MAX2005 Day Two

Sunday, Anaheim
Sunny but with scattered Showers. About 20C

Got up early and farted around a bit since it as 7 am, but the old body clock is saying 11 am. Took a walk over to Disneyland but didn't go in. I guess they are taking the User Group managers to some sort of event there Tuesday night.

Walked around the town a bit and bought some strawberries from a market right by a field growing them. Nice to see they didn't pave all of Orange County.

Registered...very easy as it was still early and only a handful were there. The conference starts for most at four, but earlier today for me being a User Group manager.

This is the last post for today. I am going for a swim then off to the convention.


Today's Roster

Sunday, October 16th
Community College
Time: 1:45 pm - 5:00pm
Location: Anaheim Convention Center (Rooms 210A + 210B)
**You will need to check in at the registration desk before being allowed into the facility. Registration lines may be long, so please allow for that. If you are not attending MAX, but will be at Community College please email me to ensure that I have arranged a pass for you for Community College access. Full agenda below.

Welcome Reception
Time: 5pm - 7pm
Location: Exhibit Hall in Convention Center

Community Appreciation Dinner
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Location: Bus will leave from the Convention Center at 6:45pm and at 7:15



Wireless Mobile Devices

Supper update (or is it bedtime?)
Some quick notes regarding use of Flash Lite for mobile device market. This is mostly what was of interest to me but I tried to capture most things.

Last 12 months
-Kodak releases EasyOne camera that utilizes Flash Player (FP) for navigation interface. Wireless so images can be sent direct to server
-mm reaches deal with Nokia for interface platform using FP
-mm is working with Samsung for deployment in Korean market for FP as interface
-Today marks the first FlashCast through iChannel
-90 OEM phones shipping with FP

Next
-degrading of Walled Gardens to allow anyone to create Flash content for free/sale/download to phones - the service providers will not be able to control this.
-three types of FP delivery:
1. enhanced content and browsing
2. customized interface
3. converged data experience

Flash 8 has integrated templates for OEM. As new products come out, you can update through Flash to get latest interface template to build your Flash product for devices.

Flash Lite 2.0

-Built on F7, integrates AS2 and xml into swf.


Shape: simple shapes can be utilized or created from scratch for menu navigation or screensaver effects.
Text enhancement: create text msg interfaces with bold, italics, larger/smaller fonts etc.
Photo: gif, jpg, png with transparency support as well as integrated Flickr photo downloads and one can associate voice comments with photo.
Dynamic XML Date: news headlines or sports scores with links to more content.
Persistent Data: online gaming such as roulette etc.

Release in January. Update to authoring environment then as well.

Phones were demo'd. The best is a new phone in Korean market, 6x1x4 cm. Full Flash interface four button press to navigate. Full delivery: phone, video, camera, video camera, photo, text, makes my bed. Developed by iRiver.