Recently, via Mark Doherty’s blog, I had noticed that Thomas Joos had created a mobile guide for the ongoing fitc.ca 2008 conference in Toronto this year (and also for FITC Amsterdam, previously this year).

I thought it was interesting to note the progression of mobile guides that have been created for the FITC conference (Toronto) over the past years, including:

2005 - (Flash Lite 1.1 - Creator: Scott Janousek, Target Device: Nokia 6620 or equivalent S60 device)

2007 - (Flash Lite 2.x - Creator: James Eberhardt, Target Device: Nokia 6680 or equivalent S60 device)

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Adobe has launched a Flash Mobile Gallery with some examples of the types of experiences you can attain with Flash Lite (including wallpaper, screen savers, games, and applications).

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Adobe MaD has a press release out today out of MWC.

Also, you can grab the printable PDF if you prefer.

Adobe Launches Flash Home and Flash Cast 2 at Mobile World Congress

BARCELONA, SPAIN — Feb. 11, 2008 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that major content providers, including MTV Networks, the Nasdaq Stock Market, eBay, Reuters, Dolce & Gabbana and others are using the company’s Flash Player compatible mobile products and solutions to extend their brands to the handheld market. Leading companies are adopting Adobe® Flash® Home, a new mobile application for rich, dynamic home screens, and Adobe Flash® Cast™ 2 technology, the next generation offline portal solution, to deliver high-impact user experiences and provide instant access to data services.

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Brian Frank and Rhett Woods (both with Adobe Mobile and Devices team) both got interviewed by beet.tv and talk about the past, present, and Adobe’s vision of Flash across devices.

Here are the interviews:

• Flash Player Debuts on U.S. Mobile Phones and Beet.TV has the Demo — Justin.tv and YouTube Look Great!
• Adobe Flash on Phones Started in Japan Five Years Ago: It’s All About Rich APP’s and Cool U.I

For more information on Flash Lite, check out the Adobe Mobile and Devices site.

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I caught this off some Mobile World Congress 2008 coverage.

“Engaging Mobile Experiences - Delivered Across Devices”, “Mobile Author - Design, Preview, and Test Engaging Mobile Content”, “flash on.” are all visible

The only ones I can make out is Kathy C. (Adobe MaD) … and perhaps Paul Lamonby (?). Of course, if you pictured feel free to label the flickr image for the fun value.

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Pictured:

Looks to be three elmo’s projecting live mobile content to some LCD’s … Mobile UI, Mobile Video, & can’t make out the last section … probably mobile applications and/or services.

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Via Bill Perry (Adobe, Mobile and Devices): there is a new devnet (aka ADC) article on Developing Flash Lite applications with dynamic layouts.

“In this tutorial I describe the process I used to develop the dynamic layout of the Bacardi® Mobile Cocktail application.

I’ll cover how to react to environment changes, such as the current time of day, and how to implement automatic Stage size and orientation switching.

Automatic adjustment is especially important for devices such as the Nokia N95, because it is capable of changing its resolution. For other devices, you will learn how to manually alter the orientation of your application to mimic that functionality.

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Here is an excellent example of extending a company’s brand into new mobile and embedded devices (which incidentally run Flash).

In this case, we are talking about the Chumby (an embedded open source internet connected device for delivering content).

Dating DNA Chumby widget

Here is more about Dating DNA:

“Today, more and more people are using free social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Craigslist, and others to meet new people for dating. Utilizing these sites is free and provides a more natural way of meeting new people than traditional dating sites of the past, such as Match.com and eHarmony.

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Mark Doherty (Adobe, MaD) is giving a session entitled ‘FlashOn - Mobile Devices’ at FITC 2007 Amerstdam, this week.

So, if you’re at the conference, you might want to check out what Mark has to say.

For more information on Mark’s session, go here.

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This advert where “Bilgehan” (over at Kuneri Lite) utilizes his unique talent of handrawing an N95 using Microsoft Paint and a mouse … is simple awesome-ness.

IMHO, it puts the iPhone “baby music” commercial to a bit of shame (even though it’s not an N95 commercial per se …)!

Spread the word and dig it.

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I caught some news (about some Japanese companies that their showing some technology to US investors) that contained a new Flash Lite service/product in Japan …

Seems to be some kind of transcoding service … but someone will have to verify.

“Wisdom Web’s “Mobile Glimpse” makes it possible to view contents on Websites with mobile terminals such as mobile phones in the same way as on PCs.

It converts HTML data into Flash Lite data so that users can browse Websites at high speed with mobile phones. The functions needed for browsing are not mounted on mobile phones but on servers.

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