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!
Can’t wait to build my own “The Adobe updater needs your attention” notification
That will be fun. – Have you seen the Dear Adobe site?