“Group members Rob Toole, Scott Janousek, Alessandro Pace, and Ira Hochman discuss a variety of news including Verizon Dashboard, Adobe Open Screen Project, Nokia as an internet company, and KuneriLite. With guest Naveena Aswadhati from GameBrix.”

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20 Tricks to Improve Flash Lite Development: Boost your efficiency and speed time to market with these 20 tips and tricks for improving Flash Lite development. Flash Lite experts will teach you how to optimize content, streamline workflows, and take full advantage of Adobe Device Central CS3, the new mobile authoring and device intelligence tool integrated across Adobe Creative Suite 3.

Creating Flash Cast Channels for Verizon Wireless: Be among the first to build and monetize Flash Cast channels for Verizon Wireless. Use Flash CS3 Professional to deliver compelling content to North America’s second largest mobile operator. Learn the process for creating and testing Flash Cast channels and how Verizon Wireless plans to enable a Flash Cast ecosystem in North America.

Creating Flash Lite Multiplayer Games: The market for multiplayer games is growing. Learn how you can take your existing desktop Flash skills and leverage them to create multiplayer Flash Lite games using Flash Lite 2.1 and Flash Lite 3. You’ll learn the process involved in developing, testing, and deploying your multiplayer games to consumers worldwide.
Designing for Mobile Experiences: In this session, we’ll explore how companies are approaching design for mobile devices, which have emerged as primary means of delivering engaging customer experiences. Learn how to easily adapt existing campaigns to take advantage of this exciting medium and tap into this growing market. See a demonstration of how take print or interactive content and convert it into powerful mobile device communications using Creative Suite 3.

Flash Lite 3 Development: The newest version of Flash Lite introduces support for FLV and many other exciting new features. Learn how to create compelling content for multiple devices, from smart phones to consumer electronics devices. Be the first to see Flash Lite 3 demos on the latest and greatest handsets.

From Desktop to Mobile: New Revenue Opportunities: Learn how you can make money by selling your Flash Lite content through various mobile content aggregators worldwide. If you already know Flash, then you have the potential to create Flash Lite content and generate recurring revenue for your creativity and ideas. In this session, we’ll explore the entire workflow for mobile content creation, from concept development and design to determining addressable devices, selling your content, and getting paid on a recurring basis.

Introduction to Flash Lite 2: This session is a deep-diving workshop on developing Flash Lite content and applications. We’ll begin with a general Flash Lite tutorial and then move on to more detailed information on how to develop content for mobile operators, including Verizon Wireless.

Mobile Workflows with Creative Suite 3 Web Premium: Discover how to create and reuse web content such as video and images for mobile devices using Adobe Device Central CS3, the all-new mobile authoring and device intelligence tool that’s integrated across Creative Suite 3. We’ll touch on Flash CS3 Professional, Photoshop CS3, Dreamweaver CS3, and more. Learn tips and tricks to design, preview, and test engaging mobile content across various handsets.

XD, Designing Engaging Mobile Experiences: This session will cover the guiding principles for designing engaging mobile experiences, an entirely new class of mobile services. Engaging mobile experiences put the user experience first. As a result, these experiences prioritize usability, offer new services, and deliver content instantaneously. More importantly, they build a powerful affinity with the user. They provide experiences that are expressive, memorable, and more desirable. Come learn the fundamental aspects of such experiences.

Flash Lite Success Story: Design Assembly, one of the top Flash Lite studios in Europe, has published several high-quality Flash Lite games enjoyed by consumers worldwide. Find out how this small company with a passion for Flash created a growing business on Flash Lite, and discover the many go-to-market opportunities available to Flash Lite developers.

Mobile and Devices Boot Camp: This session will be led by our Mobile and Devices Community Experts. It will be an unstructured session for anyone to ask questions or make comments, share coding problems and how to’s, discuss workflow issues, share demos, and more. The community experts will provide guidance, tips, tricks, mobile industry knowledge, and anything else to help those who are new and those who are already developing applications and content for mobile devices. All levels of experience in design and development are encouraged to attend this three-hour bootcamp.

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Now I have two questions:
1 – How can we develope content for i-channel, what is the process and so on…
2 – When these types of service will be available outside Japan

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This is the first Macromedia Mobile user group dedicated to Flash Technology and Mobile. The intent of the group is to share knowledge, information and experience around Flash and Mobile technologies. We will have montly meetings and also we will create articles, presentations and discussions to share our experience developing Flash applications for mobile devices. If you are from the Boston area you are welcome to join the group.

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