My new favorite film. Serenity. Lacking proper words to describe. It’s my favorite TV series made whole (and on the Big Damn Screen!).
And for those of you who are already Browncoats, here is a link to a flyer I’ve created to help promote the film.
And if you haven’t already, I recommend viewing Firefly the TV series upon which Serenity is based on.
Wow. I’m still speechless.
Having spent a significant part of my previous life guiding client research, strategy, and competitive analysis for Openwave, I’m completely floored by this news.
Flash is a jazzy media player. Flash is also a very kick-ass application platform, very much like a browser is. Macromedia has also nutured a huge and formidable Flash developer community, and has leveraged Flash’s strengths extremely well, packaging their core technologies to bring value to customers and users.
And this is quite a story when Macromedia decided to go mobile. Openwave makes a web browser, and let’s face it, when you stack up a traditional mobile web browser against mobile Flash, it’s clear who’s sexier.
And when we (Openwave ‘we’) realized Macromedia was going mobile (this was before they announced it several years ago), our strategic direction shifted. One of those directions was SVG and to a more limited extent, a partnership with Adobe.
Ah yes, SVG and Flash. Much has been written on that topic.
One thing I remember vividly is back when Thomas Reardon wanted to show something SVG related at DEMOmobile 2003. So I set about packaging the prototype SVG engine at that time, integrating it into our UI framework, and building several sexy demos to show off our engine’s capabilities. The demo was a big hit, and I heard that Reardon and the Macromedia CEO exchanged some words after the presentation.
Now that Adobe and Macromedia are part of the same family, I hope their respective technologies can stop vesting so much energy in competing and combine their strengths to make forward progress in moving rich internet applications, media, and mobile forward.
Though I do worry, it’s a pretty large company now.
Update: David Shea weighs in.
Welcome to a slightly updated form of my web journal. Since my server crashed about a month ago, I’ve been looking to move to a dedicated host for e-mail, web, and commercial web applications. Dreamhost has fit the bill perfectly, and at their recommendation, satine.org is now running Wordpress.
Not all of the templates are in place yet, so things will seem a bit funky for a short while I navigate the new templating system. (Things like Recent Artwork, some links, and my Music will come online soon)
With this new system, I’m excited, it’s much easier to post and manage satine.org now, so look forward to more frequent posts from me over time.
Cheers!
Although I’ve been down with a nasty flu all this week, I dragged myself over to WonderCon in SF to see Joss Whedon, creator of Firefly / Serenity; to see the cast, Nathan Fillion, Adam Baldwin and Summer Glau; and to visit with fellow Browncoats.
The experience was amazing! Everyone was so personable and friendly. At the autograph area, Nathan remarked that his wore similar glasses to mine. And, I managed to comment on his flower-patterned shirt. Adam showed off his Firefly Stunt Team t-shirt with great glee. Summer was quite cordial and pleasant. And Joss, an awesome guy! Poor Joss had a cold too, but still took time to sign my poster and compliment on my Willow and Tara drawing. (“Gorgeous!” he said. :-)
The Browncoats are definitely the best fans ever! You can easily pick out Browncoats from the rest of the crowd, they’re always friendly and make you feel welcome, what a great gang. When I have more time, I’ll definitely help out, it’s too bad that my busy schedule and my cold prevented me from staying late and going to the after party Shindig.
You can see photos from the event in the BD photo gallery.
I went to Macworld San Francisco 2005 today, and saw several really cool new things, including the iPod Shuffle, the Mac Mini, iWork ‘05 and iLife ‘05. I also bumped into Phil Schiller, VP of Product Marketing at Apple. Here are some photos from the exhibition floor, but you can see the rest in the Macworld 2005 photo gallery.
