Future of Mobile: Flash Lite

I was in London for the fantastic Future of Mobile event earlier this week organised by Carsonified and Dominic Travers.

Due to the amount covered I will split up posts, so the first will concentrate on Flash Lite.

One of the interesting talks, especially from my perspective was from Matt Millar from Adobe as he spoke about the Flash Lite distributable and the Open Screen Project. Although he mentioned a few new things, he was quite restrained compared to the details that were being announced co-currently at the Adobe MAX conference in San Francisco. There word was finally spread about Adobe's plans to enable to spread of Flash Lite enabled devices through the distributable version of the FL3.1 version as well as the App Zone. Matt did talk briefly about their plans to release the full Flash Player 10 for mobile devices in the near future, which will bring the two versions into sync for the first time, which will probably mean future releases will be distributed simultaneously. Along with the released news of an Android version that means market potential will probably dwarf the earlier prediction of 1 billion Flash Lite devices by 2010. The Flash Lite content didn’t stop there, as yours truly gave a workshop on the subject on the second day of the event and gave a half day guide to the delegates, which I hope they found useful.

More to come shortly...

Busy Networking

Something I've been keen to do recently is to build on my networking time and make more time to visit Newcastle and London more often.

The start of this was a Guardian event a couple of weeks ago where Jemima Kiss paid a visit to the area to find out about all things digital. I had a chance to chat with her and the team, the result of which is a clip on her weekly podcast.

You can listen to it here, and my little portion is right at the end 19:50 in.

In addition to this I've also been busy in London, with visits to both Orange and the BBC. I was asked to visit the BBC to talk about all things Flash Lite with Jason DaPonte and his team there. It was a great chance to meet the great team there and hear about the developments within the BBC.

At Orange I had positive meetings with their aggregators, Player X and AMS so hope to see some of Fluid Pixel's Flash Lite content on a network near you soon.

With a visit back down to London for the Symbian Smartphone Show and the largest ever Adobe UK Flash Lite User Group meeting and at least 2 more visits to Newcastle planned in the next two weeks - rather than slowing things down the recession is having the opposite effect!