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There’s a new article up on Adobe’s DevNet area which I contributed to, “Advancing mobile storytelling with Adobe’s distributable player,” describing some of my experiences developing the Adobe MAX conference mobile guide for Adobe and Untravel Media last fall. For those looking for an in-depth tutorial with code and walkthrough, please don’t hate me – this article stays up on the surface more and takes a more “narrative” approach.

Michael Epstein contributed several sections focused on Untravel’s work in mobile storytelling as well, with some thoughts on how the latest version of Flash Lite provides new ways to achieve their goals and “develop a global channel of location-specific travel stories.”

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The Open Screen Project site has a an interesting doc with Flash Lite analytics stats looking forward through 2012. While the upward curves of global adoption is nice to see (and by now are used to seeing in these reports if you’ve been hanging around Flash Lite for a while) an eyebrow raiser for me was the very little year to year change in US in the chart: Flash-Enabled Handset Shipments by Region going through 2012. Would be nice to see not all the growth in APAC…

I’m hoping for a breakout year in FL, with the distributable player (despite Ovi announcement of non-support, doh!) and aggregator partnerships. Will be tough though. Dare I say it’s do or die time this year? Being a diehard Flash Lite optimist, I’ll bet on do vs die…

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Saw this Best and Worst Of The Mobile Web e-book recently, which I found a very good collection of advice that applies not only to mobile web sites, but really any mobile-based content including Flash Lite. Download the pdf, some good examples and advice in there.

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Thanks to Rob Toole for mc’ing and posting the latest BAMaDUG (Boston Adobe Mobile and Device User Group) podcast. We covered a lot of topics from the Adobe MAX conference, the new Flash Lite OTA Player, CS4, and more. And I ALMOST got to try Scott’s homebrew belgian beer, but one of Cambridge One’s fine waitstaff shut us down before I could grab some. Oh well, next time.

If interested and local to Boston, please do come and attend our next get together. Or join our google group or newly created Adobe group.

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The Adobe MAX 2008 Mobile Guide app is available now for your Flash Lite 3.0 enabled Symbian phone. I developed this app for Untravel Media, and hope folks find it useful for exploring some of the MAX sessions on the go. There’s some video segments in there as well related to mobile from some luminaries of the Flash Lite community, Bill Perry, Peter Kacandes, James Talbot, Evan Kirchhoff…

This is an unsigned app currently, so make sure your App Mgr settings “Software Installation” is set to ALL to allow unsigned apps like this to install properly.

Also, if you experience problems with the .sis install, and your phone supports Nokia’s WRT, try downloading the .wgz install package, just below the .sis link, titled “Flash Lite 3.0 — North America”. In particular the WRT version is meant to address a bug in the Nokia North America firmware that prevents Flash Lite from accessing the network. (Thanks Rob Toole for that tip!) The WRT version also gets around the “auto-rotate” issue with videos in Flash Lite that exists in the currently released firmware, which hopefully will be fixed in the next firmware releases. Currently the rotation bug is handled by dynamically adjusting the layout on the fly.

Feel free to post any comments here on problems running the guide. Although I’ve tested successfully on a number of devices, I have had reports of issues with video/network connectivity, as well as a couple others. Devices it has been tested on (some via Nokia’s Remote Device Access, which isn’t as good as “real world” device testing, but…) are: N95, N95 8GB, N96, E71, N82, N78, E66, 6220 Classic. I have heard problems running videos with E71 from some users. So many phones, so many flavors of phones…

Lastly, if you have problems with the .sisx or .wgz versions, the raw SWF has been provided as an additional link.

Hope you enjoy it!

Max

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