One of our stops in Europe last week was in Liège where Serge Jespers and I presented at a local RIA event. While there, community members Cyril Hanquez and Steven Peeters interviewed me briefly for their local usergroup. They have now posted that video interview online:

Interview with Ben Forta on March 9, 2010 in Liege, Belgium from CFUGBE on Vimeo.

Fellow Adobians Paul Gubbay (Sr. Director Engineering) and Lea Hickman (Sr. Director Product Management) from the Creative Suite, tools, and services teams, have launched the Design And Web blog to discuss product plans, technology prototypes, and even broader topics around industry trends.

Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch has posted his thoughts on Open Access to Content and Applications.

At MAX 2009, producer Jon Landau talked about the creation of the new hit movie Avatar. In this Adove TV segment he explains how Photoshop, InDesign, Lightroom, After Effects, Premier, and Connect, were all used in the creation of the movie.

When I was in Australia last month I had the opportunity to sit down with Chris Duckett to chat about ColdFusion, Flash, MAX announcements, and more, and the video is now online on the ZDNet Australia site. And it actually turned out pretty well (yes, I am somewhat surprised, this was basically moments after landing after flying in from the U.S., talk about hitting the ground running!).

With so many products, and with so many people asking first about Snow Leopard compatibility and now about support for Windows 7, we've created a new page to summarize this information. The Adobe product operating system compatibility page is your one stop shop for product OS compatibility information, complete with relevant links to specific product pages and FAQs.

Fellow Adobian Terry White (a rock star in the CS world) has created an iPhone app to teach you Creative Suite. Pretty slick!

Fig Leaf has published more than 12 hours of free hands-on tutorials for Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 on their training web site. These tutorials were built using Adobe Presenter and Adobe Captivate. Behind the scenes, Fig Leaf is hosting the tutorials on an Adobe Connect Server and a ColdFusion-based CMS which connects to it via the Adobe Connect Web Services API (to handle user account creation and authorization). The tutorial listing page pulls the list of content directly from the Connect server (again, using the web services API) and formats the response. This is a nice example of how all these products fit together into a compelling e-learning solution.

Title says it all. We've released a free iPhone client for Photoshop.com. Press release is here.

The Open Screen Project has launched a YouTube channel, appropriately named openscreenproject's Channel . Initial videos are of projects funded by the OSP Fund.

MAX 2009 is just days away, and I hope to see you all in Los Angeles. But, if you can't join in person, you can still take part via MAX Online.

On October 5 and 6, MAX Online will feature MAX keynotes, streamed live, highlighting the newest and most exciting developments in the world of technology. Join us 10 minutes early and participate in the backstage behind the scenes action. And then check back each day by 8 P.M. PST, from October 5 to 7, to see the top session of the day from each track: Design, Develop, and Envision. You'll be able to view these sessions on demand on MAX Online and join the buzz by participating in the extended Twitter conversation.

The new and greatly improved Adobe Cookbooks is now online. New features include:

• Many more products/technologies
• Improved navigation and search
• Recipe requests - for developers who can't find the code sample they are looking for
• Related recipes - that appear in a side bar of all recipe pages
• Cookbook Explorer - a visual display of top cookbook recipes and contributors
• New contributor recognition features - profile pics, links to blogs, links to community profiles

Liz Frederick, everyone's favorite CFUnited host and coordinator, has announced that she is joining the Adobe community team. Welcome aboard Liz, we're glad to have you!

A revamp of Adobe TV went live today. The UI is much cleaner, searching is imporoved, deep linking is better ...

But, best of all, the new Adobe TV (launched on 9/9/9) is one of the first public sites powered by the soon-to-be-released ColdFusion 9!

The Adobe Affiliate Program lets owners of web sites and blogs recommend Adobe software, and make up to 8% on referrals. Lots more details in the program FAQ.

Adobe is looking for ColdFusion users with minimal Flex experience to take part in a research study. You'll need to be available for 2 hours on April 2nd in our San Francisco office, and you'll get paid $150 for the session. If interested, please fill in this survey.

Ok, I'll confess, I don't use Twitter. Really. I just don't get the whole Twitter thing. But, many do. Very many. And fellow Adobe platform evangelist, Serge Jespers, has compiled an impressive list of Adobe folks on Twitter.

I love Fireworks. I've recently started to use Photoshop for some projects. But for day to day use, for resizing pictures or adding drop shadows or doing quick crops or batch resizing ... Fireworks is so quick and clean and simple.

But what about you? Do you use Fireworks, and if yes, how? Where does it fit in your workflow?

Don't answer the question here. Doug Winnie (aka Agent Doug), Adobe's Group Product Manager for Workflow, wants your input over on his blog.

No, that's no a typo, Adobe Hair it is.

Adobe and SitePen have teamed up to create Dojo Extensions for Adobe AIR to make it easier to create rich desktop apps using the Dojo Toolkit and Adobe AIR. More info posted on the SitePen blog.

The Adobe AIR team now has their own official team blog.

NVIDIA Quadro CX is a cutting edge graphics card and accelerator, and has been built specifically for Adobe Creative Suite 4. The specs are pretty impressive, and the darned thing looks so cool, too!

Day 2 of the Adobe RIA Developer Summit here in Bangalore is about to start. Yesterday was pretty incredible. A crowd of close to 400 packed the hall from 9am until after 6pm, and listened to keynotes and sessions in two tracks. Michele Turner and I presented the opening keynote, and I presented an afternoon session on Flex data connectivity, talking about HTTP, Web Services, Flash Remoting, Messaging, and Data Services. Other sessions have covered everything from getting started with Flex to best practices to the Flex event model to creating components to working with video and more. The audience here is highly technical, and the questions and feedback have been constant and relevant and somewhat intense. Silicon India posted a story yesterday.

Government has long been a critical customer segment for us, for all products and for ColdFusion specifically. So I'm pleased to see that the Adobe Government Team has launched a new blog - Adobe in Government.

BOFs (Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions) are informal MAX get togethers, a chance to meet, chat, share, and learn in a less structured and highly interactive environment. We host dozens of BOFs each year, from the ever popular "Meet The Team" sessions, to technical in depth chats on highly specific subjects, to brainstorming sessions around all sorts of technologies, and much more. And once again, we are inviting you to suggest BOF topics. Here's the form.