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Create engaging, cross-platform rich Internet applications

Rich Internet Applications produce eye-popping results because they stand tall against the swarm of ordinary Internet applications.

Adobe’s innovative tools like Flex, Adobe AIR™ and Flash and more enable you to combine rich motion, video, imaging, and sound creating the rich experience. And that’s not all; Adobe makes sure that your Rich Internet Applications run smoothly on millions of PC’s and Internet devices. The Adobe® Flash® Player runtime reaches 98% of Internet-enabled computers and more than 450 million devices, offering you greater reach than with any other client technology available.

Adobe AIR™, the latest client from Adobe, leverages the power of Flash Player while adding the capability to deploy RIAs directly to the desktop.
Venue: Deccan Rendezvous, Pune | Date: 30th April ‘08 | Time: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm (more…)

After being served with an unsolicited $44.6 billion takeover bid from Microsoft, Yahoo has reacted cautiously. In a press release early Friday, Yahoo said it will “evaluate this proposal carefully and promptly in the context of Yahoo!’s strategic plans and pursue the best course of action to maximize long-term value for shareholders.”

Microsoft said to Yahoo board that, depending on how Yahoo responds, it “reserves the right to pursue all necessary steps to ensure that Yahoo!’s shareholders are provided with the opportunity to realize the value inherent in our
proposal.” (more…)

As a developer, you’ll soon be able to create social applications for the millions of global Orkut users. Orkut now supports OpenSocial, a common set of APIs, HTML, and JavaScript designed to let developers easily build social applications.

orkut offers an automatic transliteration option in the scrapbook that converts Roman characters to the Devanagiri characters used in Hindi. This lets you type your own language including Hindi words phonetically in English script and still have them appear in their correct alphabet. Note: this is not the same as translation — it’s the sound of the words that are converted from one alphabet to the other, not their meaning. (more…)

Here comes, A new player in online Word processing game. Sources say, Adobe Systems has officially entered the “Web office” game. it has acquired an 11-person start-up, called Virtual Ubiquity, that has built a free Web word processor called Buzzword. Financial terms were not disclosed.

The move expands Adobe’s collaborative software services and steps up its competition with Microsoft. Google and a host of other Web application providers.

Adobe also is scheduled to announce a service, code-named Share, that allows people to invite others to view and access documents stored by Adobe. Documents can be embedded inside a Web page as well. The service, which is still in testing mode, will offer users one gigabyte of storage for free.

Adobe is also set to release its own Media Player version 1.0 in the first half of next year.

I am very excited reading this post and wanted to participate. I hope you guys are also preparing yourself to go for this. The one who are not aware about the big news please go ahead and read this …

If you are doing any development work (including skinning and UI design)
with Adobe Flex. Here’s your chance to be a contributor to an Adobe
Developer Library book to be published in 2008, “Flex 3 Cookbook.”
Adobe’s got a terrific site for Flex developers of any stripe to show
their best stuff, and O’Reilly and Adobe are partnering on a book that
will include some of the best contributions from the site. Each
contribution uses the classic O’Reilly cookbook
“Problem/Solution/Explanation” format; if you’ve got strong material to
show the rest of the world, it couldn’t be easier to write up your
material in the online fields, and join the cookbook party. Flex
developers are in very short supply in an exploding market, so here’s
your chance to show your stuff to the rest of the community!
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm?event=homepage&productId=2

Microsoft has released to the Web (RTW) Silverlight 1.0, a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering a richer user experiences on the Web.

“Silverlight is a popular new way to build and deliver cross-browser, cross-platform experiences on the Web,” said Miguel de Icaza, vice president of Developer Platforms and leader of the Mono project at Novell. “Novell is excited to work with Microsoft to extend

Silverlight beyond Windows and Macintosh to Linux with Moonlight, so Linux users everywhere can enhance their rich media and interactive experiences on the Web.” As of now more than 35 companies have already signed up to support Silverlight.
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It looks that the demand for Adobe Flex 2 skills across the world is exponentially increasing. Based on the facts which shows the rates in UK with a comparison to our Application Development category.

Contracts and Contractors Rate for Adobe Flex 2 Developers
The interesting fact is  Flex 2 developers demand and rates are increased by 60% while Java rates are still unchanged, at least it shows by the data provided here Contracts and Contractors Rate for Java Developers

The same thing is with .Net as well it has increased its rates by just 4%. Contracts and Contractors Rate for .Net Developers

Last week I met with John Koch, Adobe Relation Manager, Asia Pac and Puneet, Sr. Product Manager (Flex)  on a face to face discussion on various aspects of Flex and Adobe technologies. I can say that the way Adobe guys are putting their best to change the techno world, the day is no more longer to come when we will have a true platform for Rich Internet Application development, which will be beneficial for both developer as well as the end user.