Twitter apps on Adobe Air
April 28, 2008
Twitter is starting to buck a trend, everywhere you go it seems every other blog post is about Twitter, and with the official launch of Adobe Air, all sorts of apps have been coming out, here are a some of the best Twitter apps currently out using the Adobe Air platform.
eBay Desktop 1.0 is now available
February 27, 2008
eBay Desktop 1.0 is now available for download. This free application has been made as an alternative to the website. You can use it to search, browse, bid and keep track of your auctions.
The 1.0 release contains lots of bug fixes and performance enhancements and from user feedback some new features. eBay desktop takes advantage of the Adobe AIR platform which was recently released.
We have worked on the project for nearly 2 years, and I am very pleased with the end result. We have lots more enhancements planned for the coming weeks and months, but this the most important milestone so far. The eBay Desktop team from Effective UI has worked incredibly hard on this, and I’d like to thank them all: Sean, Greg O., Greg C. Jason, and all the project alumni: thank you! And thanks to all the eBay members who have provided great suggestions, ideas, bug reports, and words of praise. I hope that we can continue to provide great user experiences that make the eBay marketplace more fun and dynamic, and help connect more individuals through the simple act of commerce.
You can download the destop client here
[Via eBay Desktop Blog]
ShifD launches in Beta
February 25, 2008
Hot on the heals of the release of Adobe Air, the New York Times are releasing an application in public beta named ShifD.
ShifD is a mobile application that provides users the capability to seamlessly shift content back and forth between their desktop computers and mobile devices. Users cab update information from any Web browser, through their mobile web browser on the ShiftD mobile site or by using the downloadable Adobe Air application on there desktop. Information added through any of these methods is saved to the users id and automatically updated and accessible on all devices.
I’ve been using ShifD all day today and I’ve got to say it’s a excellent little app.
Download the December issue of iProng
December 3, 2007
Silverchair, the alternative rockers who’ve sold six million albums worldwide, are iProng Magazine’s December cover story. Also featured: iPod and iPhone commentary galore, as well as interviews with Matthew Ebel, Racquel Roberts, Rebecca Loebe, Natalie Gelman, Joe Hewitt of Facebook, and Tim Bourquin of New Media Expo.
Ewan Spence and Hayden Black attack each other’s new video podcasts, Olympic gold medalist swimmer Natalie Coughlin talks iPod, plus on-site reports from PodCamp, VON, BlogWorld, and the UK iPhone launch!
This month’s columnists include Bill Palmer, C.C. Chapman, Natalie Gelman, Eric Nguyen, Matt Saye, Hayden Black, Christine Cavalier, Joseph Dougherty, Justin Kownacki, Shooby Kumar, Cali Lewis, Christopher S. Penn, Tim Robertson, Allison Sheridan, Ewan Spence, and Julie Daman.
This month’s on-site reporters include Don McAllister, Michael Bailey, Chris Brogan, Tim Coyne, Whitney Hoffman, and Jason Tucker. This month’s reviewers include Steve Lubitz, Keri Franz, Jeff Roney, and Jennifer Selke.
PDFs to get contextual ads
December 2, 2007
The deal offers publishers an opportunity to monetise their PDF files and could provide a sizeable new audience for advertisers - Adobe claims that 90% of PCs have one of its readers.
The contextual, clickable ads will appear in a panel to the right of the content, and will be served dynamically. Yahoo! will sell the placements on a CPC basis, sharing the revenue with Adobe and the publisher.
Users of PDFs could provide a valuable audience for advertisers, according to Adobe’s Rob Tarkoff:
“By partnering with Yahoo! on this innovative advertising service we are creating opportunities for publishers to build new businesses around unique content that previously was just given away or not available to a mass online audience.”
The scheme launches in beta today, with IDG InfoWorld, Wired, Pearson’s Education and Meredith Corporation the first publishers on board.
