via Mark,

Adobe MAX is all about YOU the developer, so if there is one event to attend this year then this is it. You’ll get to meet with literally thousands of attendees and see sessions from the best and biggest in the industry. Last year was my first despite being an Adobe employee for over three years. Despite it being my second week on the job I did manage to squeeze into the Nokia session to get on stage

So this is your opportunity to shape the event for your needs. We want to hear about the kinds of sessions that you want to see, the people and companies that you would most like to hear from. You can even volunteer yourself for some stage time if you’re feeling brave!

follow this link for more info, and hope to see many of you at MAX this year!

matt

hi all,

I have setup a connect room which we will hopefully be broadcasting the presentations by mark doherty (see previous post) and the general meeting discussion live via the web, for those unable to attend or in other international MaD User groups.

Please sign up to the usergroup to recieve the link to the room

cheers

matt

Date : 29th Feb, 2008

Time : 7pm - 9pm

Venue : At the Adobe Regents Park office
12 Park Crescent,
London,
W1B 1PH,
United Kingdom

The next Uk Mobile and Development Usergroup meeting is being hosted by Mark Doherty & team at the Adobe Regents Park office in London, on the 29th of feb 2008, between 7 & 9pm.

This will give everyone a great opportunity to meet the Adobe EMEA team, and attend a number of presentations including:

• Flash Lite 3 / Flash Video
• Flash Cast - Eagle

There will also be the opportunity for open panel discussions, and Mark has kindly agreed to get some drinks in afterwards.

Also, Mark has invited members to contribute suggestions for other topics of interest they would like to discuss/see as a presentation. Please leave any suggestions as comments on this thread.

Looking forward to seeing as many as possible of you there

Matt

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Watch or listen to this podcast series aimed at creative professionals new to mobile, as Adobe host John Agger walks you through tutorials on mobile content creation. The Adobe Mobile Podcast series is created in partnership with Terry White’s Creative Suite Video podcast < http://creativesuitepodcast.com/> and includes the following episodes:

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The Boston MaD User Group is holding an eSeminar on December 13th at 5PM EST (check your local time).

Dale Rankine, CEO of Moket , will present Club Moket.

• Presenter, Dale Rankine, CEO of Moket
• The members of the Boston MaD User Group will also have the chance to win a copy of an Adobe Software package of the value of $2100.

Club Moket is a new direct-to-customer mobile sales portal featuring Flash Lite content. It is the retail channel for Moket and the popular Moket Content Network. Club Moket aims to provide compelling and creative Flash Lite content primarily to markets such as UK, Europe and South-East Asia, where customers have more open (and Flash Lite enabled) handsets (Nokia, Sony Ericsson) and flexible web-browsing capabilities.”

Dale Rankine is the CEO and founder of Moket, and will be demonstrating the portal as well as discussing the opportunities for Flash Lite designers and developers to sell through the channel. The Moket Content Network that feeds the Club Moket portal has been growing rapidly over the past months, and Dale will be able to share with you some feedback and observations on Flash Lite content in the market, and what designers and developers should be watching out for.

To receive the link to the room, please join the Boston MaD UG.

Matt

as of 4pm PST on friday 30th nov, the flash lite 3 developer edition player is available on Adobe Labs.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashlite3/

This now allows the Flashlite community as a whole to start actively creating and testing their own FL3 content.

The developer player provides the Flash Lite 3 Developer Edition for Nokia N95 (non-US 3G version) devices; however, technically it should work on any Nokia S60 3rd edition or later devices. Adobe has not certified Flash Lite 3 Developer Edition on any other Nokia S60 3rd edition devices and cannot guarantee that the player will work on them.

The developer edition has the following features & limitations

• no serial number required
• standalone content support only
• Nokia S60 3rd edition and newer devices supported
• Player loads the developer edition startup screen (as per 2.1 developer edition player) ( this will not be in place on OEM installed devices)

The first shipping devices with Flash Lite 3 pre-installed will be Nokia S60 models and will be available in Q1 2008.

Also there will be a discussion forum dedicated to FL3 Developer Edition:

FL3 developer edition forum

for more info, Bill Perry has blogged on his site regarding the release:

link here

Some great news from Leonardo about their Janus Symbian product:

Janus Symbian Lite is now completely free of charge. Yes, you heard this right! Janus Symbian Lite is now is completely free of charge and free of use (even for commercial projects!). Janus Symbian Lite won’t let you modify the source code of your sis file and won’t let you use any external Janus method, but all the other cutting edge features of Janus Symbian are there!

These are Key Features:

If Flash Lite is not detected on user’s cellphone, it shows an info with URL to download Flash Lite from Adobe’s website

Lets you embed external files (ie images, texts and sounds) to be deployed with your application

Lets you specify which Symbian 3rd edition capabilities you want to enable in your SIS file

Designed and built in order to be easily updated and future proof - more and more Janus Symbian methods are in the works!

Professional SIS Maker and SWF Launcher tool using the industry leading “Janus Engine”

Supports versions 1.1, 2.0 and 2.1 of Adobe Flash Lite Player

Auto sign SIS installer with provided and developer certificate

Lets you embed additional SIS file with yours that will be installed during the installation phase of your SIS (so you can embed the Flash Lite 2.1 player installer and have it installed for maximum compatibility!)

You can read more about the project here:
http://www.spaghettisort.com/janus/products-janus-symbian.html

Date : 5/12/07

Seminar outline:
- Flash Lite and C++ a brief introduction
- Flash Lite and external applications
- Integration between Flash Lite and C++
- Case Study: a Flash Lite chat based on Bluetooth and C++
- Rapid Application Development toolkit: KuneriLite
- Open discussion in the pub
Speakers: Vassilis Legakis and Giorgio Natili
Max participants: untill availability
All our seminars are free, but for each there is a limited number of places, so if you intend to participate please fill out this form.

Time: 18:30-20:30
Venue: Skills Matter
1 Sekforde Street
London EC1R 0BE

During the meeting will be introduced the “2007 Flash Lite game contest” sponsored by Playyoo. The sponsor will offer a beer to all the attendees in the open discussion session and a lot of gadget will be ruffled during the meeting.

As this will also be the first face to face meeting of the UK MaD , there will be a load of adobe giveways, and a raffle for an Adobe product.

Hope to see you all there.

matt