Skype Mobile Phone

Skype’s now officially anounced Skype Mobile Phone. Britain’s mobile carrier 3 will start selling it on November 2 in the UK, and later this year in Australia, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland, Macau and Sweden. This will be the first mobile phone with Skype built in, meaning that calls to other Skype members are free. The phone will cost about $100 with a pay-as-you-go plan (for the non-Skype calls), or free with a monthly contract.

This may be a major shake-up in the telecommunications industry. Vodafone and others would have to start thinking

Where can you get one?

3 Skypephone has been developed in partnership with the mobile operator 3. It’s available or coming soon in the following countries:

United Kingdom		2 Nov ‘07
Australia		Coming soon.
Italy		Coming soon.
Hong Kong		Coming soon.
Sweden		Coming soon.
Denmark		Coming soon.
Austria		Coming soon.
Republic of Ireland		Coming soon.

Adobe Preparing Full Shift to Web Apps

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco last week, Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen said that the company is working toward shifting all of their apps online, but that it would probably take about 10 years for a complete shift. While the web as the computing platform of the future is currently a popular idea, and while prognostication 10 years out is rarely a good idea, we're skeptical that Adobe could pull off a full shift of its software catalog to Internet apps.

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MTV Adobe® AIR™ Challenge

MTV and Adobe are teaming up to bring you the "MTV Adobe® AIR™ Challenge." Think you can make the coolest Adobe® AIR™ application worthy of MTV's digital age? Then give it a shot!

They has lined up some great prizes for the three we like best - the "Total Request Application" Grand Prize and two finalists, "Pimp My Assets: Mashup" and "Making The Wildcard." So, get Adobe™ AIR®, grab some MTV assets, and start coding!

Make it
So you want to make an Adobe® AIR™ application, awesome. They are looking for three great ideas - they could be anything. Go simple and practical or complex and addictive. It's up to you! First, download Adobe® AIR™. Then check out all of the MTV assets available to pull in to your application - everything from MTV.com RSS feeds, Video & Podcast mRSS Feeds, and MTV Blog Feeds to and outlandish MTV art.

Start coding!

FDT3.0 - Flash AS3 development tool

Powerflasher released a brandnew AS3 version of their flash development tool FDT. I am already working with FDT3.0 in my current project and it is - as FDT1.5 - a huge timesaver in writing and debugging code. Lots of new features! No more Flex curiosities. Give it a try and install the try version.

http://fdt.powerflasher.com/

Compete! - Competition for Alexa

Finally, Competition for Alexa!

Are you a web metrics freak out? If so you probably have been using Alexa to access public site rankings and metrics. Here is another cool web tool.

Compete ! Its analytics tools, in effort to make it easier to follow online consumption for use by marketers. What started as a service for consumers last year has since shifted its focus in response to the market, as its service appeals more to marketers, bloggers and analysts more than consumers. Compete has always offered comparison tools for researching the behavior across websites.



















www.alexa.com
www.compete.com

Google Analytics New Features: Site Search, Event Tracking..

Google announced new features to its popular stats tool Google Analytics.

Now you can track the search activity on your site. Enable the Site Search feature in Google Analytics account to track what people are searching on your site and where they are going. You can see the keywords people use on your site search, where they begin their searches and where they end up.

Another feature is Event Tracking utility which tracks how people interact with Ajax, Flash and other multimedia content on your site.

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http://analytics.blogspot.com/2007/10/exciting-announcements-at-emetrics.html

Ramzan (Ramdan) Pray!

AMF via AIR!

Adobe launched Adobe Media Player!
"Adobe is driving the next generation of internet video delivery with the Adobe Media Player (AMP), Flash® Media Server software, content protection technologies, and a broad and powerful ecosystem of partners providing key solutions from content creation through delivery and monetization. AMP brings the best of both the broadcast television and web video worlds to your desktop—providing high-quality content both online and offline, with a wide range of business model possibilities."

Adobe is getting into the Desktop Media Player business, which means they are competing with Microsoft's Windows Media Player directly and also this will make Apple compete on features. Adobe will innovate, Apple will innovate. This should bring some good features into the marketplace. It is also a major opportunity for Adobe to feed the Apollo ecosystem and show people the limitations of traditional desktop software.

One of the cool things I was able to see was a great deal of skins and customization that gave publishers an opportunity to really enhance their brand equity. Going from channel to channel, the level of detail and difference between the channels was impressive.

Make sure you have the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) installed for using this Tool.

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