Cognitive Labs

Revitalize your mind with a little ActionScript. Verily, this is an odd little scripting language. You can serialize objects, but must become accustomed to the sometimes obscure syntax therein.

With its recent open-sourcing by Adobe, count on a river of innovations. For those accutomed to working in a text editor, white screen environment there is an acculturation process because many times you end up working in a small, framed space that accidentally gets minimized - so there is a constant fear of losing that last code snippet. But quickly becomes second nature as you realize how much ActionScript code is rehashed (for example by creative agencies doing ads) so really the level of creativity should be much better

Labels: actionscript, actionscript.org, adobe, breathe, code rehash, objects, serialized objects, turing, whew

There were two major stories in technology over the weekend, for those interested in this topic. The first is Google's acquisition of DoubleClick on Friday, and the second, Microsoft's announcement of Silverlight, a vector authoring tool designed to compete with Adobe. Since Flash is installed on up to 99% of the total available market (TAM) for browsers, it will be interesting to see what their strategy is.

Labels: adobe, doubleclick, Flash, Google, microsoft, silverlight

The World's oldest newspaper, published for centuries, has ceased publishing a paper version and now will only produce a digital version on the Internet.

Isn't this an ironic twist of events? In a similar vein, imagine companies that produces typesets and printing presses - long gone - however, the purveyors of tools to create digital media have been thriving for two decades...with no end in sight.

Labels: adobe, gutenberg, media, paper