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Since, like many of you, I don’t have the time or luxury (yet) of blogging full time, I’m going to augment my blog postings with my shared Google Reader feed.

There’s a lot of directions a technology like this could go. On the optimistic side, you might occupy that “dead time” commuting to/from work by writing that novel you’ve been meaning to finish. Just think about the story on your walk to the train. On the other hand, would “The Man” be able to use this as an interrogation device? Could it be the sodium pentathol of the 21st century? What are your thoughts on this very cool tech?

Awesome… I want to drop some mad hot code with this guy.

Further proof that Adobe AIR is getting the attention it deserves as a serious development platform, Thawte is now offering code signing certificates for AIR applications. For additional information on digitally signing your AIR applications, check out this Adobe LiveDoc.

Adobe MAX 2007 kicked off in late September, and the announcements that have been coming out are nothing short of mind-blowing.  The next version of Flash, codenamed “Diesel” is going to have some unbelievably kick-ass features.  Here’s the short list:

• Realtime video object previews during design time
• Timeline animation without requiring keyframes & the addition of intelligent guide attachments
• Dynamic realtime seam carving (based on this technology)
• Z axis support in Flash player
• Inverse kinematics on objects and support for bones and rigging
• and an interpreter to support multiple languages (i.e. C/C++, Python, PHP, Ruby, etc.)

Check it out:

Flash "Next"

Flash on C/C++

On top of the Flash “Diesel” news, the Hydra-based Adobe Image Foundation, Adobe Thermo, AIR v1, and Flex 3 are all on the horizon.  Awesome stuff…

So here it is, my blog. Updates to come…