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Fellow Adobe evangelist Andy Trice highlights some well known apps and organizations powered by PhoneGap (and Apache Cordova).

We just announced Adobe Flash Player Premium Features for Gaming, and posted a FAQ which explains more.

At the beginning of March, the Adobe Web Platform team hosted a 3 day internal WebKit hackathon, which focused on prototyping new features, fixing bugs and adding tests. Multiple product teams participated and delved into all sorts of WebKit feature areas. Check out the Adobe WebKit Hackathon Summary

Brian Leroux explains the difference between PhoneGap and Apache Cordova in his new post PhoneGap, Cordova, and what's in a name?

Tell On3 why you, or someone you know, is the MVP of the Apache Flex project, and should win one of two full 360Flex passes based on their contributions.

"Smartphones and tablets are everywhere. If you need to reach your customers or employees on these devices, now's the time to start developing mobile apps. We provide essential information to help you get started, including development basics for Apple iOS, Google Android, RIM BlackBerry and Microsoft Windows. We also look at the pros and cons of cross-platform development and discuss how to build secure apps from the get-go."

Thus starts InformationWeek Reports' new report on Mobile App Development, for which I was interviewed, and which includes coverage of building apps with Flash/AIR and PhoneGap.

Fellow evangelist Andy Trice has written a great article explaining how to get started building Android apps with Eclipse and PhoneGap.

impress.js is a stunningly impressive framework for building web browser based presentations. And fellow evangelist Harish Sivaramakrishnan has posted a preview of Impressionist, his visual editor for impress.js.

whichElement? (created by fellow Adobe evangelists Terry Ryan and Ray Camden) is trying trying to answer that age old question: "Should that be a div, a span, or something else?" Terry has posted an intriguing read on how the site implements search, without using an app server.

One this week:

• Red Hand, LLC (Washington, DC) is looking for a ColdFusion developer. Requirements include experience with ColdFusion 8 or higher (including server management), and experience with SQL and relational database design. Details posted online.

Fellow Adobe evangelist Tom Krcha visited Rovio and got to hang out with the team that worked on Angry Birds for Facebook. He has posted his interview with Ville Koskela of Rovio, who reveals some of the backstage tricks the team at Rovio used to build the Flash based Facebook game.

Mark Anders introduces Edge Preview 5 in this Adobe TV video:

Adobe Edge preview 5 is now available. This new release introduces significant improvements to speed up the animation creation process, new on-stage tools, as well as publishing and optimization features for older browsers and lighter code output.

Adobe Shadow is a new inspection and preview tool that allows mobile web developers and designers to work faster and more efficiently by streamlining the preview process, making it easier to create and optimize content for mobile devices. Shadow allows device pairing, synchronized browsing and refreshing in sync with your computer, and remote inspection and debugging so you can see HTML/CSS/JavaScript changes instantly on your device. Shadow is now on Adobe Labs, and the Shadow team is also blogging.

Flash and gaming go hand-in-hand, and have done so for a decade and a half. Hot on the heels of the release of support for Stage 3D and GPU use, the Flash Player team is hard at work on new features specifically targeted for game development. With all of this gaming focus, the time was right to launch a new dedicated Adobe gaming site. Enjoy!

Ok, so I am NOT a creative pro (shocking, I know). But still, fun to hear how After Effects and Premier helped bring Oscar winning Hugo to life.

McPheters and Company has released the iMonitor List of Best Magazine Apps for iPad, and 13 of the 19 are built using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite.

As the title says, courtesy of Hostek.com.

Flash Pro remains the best tool for creating web based expressive interactive content. But, especially on mobile devices, there is real (and growing) need for a browser only web standards solution to animation and expressive content creation. In addition to projects like Edge, we've also got several other tricks up our development sleeves, including work in the ability to export from Flash Pro to HTML as introduced last week at FITC.