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If you’re looking for a copy of the Mobile Monday Boston, OZMAD, Boston Adobe Mobile User Group or New Media BC/UBC Magic presentation “Creating ‘Casual’ Games, Content and Applications for the (Mobile) Long Tail”—look no further. We finally have a PDF version available for download (500k)!
Thanks for being patient. We’ve been absolutely swamped lately [...]

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An informative post by Chetan Sharma in Seattle yesterday. He offers a round-up of last week’s Mobile Gaming Conference and brings up a few points that I feel are specifically relevant to Flash Lite developers.
Missing the big picture – Except for some of the seasoned industry veterans like Daishiro Okada (Square Enix), [...]

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I’m pleased to announce that I/Yiibu will be speaking in Boston next week at Mobile Monday Boston (July 10th) as well as the Boston Adobe Mobile User Group (July 11th ) .
The presentation (which i’m still writing) is (somewhat loosely) titled “Creating Casual Handset Aps for the Long Tail” and will discuss content and user [...]

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This is probably one of those totally geeky things to worry about but what exactly do we call a directional key-press on a handset?
So you have your typical navi-pad—except not all navi-pads are typical and not all are actually ‘pads.’
My Nokia 6600 has a little 5-way (left/right/up/down + click) joystick, as does my E60. [...]

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Adobe is graciously offering free ‘Flash Lite 1.1 Certified Instructor’ training in San Jose at the end of the month. Bryan and I will be attending so if anyone else is coming and is interested in getting together one evening (or can recommend a good Indian restaurant in the area) do give us a shout.

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I read an interesting white paper from TechSmith entitled UX 2.0: Any User, Any Time, Any Channel.
The premise was this: Web 2.0 is allowing users to create their own experiences. They can use APIs (and API-based UIs and services) to choose what they see and interact with, or mix and mash it to create [...]

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I’ve read a few posts lately that talk about Flash Lite as a killer marketing tool on mobile devices. The most often noted reasons are:

ease and speed of development and testing,
the rich UI and design capabilities
the ubiquity of the platform (ubiquity’s is not here yet, but it finally seems to be well on its way)

I [...]

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So i’ve noticed a strange thing about mobile emulators. The added context is great but sometimes it’s just not enough. Then again—sometimes it’s too much…
Mobile emulator 1 (two weeks ago)

How it looked: Flash Lite application (swf) embedded on a web page directly a background image of a Nokia 6630. So to the user, it looks [...]

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