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- “In his book ‘Showtime,’ Pat Riley unveiled ‘the disease of more’ and argued that ‘success is often the first step toward disaster.’ According to Riley, after the 1980 Lakers won, everyone shifted into a more selfish mode. They had sublimated their respective games to win as a group; now they wanted to reap the rewards as individuals, even if those rewards meant having to spend way too much time at Jack Nicholson’s house. Everyone wanted more money, playing time and recognition. Eventually they lost perspective and stopped doing the little things that make teams win and keep winning, eventually imploding in the first round of the postseason. So much for defending the title.”
- 15 unfortunately placed ads
- Context changes everything. (Kinda NSFW?)
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- “It is very plausible that Adobe can have (less powerful) online versions of its most popular software aimed at the consumer market within 10 years, but I think it will be a long time before professional users are comfortable using completely online applications for critical graphic, video, animation, and programming work. Matching the speed and complexity of Adobe’s offline applications online is more than 10 years away, in my opinion.”
- Alan Cooper on design engineering
- “Software builders struggle to integrate design into their process for two basic causes: 1) programmers have never learned to follow a design, and 2) their day-to-day responsibilities forbid them from doing so. I also believe that these reasons can be understood and vanquished.”
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- “We augmented the Chemicals’ touring set with a constellation of powerful lights around the square, and created a set of generative, realtime graphics for the show finale.”
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6 comments so far
RF 29 Oct 07
Re: Can Adobe really shift to web apps?
If they’re serious about it. In 10 years, Web technologies will be better. (Remember the Web in 1997?) And Adobe is in a rare position because they can make Web technologies better, by improving Flash.
To give you a taste, Microsoft, of all companies, is planning some cool stuff for Silverlight 1.1. They’ll package a basic version of the .NET Framework with it - even on the Mac - so that Web developers can write JIT -compiled scripts that execute faster than JavaScript without cross-browser incompatibilities.
Microsoft’s effort may or may not help us out. But if we’re lucky, this is a direction that other companies are headed as well.
Seth 29 Oct 07
The thing about most of those “misplaced” ads is they are Google ads which tries to read the content or “keywords” in the page and find a relevant ad. Some of them were funny, but most were just poor attempts and showed the flaws in how the googlebot reads the content.
Seth 29 Oct 07
...as for the Adobe deal I think even if they put an online version of Photoshop and Illustrator that was capable of making Blending, Text, and basic illustrations it would be worth having online. I know speed is a factor but being able to make a text change to a graphic before it goes to print when you’re remote and on a computer that doesn’t have Photoshop, say at a Hotel or friends apartment it would be very beneficial.
I could also see some really cool things with multiple users working on one file and creating some really cool designs in real time…imagine Layers Tennis like that.
Rob Sherman 29 Oct 07
I went to the Adobe MAX conference in Chicago and what impressed me at the keynote presentation on the ‘online’ subject was that they already had a working version of a premiere express (type) application online for video editing. That looked like it was built entirely in Flex.
What I gather out of this was that it was not meant to be a replacement to an offline product. Just the opposite, it was geared to be simple, not overloaded with features and for what you guys like as the Fortune 5000 market of home video users.
I saw it as a very effective pre-sales tool to offline software with more features or abilities as a user is more comfortable with their editing skills and needs.
Then you have to think about their AIR sdk product, their offline desktop runtime environment. Take the online app offline and still continue to use it. I think Adobe already has the framework to do the job and just needs to put the applications in place.
They’ll be doing it next year.. not in 10 years..
Tory 30 Oct 07
The misplaced ads link was hilarious. Thanks for sharing that.
Angela 31 Oct 07
It’s so true. Once a company makes alot of money, it tends to forget all the elements that came together to make it successful in the first place.
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