Flex 3 Cookbook Cook-Off

06/02/2008 04:38 pm by EverythingFlex in Announcements

OK, fellow Flexers. Time to start being nice to me This summer I will be a judge in the new Flex 3 Cookbook Cook-Off. Here are the details: This summer, O’Reilly Media announces the creation of the Flex 3 Cookbook Cook-Off to celebrate the recent publication of Flex 3 Cookbook: Code-Recipes, Tips, and Tricks [...]

Acrobat.com, It’s all coming together

06/02/2008 11:31 am by EverythingFlex in Announcements

With the release of the new Acrobat.com, we are finally starting to see Adobe’s overall plan for their suite of online applications. This new portal utilizes previous tools like Adobe Buzzword, Adobe Share, and Adobe Connect (formally Breeze) through a new interface that brings them together under a unified Adobe user name and password. In [...]

MAX is up

05/30/2008 10:49 pm by EverythingFlex in Announcements

Registration for MAX is now live. Get yourself registered at http://max.adobe.com.

Flash Player 10 Public Beta

05/15/2008 06:05 am by EverythingFlex in Announcements

Flash Player 10 public beta is now publicly available for download. This next generation player has added some outstanding new features. Many of these new features were first demonstrated at MAX 2007 in Chicago last year. These include a new 3D API, new text engine, Adobe Pixel Bender effects, improved drawing API, [...]

BLITZ gets a Silver Pencil at One Show Interactive

05/14/2008 12:59 am in Announcements

Imagine our excitement when we were informed we’d be getting a coveted One Show Pencil at this year’s One Show Interactive ceremony. We were kept in suspense for a couple of weeks until we discovered on May 9 that the Adobe Creativity Conducted Flash Interactive Wall received a SILVER Pencil! Sadly, we had to leave New York without [...]

Duanes World Show 1!

05/08/2008 08:41 pm by EverythingFlex in Announcements

The one and only Duane Nickullhas a new series called Duane’s World showing on his blog under the Adobe TV family. The first show is up now which includes an interview with Andre Charland from Nitobi and is an excellent review of rich application technology and web data transfer protocols (web services). It also includes a [...]

A Great Way to Monetize your Blog

05/02/2008 02:45 pm by EverythingFlex in Announcements

I can’t remember who turned me on to Text-Link-Ads but I have to say that I am very impressed with this company. My revenue from them has been steadily increasing over the 6 months or so that I have been using them for text based ads on this site. With Text-Link-Ads I make 10 times [...]

Adobe Open Screen, where the hell is Apple?

05/01/2008 04:11 pm by EverythingFlex in Announcements

I am really excited about the announcement of the new Open Screen project from Adobe, but again there is no sign of Apple. The Open Screen Project is supported by technology leaders, including Adobe, ARM, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics Inc., Marvell, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Verizon [...]

Project ion+

04/24/2008 07:25 pm by EverythingFlex in Announcements

Last year at Max I met with some of the project team for the Adobe ion+ search project. I was shown a very cool new search engine that Adobe was developing to parse out information from a multitude of sources including community sites, blogs, help docs, etc. The official goal of the project is [...]

BLITZ deconstructs Adobe “Creativity Conducted” interactive installation and shares insight on business panel at FITC Toronto 2008, April 19-22

03/29/2008 12:06 am by BLITZ Labs, the BLITZ Agency Blog in Announcements

We at BLITZ know that Patrick Matte and Ivan Todorov are interesting people, and apparently the folks at FITC think so too. Both join a list of some of the most interesting and engaging presenters from around the world at FITC Toronto on April 19-22. Patrick’s session on Monday, April 21, “Creativity Conducted - Wii [...]

Great day for RIA and Flex

03/27/2008 05:32 pm by EverythingFlex in Announcements

Wow what a great day for RIA and Flex. First PhotoShop Express launches their public beta and now SlideRocket. For those who don’t know. SlideRocket is a web application that provides everything you need to design professional quality presentations, manage and share libraries of slides and assets, and to deliver presentations in person or remotely [...]

BLITZ is a charter member of Society of Digital Agencies (SoDA)

03/12/2008 02:31 am by BLITZ Labs, the BLITZ Agency Blog in Announcements

The time has come. An official society has been created to define the standards and best practices of digital advertising. As demands for our services continue to increase among marketers and advertisers, industry challenges and opportunities will grow along with that. 18 leading agencies from around the world, including BLITZ, have joined to form SoDA, [...]

BLITZ launches Princess Cruises “Greatest Romantic” video submission contest

02/16/2008 04:32 am by BLITZ Labs, the BLITZ Agency Blog in Announcements

For Princess Cruises and Valentine’s Day BLITZ built a contest that embraces the theme of romance. The Search for the Greatest Romantic is a video submission contest allowing users to share their story and state their case for why they, or their nominee, should be voted as the Greatest Romantic to win a free cruise. The contest [...]

Send Love with Isaac Hayes mobile campaign for Sprint launched by BLITZ and Goodby, Silverstein & Partners

02/13/2008 10:18 pm by BLITZ Labs, the BLITZ Agency Blog in Announcements

With Valentines Day in the air, you can bet many will be sending text messages and making calls to their loved ones. The fun and unique mobile campaign Tools For Love for Sprint promotes how people can use their phones on this special day to send a really romantic message. BLITZ was engaged to help [...]

BLITZ Featured In Adobe Ad Campaigns

02/05/2008 08:03 pm by BLITZ Labs, the BLITZ Agency Blog in Announcements

Last fall, Adobe invited BLITZ to participate in a couple of print ad campaigns. Of course, we couldn’t turn the offer down. The first project featured us in their “Customer Success Story” campaign. The article highlighted two of our projects: Geoterra and Pop 5, and the Adobe products that were used to help us successfully accomplish the [...]

Site is being updated!

02/05/2008 03:57 am by FlashGuru Consulting in Announcements

Sorry for the mess people, im re-jiggerising things around and getting the first magazine article together. It turns out wordpress doesn’t like to have two seperate instances running on the same server, using the same database, in seperate folders (it gets seriously confused), also why cant i rename any of the standard wordpress files? i [...]

Changes are coming!

01/31/2008 10:15 pm by FlashGuru Consulting in Announcements

The past couple of months ive been stacked up with work, working on some fun projects for a change. Ive been doing alot of PaperVision3D and alot of Data Visualization, it seems every client is now finding some use for a 3d plane with video projected onto it. I really hope we don’t start to [...]

Ken Martin contributes to AIGA Visionary Design Panel for the Designer of 2015 initiative

12/01/2007 12:02 am by BLITZ Labs, the BLITZ Agency Blog in Announcements

Earlier this year, AIGA (a professional association for design) teamed up with Adobe to recruit and create a panel of design experts. Among the council of thought leaders and influencers was BLITZ Chief Creative Officer, Ken Martin. Following is a brief interview with Ken on his experience and thoughts about the panel. For more information [...]

BLITZ joins Microsoft’s Mercury Agency Professional Program

11/28/2007 08:43 pm by BLITZ Labs, the BLITZ Agency Blog in Announcements

BLITZ was recently welcomed into Microsoft’s new Mercury Agency Professional Program. We’re excited about the opportunity. This global community, made up of agencies sponsored by Microsoft, will work together to help generate a better design experience with new, user-centric tools from Microsoft. Being a part of this entity will offer us access to the Microsoft [...]

BLITZ competes in PhizzPop Design Challenge

11/21/2007 09:16 pm by BLITZ Labs, the BLITZ Agency Blog in Announcements

It’s described as the challenge that “pits top interactive, Web and design agencies against one another to push the limits of technology and creativity in a battle royale.” It is PhizzPop’s Design Challenge. And how could we not register for such a competition? A “Mad Max” for design? Hell yes, count us in! For those unfamiliar [...]

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