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I just heard about a site called TweetStats which gives you a pretty detailed breakdown of your Twitter habits. The combination of interesting features and the fact that they’re using Flash charts was well worth a post. You can see my stats here. I sent 322 Tweets in March of last year but I’ve since […]

I cherish the simplicity of a clean workspace on my computer. My wallpaper is a simple black. Almost.
One of the simple joys of parenthood has been the rediscovery of the Dr. Seuss books I read as a kid, plus a few I wasn’t familiar with. Everytime we read Dr. Seuss I come away with a […]

A lot has been made about how MacWorld 2008 was a disappointment. Uninformed reporters and analysts who look only to wall street as an indicator of the show’s success were quick to point out the decline in Apple stock following the show, but let’s not be stupid here. Not only is the old […]

We’ve had a lot of great companies using Flash and Flex present at DEMO and DEMOfall in the past including EyeJot and Matchmine. We even presented AIR at last years DEMO and showed off the eBay application. I’ve been getting emails this year about companies who are building applications with Flex and/or AIR and showing […]

If you read (or watch) this and follow it up with this, you may infer, like I did, that it won’t be long before robots are telling you “it was good for me, too.”

Leo Laporte and a few others are writing a collaborative story via twitter called 140Novel. They are taking turns adding to the story within the 140 character limit that Twitter imposes on them.
Who knows if it will be a good story? I am more interested in watching how creativity can be stirred within a collaborative […]

Seattle Startup Weekend starts tomorrow in Seattle and we’re sponsoring it at the Adobe office in Fremont. According to the O’Reilly blog they’re looking for designers. Luckily we have a lot of our designers in the Adobe community so those of you in Seattle who might be interested should ping Hans at shoestringventures dot com.
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Computerworld has a pretty good article up about the Nasdaq AIR application that they’ll be rolling out when we release AIR. Having played with versions of it, I can tell you that it’s pretty cool and I’m looking forward to the ability to demo it.
Also, one of the big questions that I’ve been asked on […]

Ethan Eismann, the experience designer on the Thermo team is blogging over at eismann-sf.com. Ethan is a really, really smart guy when it comes to interface design and creating user experiences with rich Internet applications. He’s part of our XD team at Adobe and he’s putting all of that knowledge into Thermo which is a […]

Andy Ihnatko reviews Scrivener in his weekly technology column today: Scrivener is in the write place. I’m already on the record stating that Scrivener is an app I wish I was cool enough to use. Andy Ihnatko’s column stirs my interest and notches me one more step toward coolness.
One thing I can say about Scrivener…it […]