

Omg omg omg… AT LAST!!!!!! HELL YEAAAAH!!! 3D racing game in Flash in fullscreen with 0% CPU used!!!! How? Hardware 3D at last!!! I was waiting for this for years Ahaha and he is playing it on a steering wheel joystick You can’t imagine how I feel here right now, I was waiting for hardware 3D in Flash for last 2 -3 years Actually bytearray.org already has a video online that tells about that project Ouh and it seems Alternativa guys build that demo on top of new APIs I can’t wait

Hah and for the desert every Adobe Max 2010 attendee got Droid 2 phone May be I should have spent those 3$k to visit it, first session looked AWASOME

Well it seems all small sessions will be available at Adobe TV, some great sessions there so I will have some fun and useful watching later on