Adobe Feeds is up and running, replacing MXNA, and running on newer faster servers running ColdFusion 8.0.1. But more importantly, some significant code changes were made to get rid of lots of the problem code - code which was written for tens of feeds as opposed to close to two thousand. There are still more optimizations to come, but for now ... remember the new URL, update your RSS feeds, and ... enjoy!

We just announced the Open Screen Project which will be working to enable a consistent runtime environment, starting with the Flash Player, and in the future AIR, to remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and applications across desktops and consumer devices, including phones, mobile internet devices, and set top boxes, and more. The Open Screen Project is also supported by ARM, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics Inc., Marvell, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Verizon Wireless, and leading content providers, including BBC, MTV Networks, and NBC Universal.

Yesterday we quietly rolled out two important enhancements to the Adobe Developer Center.

The first change is community powered search (you'll see a new search box on the upper right side of the page), which basically means that searches now includes content from a wider array of sources, including community sources like relevant blogs. The second change is that logged in users can now post comments on articles, these comments are posted live immediately, but are also moderated (and will be scrubbed as needed).

While these new features are tested and tweaked they'll only be available in the Flex Developer Center. But we'll add these to additional ADC sections in the future.

Adobe TV has launched. We'll be posting new content regularly (I actually recorded 3 videos yesterday which will be going live in a month or so).

The Share team has posted details about updates just released in version 1.3.5 of the Share service, including details of some of the new features and offerings being made available.

Dr. Dobb's has announced the winners of the 18th annual Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards, and ColdFusion 8 won in the Web Development category! Yeah! Other Adobe winners are Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite (Productivity Winner in Enterprise Tools category), Adobe Device Central CS3 (Productivity Winner in Mobile Development Tools category), and Adobe Captivate 3 (Productivity Winner in Utilities category).

The Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) has started a blog to post security related information pertaining to Adobe products and technologies.

Tom Jordahl has announced that he'll be presenting a Connect session tomorrow on BlazeDS to The Online ColdFusion Meetup Group. He'll cover exactly what you get in BlazeDS and how it relates to LiveCycle Data Services, and will detail some of the reasons why you might want to use these server technologies. He will also explain how ColdFusion developers can take advantage of BlazeDS in their applications.

We've been talking about the open sourcing of the Flex SDK for a while, and now you can check it all out online at the new Adobe Open Source Flex SDK wiki.

The Codie Awards were established by the Software Publishers Association (SPA), now the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), and are the only peer-recognition awards program of its kind in the industry, providing a unique opportunity for companies to earn the praise of their competitors. The Codie Awards program, now in its twenty-first year, remains the standard-bearer for celebrating outstanding achievement and vision in our industry. ColdFusion 8 is nominated as a finalist in the "Best Web Services Solution" category. Other Adobe finalists are LiveCycle Rights Management ES, Captivate 3, and Acrobat Connect Professional.

ColdFusion 8 is doing incredibly well, and we've been growing the team to support the increase in demand and interest. As noted previously, we have dedicated ColdFusion account managers in the U.S., we've added a full time ColdFusion Evangelist in Adam Lehman, and also brought on Josh Adams as an SE to support ColdFusion sales. And we are not done yet. We have immediate openings for dedicated ColdFusion Account Managers in Europe (preferably located in the U.K., Benelux, or Germany). The ideal candidate will have prior sales experience, experience with ColdFusion and the ColdFusion community, and must be willing to travel extensively throughout the region. Interested? Ping Kristen Schofield or myself.

Intelligent Enterprise handed out their 2008 Editors' Choice Awards, declaring that "Adobe is the key company to watch in the race toward mastery of RIA/Web 2.0 development.", and noting that "Adobe has a strongly positioned client (Flash) on millions of computers, a corps of evolving development tools (Flex, AIR, ColdFusion)".

The AIR based Adobe Media Player (demonstrated at MAX 2007) is up on Labs for download.

CNet is running a story entitled New players enliven open source summarizing important open source announcements and projects of 2007, stating that "In 2007, much of the open-source action happened outside the corridors of the usual corporate suspects."

The story then lists several companies and projects, and the very first reads: "Adobe Systems was one. It's long been a powerful proprietary-software company, but its acquisition of Macromedia led to a new sharing ethos. Shortly after a major donation of script-execution code to the Mozilla Foundation last year, Adobe announced in April the open-source release of its Flex tool for Flash programming."

Jared Rypka-Hauer shares his thoughts on ColdFusion and the community in an Adobe era over on Fusion Authority.

Futsal is an indoor version of Soccer, and the game is hugely popular in Japan, where many companies have employee teams. Adobe Japan created the Adobe MAX Cup 2007 Futsal Tournament (with the final game set to coincide with MAX 2007 Japan later this week), and teams from Adobe, Intel, Microsoft, SAP, Yahoo!, as well as several Japanese companies, are all taking part. And it's not all about fun and games - the tournament is supported by a variety of sites and applications, and the Adobe Japan team used the opportunity to leverage Premier Pro, AIR, AMP, Flash, Flex, Flash Media Server, and of course ColdFusion (which powers the official Adobe MAX Cup 2007 Futsal Tournament site).

Yesterday (while I was offline) Adobe launched the new Adobe Developer Connection - the new consolidated portal with everything you need to build on our platform and products, all wrapped in a slick ColdFusion powered DHTML interface. Very cool stuff indeed, check it out!

While the ColdFusion community may not know Lee Brimelow, the Flash community most definitely does. Lee has a strong Flash background, and has more recently been applying his skills and expertise to Flex and AIR development (his presentations on the On AIR Bus Tour were some of the most popular) And Lee has just announced that he has joined us on the Adobe Evangelism team. Welcome aboard, Lee!

Many of you will remember Andrew Shorten from Macromedia days. Late last year he joined Microsoft, but, as he announced today on his new blog, he's back, and will be joining us on the evangelism team. And being UK based, he's just in time too, with the first MAX Europe coming up. Welcome back Andrew!

AboutWeb and Carahsoft are hosting the first meeting of the new Capital Area Adobe LiveCycle User Group on July 18, 2007 at the Marriott Metro Center. This morning meeting will start with an hour of networking time, and will be followed by presentations by Bobby Caudill (Group Manager, Global Government Solutions, Adobe Inc.) and Chris Turner (Adobe Product Specialist, AboutWeb LLC). If you've ever wanted to know more about LiveCycle, or want to better understand the LiveCycle/Flex/ColdFusion relationship, you may want to attend this event. Registration required.

Adobe.com is now running on ColdFusion 8, and Rahul Narula notes that the conversion from CFMX7 was seamless, just the way we like it. Good to see adherence to the eats its own dog food rule, and even better to see a clean and seamless transition.

Adobe has announced plans to open source Flex under the Mozilla Public License. This includes the source to the ActionScript components from the Flex SDK (which have been available in source code form with the SDK since Flex 2 was released) as well as the Java source code for the ActionScript and MXML compilers, the ActionScript debugger and the core ActionScript libraries from the SDK. The Flex SDK includes all of the components needed to create Flex applications. Details posted on Labs. Scoble has posted comments, interviews, and more.

Creative Suite 3 has been officially announced. For an interactive introduction visit the Creative License page. To learn which products are included with which editions, see the product page (click on the Compare Editions tab). And for those of you who were worried, CS3 includes an update to our much beloved Fireworks. Yeah!

Adobe is conducting a series of site visits in the San Francisco Bay Area over the next couple of weeks, and here is your opportunity to give your feedback to our researchers.

We are looking for people who are working full-time with web technologies. If this describes you, please fill out this questionnaire. If selected, 2-3 researchers would come to visit you at your office, the session would last 2-3 hours, and you'd be compensated with $200.

Thanks!

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