July 09, 2002
Random Media Flash Communication

Random Media is todays Macromedia Site Of The Day and its not hard to see why. It showcases some of the possibilities with the Flash Communication Server MX. The site allows you to navigate through a world of audio, text and images and also seems to have a time dimension of sort.

If you have a web cam or a microphone you can add to the mix with your own images and sounds, I found a lot of funny things on my trip through the site.

Posted by jarle at 11:53 PM
Having a good time with my new monitor :-)

171p_lg.jpgPretty perverted, huh?

The F.A.Porsche designed monitor from Samsung can be made to turn over on the side and let me browse the web at 1028x1280 - or work in Flash for example. :-) I think that is going to become my favorite position for it ;-)

Here's some pictures just to give you some insight into how my world looks like when browsing the web and working different applications right now:

fw.gif jdb-browse.gif fm-browse.gif

Posted by jarle at 09:31 PM | Comments (4)
Flash Communication Server MX released

Macromedia has released the Flash Communication Server MX and they already have up an impressive development center for the server. This new server from Macromedia sports multiway audio and video streaming and messaging, making it ideal to be in the center of collaboration systems and multimedia delivery. Macromedia has only released it for Windows so far, but there are versions for Linux and Sun in the lineup.

We have some screenshots up at Flashmagazine.com of the development part of the communication server, and there will be more articles made available about the server later today.

It seems to me by the launch of the new MX products from Macromedia that the merger with Allaire really did Macromedia and Allaire good - I am impressed by the amount of information they are making available about their products.

Before I forget it, you can read more about the Flash Communication Server on a number of other sites too:

Mike Chambers has some really good resource links. Expect him to post more useful pointers and information about the Flash Communication Server MX.

C|Net has an article titled "Macromedia gets chatty"

Infoworld - Macromedia unites multiple media types

eWeek: Macromedia Server Brings Life to Web Sites

And all the blogs are writing about it: Flazoom, PNut, and Quasimondo

Posted by jarle at 09:32 AM | Comments (1)