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Interesting things in Adobe Labs – Adobe Wave

Posted by James - 27/11/08 at 09:11:59 am

Adobe Wave is just one of the interesting projects on the Adobe Labs site – a “one-line API call” for displaying desktop notifications, built on Adobe AIR and hosted by Adobe.  Adobe are certainly committed to making AIR a success, and one of the ways they’re doing this is by developing and releasing applications like this.

Like what?  Well, AIR as a platform can be driven by several factors, and one of those is a mix of commercial and community applications.  There’s quite a few commerical applications out there, but the community ones seem a little slower coming – natural really, as you spend more time working on the commerical stuff!

Looking at Adobe Wave, it fills a bit of a niché – desktop notification system – but by getting there first Adobe should (hopefully) keep things open and unbiased (than if it had been developed by a commercial company).  I don’t know, maybe I’m reading a little too much into their project…

Anyway, it’s an interesting project, and opens up new advertising and notification methods for both commercial and community websites, applications, systems – a bit of support from all of those and you’ve got a whole load more people with AIR installed!

James Ford

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About the author: James is a Senior New Media Developer at MMT Digital, and has BA(Hons) in Design for Interactive Media from the University of Gloucestershire. He loves designing and producing all sorts of website and Flash-related things, as well as prattling on about technologies. Day-to-day he works with Flash, Dreamweaver, Director, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS) and in his spare time he mucks about in Flex and Wordpress. Follow James on Twitter.

2 Comments »

  1. Can’t wait to build my own “The Adobe updater needs your attention” notification

    Comment by Harald — 27 November 2008 #

  2. That will be fun. – Have you seen the Dear Adobe site?

    Comment by James — 27 November 2008 #

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