Hi From NYC!

Sitting in the Flash Lite 101 session listening to Peter Barr-Watson’s presentation. The keynote just finished and it was extremely well-received. Kevin Lynch demoed some of the cool Flash content out there.

Kevin Showed:

An Adidas site where the clothing model is dancing around in a seamless Flash video interface. As you want to see more about the clothes the model will move in a way to show you the appropriate content. When you see it all together, it is extremely slick.

A prototype for an online banking site using Flex. The demo showed how easy it is to sort data by dragging a double-headed slider where the listings of transactions were updating in real time. This was the first time I have ever seen a sexy online banking application where it is actually meant to be fully useable. Whichever bank uses this interface will very soon have me as a customer.

The coolest of the demos though was for odeo. They have built a beta application to be an interface for that trendiest of trends, podCasting. In addition to subscribing and listening to podCasts, you can actually record your own using the built-in support for the microphone and publish it immediately on their site.

Maelstrom demos:

The Maelstrom demos still rock! they were the same demos as at the SF FlashForward, but the audience here seems to be pretty different so it seemed good to show them again. That and they are just neat to see each and every time.

Flash for Mobile:

The demos for Mobile were new. There was a demo of some new prototypes for Phone UIs and even a peek at a new Samsung device that just came out this week. There was one repetition in this segment, but I’m not going to give them a hard time on it since it was me :D. I got to go up on stage and show my traffic cam viewer again. It is really amazingly cool to be included in with such amazing demos. Thanks Macromedia!!

There was also a demo of the upcoming mobile emulator that will be in the next version of the IDE. I can’t wait until this is in the product. I spend soooo much time pushing my swfs to the phone. While this isn’t a replacement for testing on the device, I would bet the emulator will reduce the number of pushes to the device by at least 75%.

Anyways, after this session it will probably be back to tweaking my presentation for tomorrow (1:30 PM gramercy park room). BTW, check back here tomorrow. I will be releasing the source of the traffic viewer application as well as a game prototype I’ve been working on.