eBay released their AIR application last night. It’s a cool, flashy way to interact with eBay. If you’ve been to an Adobe event in the past year, you’ve seen this demo. We didn’t go to the desktop to do off-line, we did it because browsers were not built for applications, and AIR is a platform […]
Engage 2008: Nick.com
Nick.com is talking about their platform for off-line gaming. They wanted to bridge the off-line piece with their website, so they created a dealio where you have to find puzzle pieces on the website and drag-and-drop them into the AIR application. Once you find all the pieces, you get a 2 minute video and then […]
Engage 2008: BusinessObjects
BusinessObjects/SAP is on. They’re talking about their desire to create more engaging products. Once again they repeat the theme that the move to the Web cost theme in terms of their user experience and with Flex/AIR they can recapture some of that. They’ve got a new application–Polestar–that helps casual users generate reports. The first feature […]
Engage 2008: Yahoo!
Yahoo! is up talking. They’re talking about their increased use of Flash (including a new AS3 Maps API). They’re here to show two AIR apps they’ve written. They’re showing a widget–what they call a “sidebar” application–written in AS2 wrapped as an AS3/AIR application. The widget has four different areas all pulling data. Wrapping the AS2 […]
Engage 2008: Salesforce
Marc Benioff is talking about Salesforce.com. I’ll skip transcription of why Salesforce is so great, blah blah blah. “We used to get releases every four years at Oracle; we’ve had 25 major releases in 8 years at Salesforce.” After a long presentation on why Salesforce.com is so great, the SVP of Platform has taken the […]
Engage 2008: AOL
Three guys from AOL. “We’re making a big bet on AIR; why? Two reasons (three if we had more time): – Make it easy to upload data to share it – Recapture some of the UI richness that was lost when the Web gained prominence They’re now showing off Xdrive, which provides 5 GB of […]
Engage 2008: NASDAQ
NASDAQ has taken the stage. They’re talking about how one of the biggest complaints traders have is trades at prices they didn’t expect or variations on unexpected outcomes from a trade. They’re demoing an AIR application that introduces a concept called Market Replay. It lets you rewind the entire market and review what happened. They […]
Engage 2008: MFG.com
MFG.com: a marketplace for the manufacturing industry. It’s for anyone who’s designed a product and wants to get it manufactured. The CEO is on stage talking about it. He’s talking about all the difficulties involved in bringing a manufactured product to market. And, now he’s showing his product which manages the process of manufacturing product. […]
Engage 2008: FedEx
FedEx is on stage, talking about how they have been leaders in shipping, how they are better than competing shippers, blah blah blah. And now, they’re showing “FedEx Desktop”, an AIR application for tracking packages. So far, they’re demoing features that would work just fine in a web application, like: – dragging a tracking number […]
Engage 2008: Sprout
Sprout is a way to take content from any website and make it portable; it appears to be like Apple’s Dashboard creation stuff and made generic across platform. You’ve got a Flex-based Sprout Builder app that appears to be a content manager; you snip content, store it in their builder, and then use it. Actually, […]
Ben Galbraith 