If you are planning to become a professional blogger, you might want to watch the following video before quitting your current job. This is good fun. Barely Political takes us on a tour of a blogging facility where “professional bloggers” are made to blog 24/7 under inhumane conditions (do you believe it?) putting their health at risk and usually receive almost nothing for their work. Thanks to Kiltak.
Within the first ten days of the new, open cellular policy in Cuba, 7,400 cellphone accounts have been opened by regular Cuban citizens. The 7,400 contracts were opened for about $110 via Cuba’s only (and state-owned) wireless provider, ETECSA. Handsets cost around $75 — no cheap proposition when you consider that the average Cuban citizen’s annual state salary is around $240. Previously, contracts could only be opened by government officials or foreigners. 7,400 is a tiny slice of Cuba’s 11.4-million person population (.0006%), but it’s a start.
Cuba’s telephone monopoly says 7,400 new cell phone accounts have been contracted in the 10 days since all Cubans were allowed to sign up for service.
Previously, cellular phones were offered only to foreigners or Cubans in top government positions or jobs with foreigners. But many other Cubans already had cell phones through contracts foreigners opened for them.
ETECSA phone company official Maximo Lafuente Vazquez says about 300,000 cellular lines already existed on the island before April 14, when President Raul Castro’s new government lifted the restriction on service. Lafuente’s comments appeared Thursday in the Communist Youth newspaper.
A cell phone contract costs about $120 to activate — half a year’s wages on the average state salary.
Via Biskero,
Here a new blog about Flash Lite and mobile technologies Jappit, author is Alessandro La Rosa.
Krishna
Via AllAboutSymbian, Skype , Biskero.org has released a beta version of a J2ME client.
“Skype has now released an official mobile client. The application is written in Java so it should run on a variety of phones including all S60 and UIQ phones. The application uses an Internet connection for status and contact information and for Skype chat (instant messaging). However while the application does allows you to make calls, it routes them through the PSTN (phone) network rather than over the Internet. This means you will be charged for both incoming and outgoing calls of any type. Read on for more.”
PS: voice calls are not over data!
Adobe is conducting a workshop on RIA in Pune next week. Here are the details about the event?
“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. ”
Details about the event:
Location: Deccan Rendezvous, Pune, India
Date: 30th April
Time: 10AM – 6PM
To Register:
Send your Name, Mobile number, Company Designation, Official Email-ID to flex@endtoend.in
Don’t hesitate to “BLOG” about this event!!
Flash Lite 3.1 port is now available to OEMs. Here’s quick look of what’s new in FL3.1:
– Much better browsability than FL3
– Support for h.264 codec
– Flash 9 content will play in FL3.1 as long as it is published as AS2. AS3 engine is not ported to FL3 yet.
Watch my friend and fellow flashlite developer Ugur’s, first KuneriLite video advert. It’s quite unique piece of art, done in MS Paint ;).
I am sure you will like it and find interesting. One thing is for sure, I cannot work on MS Paint, rather I can do effortlessly either in Adobe flash or even Photoshop.
Good Luck
Krishna
New Adobe AIR Application Redefines Next-Generation TV Experiences for Viewers and Broadcasters
Today Adobe Systems today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Media Player 1.0 software. An Adobe AIR™ application, this customizable, cross-platform media player provides exciting new ways for viewers to discover and interact with their favorite content, while offering revenue and brand-building opportunities for content publishers. Major television broadcasters and leading content publishers, including CBS, MTV Networks, Universal Music Group, PBS, CondéNet, and Scripps Networks have worked with Adobe to provide a broad range of television programming and entertaining video content to viewers.
Additionally, Adobe announced Adobe TV, a network in Adobe Media Player with a series of shows that provides expert instruction and original series programming about Adobe products to the worldwide creative community (see separate press release). Adobe Media Player is available for immediate download at http://www.adobe.com/go/mp .
“With Adobe Media Player, we’re bringing viewers and content owners closer together, with an experience that doesn’t constrain them by platform or proprietary software application,” said John Loiacono, senior vice president of Creative Solutions at Adobe. “It’s a merger of TV Guide and DVR for Internet video content. Some great shows, like The Hills from MTV and CSI from CBS, is already available to view and more will be coming soon.”
Broader Reach for Video Consumers
Adobe Media Player can provide high-quality playback of streamed, downloaded or locally-stored video in the Adobe Flash format. For the first time, consumers can download video outside the browser in the Adobe Flash format, which can be viewed in 1080p, 720p or 480i video display resolutions with the most advanced audio quality. Users can also subscribe to television shows and other online video content and then automatically receive new episodes of the shows as they become available. To help viewers discover new content, a broad, searchable catalog of shows from leading media companies and networks is available and it is expected that it will continually expand to include video from additional broadcasters, studios and independent producers. Some of the initial content available on Adobe Media Player includes: CSI: New York, CSI: Miami, Big Brother, Star Trek, Melrose Place, Hawaii Five-O, The Twilight Zone and MacGyver from CBS; clips from The Hills, MTV News and Yo! MTV Raps from MTV Networks; select shows on HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network and Fine Living Network from Scripps Networks; Epicurious.com, Style.com and Wired.com from CondéNet; PBS programming and music videos from Universal Music Group. Additional content from MTV Networks’ brands including MTV, Nickelodeon, COMEDY CENTRAL, VH1, CMT, Logo, Spike, The N, GameTrailers and Atom Films will be made available over the next several months.
“As the Internet has matured and video has become more and more popular, content owners are looking for new ways to connect with their audiences, both online and offline,” said Melissa Webster, vice president, IDC Content and Digital Media Technologies. “Audiences want a great playback experience, including streamed or downloaded high-quality video. At the same time, content owners need to protect and monetize their content via premium services or advertising. This is the opportunity that Adobe is addressing with Adobe Media Player.”
New Revenue Models for Content and Media Publishers
Adobe Media Player provides content owners and media publishers with new ways to distribute, measure and build businesses around video content. Unlike existing media players, Adobe Media Player enables viewers to subscribe to free content, giving them control to watch their favorite shows both online and offline. The player also offers next-generation offline monetization and branding options, including viewer-centric dynamic advertising for targeted marketing campaigns and the ability to customize the look and feel of the player to match the brand or theme of the video content. Adobe Media Player can also provide content publishers with anonymous measurement of content usage data, such as when and how often a video has been viewed, in addition to supporting protection options such as protected streaming, advertising protection and video DRM protection.
Adobe’s Growing Video Ecosystem
Leveraging Adobe’s Emmy® Award winning Flash® architecture, Adobe Media Player is a key part of Adobe’s ecosystem for the creation and delivery of next-generation broadcast entertainment. It complements and leverages other Adobe components, including: Adobe Flash Player; Adobe Flash CS3 Professional; Adobe Flash Media Server 3 software for streaming media applications; Adobe Flash Media Rights Management Server for content protection; Flash Lite™ mobile video playback technology; Adobe’s range of media authoring tools such as Adobe Creative Suite® 3 Production Premium software for video, audio and motion graphics production; and Adobe Media Encoder for compression and live streaming. Adobe Media Player is an Adobe AIR software application, a revolutionary cross-operating system runtime that brings rich Internet applications to the desktop.
Availability
Adobe Media Player is immediately available as a free download for Windows and Macintosh platforms from
http://www.adobe.com/go/mp
About Adobe Systems Incorporated
Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information – anytime, anywhere and through any medium. For more information, visit www.adobe.com .
Via Alessandro,
On April 15th, Nokia and Adobe will host a Webinar on Flash and Mobile Browsing.
“Join us for this webinar, where we will look at that integration, give some pointers for developing online mobile flash content and provide a full Q & A session.”
Via http://www.timeanddate.com
Corresponding time in India
Bangalore (India – Karnataka) Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 7:30:00 PM UTC+5:30 hours
krishna
I have been using Adobe Captivate since its Version 1, since my Wipro days in Bangalore, India. Now its Version 3 from which you can make everything: presentations, interactive lecture content, practice activities, quizzes, etc.
This video is just a beginner demo introducing the software; I will continue to post some of the more eLearning relevant ones as I find them. Special thanks to YouTuber: rzanotti….Enjoy!
Experience Design 