Tag: adobe

Microsoft and Yahoo! (and Adobe)

The blogosphere will be all abuzz today about Microsoft's offer to acquire Yahoo! this morning. It will be interesting to watch people tally the pros and cons on this one. Here are my initial thoughts. Yahoo would provide Microsoft with valuable online properties in a number of major categories: Flickr for photo sharing, Yahoo Finance, … Continue reading Microsoft and Yahoo! (and Adobe) →

New Adobe Web Site

Just a quick note to point out that Adobe Systems rolled out a new version of their web site. This is the first major overhaul of the site since they implemented the Macromedia look and feel shortly following the acquisition.It's an interesting use of both AJAX and Flash to make the site more dynamic, while … Continue reading New Adobe Web Site →

USA Today Interview with New Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen

USA Today has an interview with new Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen which includes his view of how Adobe hopes to "marry the power of the desktop with the Web" with applications developed with Adobe's AIR. As a concrete illustration of the type of functionality an AIR app could provide, Narayen points to Apple's iTunes: Look … Continue reading USA Today Interview with New Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen →

Lynda Weinman: “To Understand Where Adobe is Going” Read Knowledge@Wharton

Pamela Pfiffner, author of Inside the Publishing Revolution: The Adobe Story, has a posting on the Peachpit Press blog covering the details of the recent Flashforward conference: "Flash Back and Flashforward." According to Pfiffner, Flashforward founder Lynda Weinman recommended two recent Knowledge@Wharton articles to the audience during her keynote speech: [D]uring her opening remarks, conference … Continue reading Lynda Weinman: “To Understand Where Adobe is Going” Read Knowledge@Wharton →