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My 2 cents about that Adobe and Apple thing

As all the world is not necessarily  a flash specialist^^, let’s start by a little resume of the situation.

Apple released the iPhone in 2007, and the first reaction of Adobe was of course to say “hey let’s run Flash on it”. Then months and months of discussions later, no arrangement could be found. Flash was and is still simply not compatible with the business model of the iPhone (some people may object on that, but it’s obviously not a technical reason anymore). After that, Adobe planned to build an exporter for Flash, in order to compile proper native iPhone apps. The statu quo lasted until a few days ago when Apple changed the iPhone’s SDK terms and conditions to forbid the use of cross-compilers. Which means: no Flash apps, even if they are automatically converted to Objective-C. Flash is not the only one concerned, Unity3D and Mono generated applications could be banned from the App Store too.

… So today was quite intense about Flash and the iphone (/ipad) all over the interweb, due to the release of the new Creative Suite 5 by Adobe. The peak was reached when an Adobe evangelist, Lee Brimelow, wrote “Go screw yourself Apple”. This is of course  not the official press release from Adobe, but still, that’s kind of hardcore for the software industry.

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Designing for social traction

A very nice slideshow on how to use the social networks leverage in softwares and websites. Well the basics at least.

View more documents from Joshua Porter.

Waaaazaaa 2008: Go, Obama, go !

Via suchablog.

Hu Jintao, your new facebook pal ?

Pooooooke !! But be carefull this time : your new buddy is the leader of the most populated country in the world, which is also the first economic power and the last communist regime on the planet (with notable exceptions such as North Korea and Cuba…).

My first advice would be : don’t write too much on his funwall.


Hu Jintao (left) and (facebook ?) pal Kim-Jong Il

The facebook profile :

Via ABC news

If you want to add even more evil leaders, I strongly recommands you to poke Nicolas Sarkozy here, or Silvio Berlusconi here here. Oh and you can already add the next Dark Vador himself, aka John McCain, here. I didn’t find Vladimir Putin’s account, but does he really need that ?

Microsoft’s marketing genious strikes again

According to various sources, this is an internal ‘motivation’ video to boost Vista’s sales.

Via Engadget

UPDATE : as I was excepting, this video is a ‘spoof‘. ‘We at Microsoft have a quite a few laughs with that video’, yeah sure, dork.

Viva la revolucion – Leclerc et les medicaments

Les médicaments Leclerc, 25 pour cent moins cher
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L’enseigne des Supermarché Leclerc lance ce week-end une campagne publicitaire à la télévision, pour “demander que les médicaments non remboursés soient vendus à prix Leclerc”. La publicite avait recu un avis defavorable du BVP, mais a ete autorisee par le CSA. Du coup elle sera effectivement diffusee sur TF1 et M6.

Leclerc, c’est la chienlit 2.0, les vrais hippies des temps modernes. Allez voir dans les supermarches, tous les employes ont un t-shirt a l’effigie du Che, on y joue du djembe en prenant du LSD. Allez chez leclerc, vous verrez, c’est le pays de l’amour.

Ami francais, tu as montre ton sens du discernement en votant sarko. Pour que le bonheur universel arrive enfin, rejoins tes amis de Leclerc et bats toi pour des medicaments moins chers. C’est la lutteeeuu finaleeuuu …

Everybody needs to eat

If they could add third world after that, it would be perfect.

Via Blogs & IE

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