Adobe has confirmed a rumor first reported last night by ZDNet that it is ceasing developing of the Flash Player for mobile devices. In reality the announcement will have little impact on users, but it is getting wide spread press because of the role Flash played in the early days of the smartphone market.
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Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. 
Incubator YouWeb’s latest company, iSwifter, is letting users access flash content on their iPads. Let’s take a closer look at why this is important after the jump.
Blip.tv co-founder and chief technology officer Justin Day told Beet.TV founder and executive producer Andy Plesser the online-video site will adopt HTML5 as its standard player for the Web and other platforms, replacing Adobe’s Flash.
Day told Beet.TV HTML5 runs within the browser without a plug-in, and “faster.” Beet.TV uses Blip.tv as its principal video player. Read more
Cross-platform mobile web browser SkyFire has earned nearly $1 million over a single weekend after it’s appearance on Apple’s iOS app store.
SkyFire launched for iOS devices last Wednesday at $2.99 a pop. However demand for the program was so great that the company SkyFire Labs temporarily pulled the app down after just five hours to keep their servers from being overloaded. The company then allowed users to download the app in more controlled batches.
SkyFire’s claim to fame is its ability to run Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Quicktime web content without additional plugins. Flash video is pre-processed on the SkyFire servers so it can be played in the mobile browser; a feature that iOS devices such as the iPhone and the iPad lack.
Over the first weekend on the iOS store, SkyFire was downloaded more than 300,000 times, according to MobileCrunch. After Apple’s 30% cut, the SkyFire team will still get between $600,000 and $700,000. Had the company been prepared for the barrage of initial downloads, they might have made even more during that time period.
While SkyFire charges money for the iOS version, the browser is available for free on other mobile platforms such as Google’s Android OS.
Apple changed its mind and will now allow Flash apps on iPads, iPhones and iPods. This comes soon after web designers declared Flash doomed and reverses Apple’s App Store banning of Flash-based Apps and refusal to support Flash on the iPad tablet. Pundits were expecting a creative exodus away from Flash to HTML5, but now Apple has given Flash a new lease on life. The drama left me wondering “What’s going on?”, “Is this Important?” and “What is Flash, anyway?”. My findings after the jump.
All it takes to “share” a favorite website with your friends or “bookmark” an article to save and post on Facebook is a simple click. In fact, the “AddThis” feature on everything from magazine to social networking sites has become so commonplace that even the savviest of Internet consumers may not realize the information they give away each time they click that button.
But now the convenient feature is very much in the spotlight thanks to a federal lawsuit claiming the company behind AddThis, Clearspring Technologies, broke the law by using the widget to gather information on users, including children. The suit was filed in the central district of California by attorneys for a group of minors and their parents.
Super Rewards, an Adknowledge company and one of the largest virtual currency offer platforms on the web, has announced today a new version of its ad offer platform for Flash. The new platform allows players to accept any Super Rewards payment option without leaving their Flash game. Previous to this, gamers that wanted to use Super Rewards offers would have to click over to another screen, and sometimes would have to quit their current game to engage in the monetization aspect of the game. Super Rewards is stating that the new platform can be integrated into a Flash game in less than 30 minutes.
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DocStoc, the place to find and share professional documents, has long been one of my favorite Web destinations. From business plan templates to generic job applications, the Website houses an embeddable/sharable/printable doc for just about every business practice… Read more
The Flash Site of the February is – very musical, made for real fans of sound and motion. Uniqlo Mixplay is dance and sound mixer to create unique song with attractive dance steps just for you. Pure idea – brilliant accomplishment.
Paul Neave has launched new project called Neave.tv – his personal TV channel.
Neave.tv is flash based tv channel that use videos from Blip.tv, Google Video and YouTube, it is experimental project of using video and I would like to say that it is personal video bookmark page of Paul Neave. Interesting video materials, nice design, easy to use, fast working – I think experiment is successful.
