2011 Mobile Innovators Announced at Adobe Max 2011, LA

MobileInnovators.org announced that (7) leading Mobile Innovation organizations have been chosen as the 2011 “Mobile Innovators of the Year” for their support for the Web professional community. The award winners — a combination of software, hardware and technology companies were recognized by panel of industry professionals during the annual Adobe Max 2011 conference that took place October 2-4, 2011 in Los Angeles, CA.

Adobe MAX brings together top designers, developers and business minds in the industry to celebrate, explore and shape the future of digital experiences and stay at the forefront of the multi screen revolution. “Developing Web applications provides countless opportunities for Web professionals to monetize their work, a key mission for the association of Web professionals and we are pleased to recognize these Mobile Innovator Rock Stars” said, Bill Cullifer, Executive Director Webprofessionals.org and the MobileInnovators.org education initiative.

The 2011 “Mobile Innovators” at the Adobe MAX event were chosen by a committee comprised of representatives from publishing, Web design professional training, mobile application development, academia and not for profit professional association Webprofessionals.org.

The 2011 Mobile Innovators of the Year are:

* Adobe System Inc. for the acquisition of PhoneGap

* Barnes&Noble for their support for Mobile App Developers

* Sony for their $200,000 Mobile App Challenge

* Motorola for their support for Mobile App Developers

* LGAppsTV for their support for Mobile App Developers

* JamPot Technologies Ltd for their support for Mobile App Developers

* BlackBerry for their support for Mobile App Developers

Mobile Innovation, Cell phone and wireless laptop internet use have each grown more prevalent over the last year. According to Pew Research Center, nearly half of all adults (47%) go online with a laptop using a Wi-Fi connection or mobile broadband card (up from the 39% who did so as of April 2009) while 40% of adults use the internet, email or instant messaging on a mobile phone (up from the 32% of Americans who did this in 2009). This means that 59% of adults now access the internet wirelessly using a laptop or portable device.

Selection Committee

* Bret Peters, Partner/Vice President Fig Leaf Software

* Gary-Paul Prince, Artist and Marketing Manager Peachpit / Pearson Education

* Janine Warner, Author, Trainer and Web Designer DigitalFamily.com

* Mark DuBois, Professor Web Systems Program Manager Illinois Central College & Director of Education WebProfessionals.org

* Orralyn Vithyavuthi, Designer GrDesignoor.com

About WebProfessionals.org

WebProfessionals.org is a non-profit professional association dedicated to the support of individuals and organizations who create, manage or market web sites. WOW provides education as well as certification, technical, employment and member advantage services to thousands of aspiring and practicing web professionals and those that teach Web professional topics worldwide. http://webprofessionals.org .

About MobileInnovators.org

MobileInnovators.org is an online resource for Mobile Innovators and Mobile Application Developers providing daily news, podcast, interviews and hundreds of training videos for aspiring and practicing Mobile Applications Developers and those that teach. http://mobileinnovators.org

About Adobe MAX

Adobe MAX is a unique opportunity to connect with thousands of designers, developers, and business leaders as we shape the future of digital media together.

Discover how to realize the full potential of your content and applications. Find new opportunities presented by rich experiences across screens. Explore new methods for monetizing content. Learn about innovative technologies that enable designers and developers to work together more effectively

Adobe MAX 2011 Focuses on Tools for for Web Designers and Web Developers – Interviews, Video’s and Event Media Coverage

To get a perspective for what the first day of the Adobe MAX 2011 event will mean for Web professionals, I sat down with Mark DuBois, Professor Illinois Central College and WOW’s Director of Education.

In this two minute interview, Mark shares his thoughts on the value proposition of the event and what it will mean for Web professionals.

Additional Resources

I am also enclosing some of Mark’s notes and a video’s of the events keynote.

Video of the Opening Day

Initial review of yesterday’s keynote.

Today development experience.

Absolutely pivotal and important. Content must be interactive. Developers bring content to life.
Odapod, Fluid ? HTML and development

HTML5 app stores and on web. Both Flash and HTML are cross platform technologies. Too expensive to create separate solutions for
different endpoints.

HTML innovation surging.

Adobe betting on HTML5 ? important platform. Continuing to invest in Flash. Released Flash Player 11 and AIR 3.0

These show investment in Flash. Drive expressiveness. Bring what learned into HTML.

Partners ? Google, MS, Apple. jQuery, W3C ? code contributions to webkit and jQuery. Also creating tools like Edge.
Progress on HTML5 and Flash.

Mobile apps ? Ben Forta

Skills there to build native apps ? DW CS 5.5 with PhoneGap demo ? HTML, CSS, JS (including jQuery)
Building native .apk using PhoneGap.
Adobe acquiring PhoneGap
Andre Charland ? PhoneGap
Travelocity app demo
Orbium game using canvas element
Untapped ? social network for beer drinkers
PhoneGap build ? compile in cloud ? http://build.phonegap.com
Included in creative cloud description.
Flash based apps ? touch apps ? built in Flash ? great examples of what you can do.
Gaming ? in browser app ? Machinarium
Day app deployed on app store ? number one app. Being deployed on Droid ? no code changes at all
Business apps ? Johnson Controls
Social example ? USA Network ? 70% of tablet viewers are surfing web as watching show ? share experiences as watch show
Built in Flash and AIR ? build on one platform and push out to multiple. All about cost and time. Reach more devices.
AIR 3 ? captive runtime ? download runtime and install apps. Smaller app with shared runtime. iPhone ? embedded in app itself. Droid also
want ability to choose. Now a checkbox in build process.
Native extensions ? want to take advantage of what hardware manufacturers provide. Wrap AS class around native code.
Sony P tablet ? two screens ? use each screen differently.
Flash Builder 4.6 prerelease available
Targeting Windows Metro in future.
WWW ? deliver best tools for web development
Edge for animations.
Flash Player 11 ? next generation of web ? Paul Gubbay ? VP of engineering, web and design
So many technologies and frameworks ? where to get started.
Great browsers, great frameworks, great tools ? need all three
Tools ? Edge prototype last year. Web Standards. Got it out early and define feature set. Preview 1 on Aug. 1 ? 50,000 downloads.
150,000 downloads ? preview 3 of Adobe Edge available today. Mark Anders ? Adobe Fellow

Rain Interactive ? released game ? Run Kitty Run, the adventures of Timmy.
Frameworks ? jQuery and jQuery Mobile ? had team contributing to jQuery Mobile. Also working in DW
Theming model ? robust CSS. Visual tool ? Theme roller for jQuery Mobile.
Fireworks ? update pack for FW ? get control to icons used in jQuery mobile.
CSS Regions and CSS Exclusions discussed. Hidden costs pie chart demo.
IE 10 supports CSS regions
When can I use? Ian Ellison?Taylor at Google
CSS regions appealed to everyone. Obvious need. Pushed through in Chromium browser. Can use today.
Flash ? Pixel Bender in browser using CSS ? CSS shaders
CSS shaders studio ? just submitted to W3C
2D 3D graphics and animation ? Emmy Huang ? group product manager Adobe Gaming
Leverage GPU across devices.
Starling ? leverage low level API calls. Flash Professional (Reuben)
Create Sprite Sheets directly form within Flash

Mobile JavaScript – Interview with Christopher Schmitt

Mobile JavaScript – Interview with Christopher Schmitt, Heatvision.com
The Mobile web is growing eight times faster than the desktops and Smartphone sales will surpass PC sales in 2012 says Christopher Schmitt at Heatvision.com

In this eighteen minute interview with Christopher Schmitt, author, Web standards advocate, designer and principle at Heatvision.com, a small new media publishing and design firm from Austin, TX, Christopher shares his thoughts and perspectives on the mobile JavaScript frameworks, mobile design and mobile best practices.

We also discuss his thoughts on why Markup and Scripting is important for Web Designers, some of the takeaways from a upcoming HTML5 Cookbook he is collaborating on and a totally online Mobile JS Summit that he has planned complete with discounts for WOW members as well as a number of other events that he has planned.

I continue to be amazed and impressed with just how incredibly intelligent and down to earth Web professionals like Christopher Schmitt are and I’d like to give him, his co-authors and his collaborators on the following events for Web professionals. It’s a great time to be a Web pro and I’d highly recommend that you learn more about Christopher and his support for the Web professional community.

* Mobile JS Summit – http://mobilejssummit.com/
* Accessibility Summit – http://a11ysummit.com/
* UX Web Summit – http://uxwebsummit.com/

Discount code for Mobile JS Summit 20WOW (Good for 20% off, and good for all three events)

Future of Web Design 2011 Conference – Day 2 Overview and take aways with Abbey Tosic

As you may recall from previous podcast, Abbey Tosic participated in the Future of Web Design 2011 conference that took place in London 16th – 18th May 2011 and has graciously offered to share her thoughts and send back a few interviews of some of the more notable speakers. For today’s WebProfessionals.org podcast we’re pleased to be sharing the following interviews and links to the following speakers from Future of Web Design (FOWD) 2011 London.

* Abbey Tosic, FOWD Overview Day 2
* Ian Stewart, ThemeShaper.com talking about WordPress
* Josh Clark, Global Moxie talking about Mobile Design Strategy
* Sarah B Nelson, Hot Studios talking about improving collaboration, supporting creativity, and encouraging innovation

Special shout out Ian, Josh and Sarah for their time and insights. I encourage you to check out the videos, their bios links below to learn more about their writings and extended presentations. Super cool people with lots of great stuff to share for Web professionals interested in designing with WordPress, Mobile design strategies and improving collaboration strategies.

Abbey Tosic, Online Design & Usability lead at 3M Headquarters in St Paul, MN and blog, Dotcom Girls.

Ian Stewart, ThemeShaper.com
Ian Stewart is a Theme Wrangler for Automattic, the folks behind WordPress.com, and has had a hand in creating some of the most popular WordPress themes around. He’s super-passionate about beautiful design, semantic HTML, and making the web better with WordPress.

Josh Clark, Global Moxie
Josh Clark is a designer, developer, and author specializing in mobile design strategy and user experience. He’s author of the O’Reilly books “Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps” and “Best iPhone Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders.” Josh’s outfit Global Moxie offers consulting services and workshops to help creative companies build tapworthy mobile apps and effective websites.

Sarah B Nelson, Hot Studios
Sarah B. Nelson is the Principal of User Experience at Hot Studio. She has nearly 15 years of experience in interactive media, designing kiosks, mobile, and online experiences for clients in a variety of industries. Sarah has a particular passion for practice development, conducting research into methods for improving collaboration, supporting creativity, and encouraging innovation. Sarah brings a unique blend of creative vision and technical expertise to her work. Her research-focused approach to interaction design has produced successful results for her clients. At Hot, Sarah has worked with Palm, Nike, Gilt Groupe, Linden Lab, Zvents, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Aets

Adobe MAX Receives 2010 Mobile Innovators Award for Innovation – Event Breaks New Ground for Technology, Creative and Business professionals

WebProfessionals.org, the membership supported association for Web Professionals, and MobileInnovators.org, an online resource for Mobile Application Developers, announced today that Adobe MAX 2010 Los Angeles is the winner of WebProfessionals.org annual Mobile Innovators Award, recognizing the Adobe Corporation and its annual Max Conference, the leading event for technology and creative professionals for its leadership in using cutting-edge information technology and Rich Internet Applications (RIA) tools to drive mobile application development innovation, jobs and for improving the consumer user experience.

Mobile Innovation, Cell phone and wireless laptop internet use have each grown more prevalent over the last year. According to Pew Research Center, nearly half of all adults (47%) go online with a laptop using a Wi-Fi connection or mobile broadband card (up from the 39% who did so as of April 2009) while 40% of adults use the internet, email or instant messaging on a mobile phone (up from the 32% of Americans who did this in 2009). This means that 59% of adults now access the internet wirelessly using a laptop or cell phones

Adobe Max Keynote

“User expectations and experiences are evolving rapidly, and Adobe has long taken the lead in creating the tools and services to design for the future.” said Bill Cullifer, Executive Director WebProfessionals.org. “Adobe’s RIA product, Air 2.5 system for example will allow application developers to be able to design a single piece of code and then utilize it in multiple ways across a wide range of devices that delivers innovation that fuels jobs for Web professional’s and expands the user experience.”

“With the exponential growth of mobile use, companies are facing increasing demands from customers who want to connect anytime, any place and on any device,” said Brett Cortese, president of Universal Mind, an Abode Max show participant and four-time Max Award nominee. “Adobe MAX is the leading event for mobile application designers and developers, so it’s great to see both the show and Adobe recognized as the winner of the Mobile Innovators Award.”

About WebProfessionals.org

WebProfessionals.org is a non-profit professional association dedicated to the support of individuals and organizations who create, manage or market web sites. WOW provides education as well as certification, technical, employment and member advantage services to thousands of aspiring and practicing web professionals and those that teach Web professional topics worldwide. http://webprofessionals.org .

MobileInnovators.org

MobileInnovators.org is an online resource for Mobile Innovators and Mobile Application Developers providing daily news, podcast, interviews and hundreds of training videos for aspiring and practicing Mobile Applications Developers and those that teach. http://mobileinnovators.org

About Adobe MAX

MAX is a unique opportunity to connect with thousands of designers, developers, and business leaders as we shape the future of digital media together.

Discover how to realize the full potential of your content and applications. Find new opportunities presented by rich experiences across screens. Explore new methods for monetizing content. Learn about innovative technologies that enable designers and developers to work together more effectively.

Benefits of Adobe Air

For Developers

•Benefit from a consistent, flexible, and visual development environment for applications on multiple platforms and devices such as TVs, smartphones, smartbooks, tablets, netbooks, and PCs.
•Accelerate development with code reuse and an intuitive visual environment for multiplatform development.
•Create consistent and immersive applications that deliver expressive and interactive user experiences across multiple screens.

Businesses

Adobe AIR offers an exciting new way to engage customers with innovative, branded applications, without requiring changes to existing technology or processes. From conducting business transactions to managing music, Adobe AIR delivers applications that are easier, more powerful, and more fun to use.

Adobe MAX 2010 – Adobe Air and Mobile Apps: Interview with Joe Johnston, Senior user experience specialist, UniversalMind

Universal Mind just posted about their experience developing an app for the RIM PlayBook using the Adobe Air SDK and their announcement at Adobe MAX 2010 taking place this week in Los Angeles, CA.

In this six minute interview, I caught up with Joe to get his take on the project, his take on the Adobe MAX event and opportunities for Web professionals developing Mobile Applications with Adobe Air.

RIM PlayBook SDK Offers Smooth Development

According to the UniversalMind Blog, the team had the privilege to be one of the first companies to develop an app for Blackberry’s new tablet—the RIM Playbook. Here are some of our initial thoughts on developing in this environment:

The app we developed was a Fantasy Football application—the goal was for it to be both fun and easy to use. It was entirely built using Adobe Flash Builder and the BlackBerry SDK. The workflow allowed us to deploy a working tablet application in days with full touch and gesture interactions that you would expect in a tablet device.

The framework SDK is integrated into Flash Builder which made for a very familiar dev environment. Compiling the application and deploying it to the PlayBook Simulator is quick and easy with multiple ways to see your application in a working environment. Without a actual device in hand we relied on the Simulator to test all the interactions, so it was a key piece of the workflow.

We also reused several pieces of code, which made creating interactions even faster. The SDK controls made creating interactive lists a snap: all the kinetic interactions are built into the controls, like pulling on a list and getting the elastic snap that many users are familiar with. Integrating video is seamless with the built in video controls, which also allowed for customization. The framework also allows developers to create consistent applications using the array of controls that are built into the OS.

Since their SDK utilizes Adobe AIR, you can create tablet applications without the need to learn a new development languages. Taking existing AIR applications and deploying them to a tablet device couldn’t be easier.

With the BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK you can now take those engaging applications and deploy thing seamlessly onto a BlackBerry Playbook with minimal code changes. Integrating those applications into the powerful BlackBerry network of information and integration.

HTML5 vs. Adobe Flash: Where do you stand?

The controversy for the “hearts and minds” of Web professionals heats up as press reports reflect that Steve Jobs goes public with a statement that Adobe’s Flash software has fallen short as a mobile technology. At issue is the public debate between the companies over the program used to create online video. Clearly, the case for HTML5 vs. Adobe Flash is sure to intensify in the weeks and months to come.

The Story Line

Apple has “few joint interests” with Adobe, Mr. Jobs said in a post on Apple’s Web page Thursday, citing six reasons he doesn’t want Flash for mobile devices. He called the program closed and proprietary, saying the decision to bar it from Apple’s devices is based on technology, not business.

Apple’s efforts to convince programmers to adopt other ways to get video to work on Web sites threatens Flash’s dominance. San Jose, Calif.-based Adobe is fighting for the hearts and minds of Web-site developers, many of whom view Apple’s iPhone, iPod Touch and newly released iPad tablet as platforms they can’t ignore.

HTML5, a standard Apple uses instead of Flash, is a “completely open” technology, said Mr. Jobs. HTML5 lets Web developers create graphics and animations without relying on third-party browser plug-ins, such as Flash, he said.

“Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind,” Mr. Jobs said according to press reports.

Adobe highlighted the risks of exclusion from Apple’s iPhone and iPad devices for the first time in a regulatory filing this month, signalling the snub could hurt sales according t the report.

More than 75% of online videos run on Flash, and the software is installed on about 98% of personal computers connected to the Internet, according to Adobe. Flash also runs on more than 800 million mobile phones, manufactured by 19 of the top 20 handset makers — all except Apple.

Report: Internet, broadband, and cell phone statistics

Internet users tend to skew young, with a sharp drop-off in online activity among 65 and older.

The holiday season is upon us and its time to send in your wish list to Santa. The Droid Smart Phone is an ideal gift suggestion that’s bound to please the Web professional in all of us.

Droid Smart Phone Support Google

Droid is the first handset to sport the latest version of the Google (NasdaqGS:GOOG – News)-backed Android operating system, version 2.0. It costs $200 after a $100 rebate, with a two-year Verizon Wireless service contract. Besides Verizon stores, the phone will be sold at Best Buy (NYSE:BBY – News), Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT – News) and Costco (NasdaqGS:COST – News).

Avian Securities analyst Matthew Thornton estimates 800,000 Droid phones will be sold through Dec. 31. Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S – News)sold about 700,000 Palm (NasdaqGS:PALM – News) Pre handsets in the first three months of that smart phone’s release this summer, while Apple sold 1.1 million iPhones in its first three months, in 2007. “The Droid reviews have been overwhelmingly favorable,” Thornton said according to a news report in IBD last week.

Motorola (NYSE:MOT – News) needs a hit. Market tracker iSuppli says Motorola had a 5.4% share of the global market as of June 30, down from 22.5% three years ago.

“Droid is potentially a game changer for Motorola,” iSuppli analyst Tina Teng said in a statement.

Seven handset makers have licensed Android, including Samsung, LG Electronics, Sony Ericsson (NYSE:SNE – News) (NasdaqGS:ERIC – News) and HTC. Carriers providing service also include Sprint and T-Mobile.

Android’s share of the market for handset operating systems will rise to 9% in 2013 from 2.4% in the second quarter, forecasts iSuppli. Research firm Gartner, however, projects Android’s share will hit 14.5% by 2012, moving into second place behind only Nokia (NYSE:NOK – News)-led Symbian, surpassing Apple and Research In Motion’s (NasdaqGS:RIMM – News) BlackBerry. Android is open and free to all handset makers, while Apple and RIM keep a close hold on their operating systems.

Tim McLaughlin, president and founder of Siteworx, a Web site and application developer for computer and mobile platforms, has yet a different outlook. He says the smart-phone market will become a two-horse race between the iPhone and Android phones, with Android winning. “In the long run, Android will prevail,” he said. “Droid represents the first real competitor to iPhone.” according to last weeks IBD.

There’s a comparison with the PC and Mac battle, he says. The Microsoft Windows/Intel platform was essentially open and accumulated 90% of the market. Apple kept a close hold on its Macintosh platform, which gave it a much smaller — albeit loyal — following.

“Unless Apple changes its business model, the Android will prevail,” McLaughlin said according to the IBD.

I’m in Los Angeles, CA today participating in Adobe MAX 2009. For today’s podcast, I’d like to share with you the first few minutes of the Keynote with Shantanu Narayen, Adobe CEO as well as few of the big announcements.

The theme is clearly mobile Web. Here’s a summary of today’s highlights with a few links:

• Adobe Opens iPhone to Flash Developers
• Adobe Unveils First Full Flash Player for Mobile Devices and PCs
• RIM joins Open Screen Project
• Adobe and NVIDIA Deliver Rich Web Experiences on Netbooks and Mobile Devices
• Adobe and Qualcomm Bring Full Flash Player to Next-Generation for Mobile Devices
• Nokia and Adobe Bring New Flash Applications to Mobile Phones and Other Devices
• Adobe Unveils LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2
• Adobe Flash Platform Speeds Web Innovation Across Desktops and Devices
• Adobe ColdFusion 9 Now Available

A full transcript will follow in twenty for hours.

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