AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

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Improved Flash indexing

July 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Google
We’ve received numerous requests to improve our indexing of Adobe Flash files. Today, Ron Adler and Janis Stipins—software engineers on our indexing team—will provide us with more in-depth information about our recent announcement that we’ve greatly improved our ability to index Flash.
Q: Which Flash files can Google better index now?
We’ve improved our ability to index [...]

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Tags: World Wide Web · search engines

Adobe’s Open Screen Project: Write Once, Flash Everywhere

May 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Tech Crunch

Adobe is making a big play to make Flash the de facto viewing environment not only for Web apps on your PC, but also on your mobile phone, your TV, and any other screen you can think of. It is announcing the Open Screen Project to make it easier to develop applications across devices—using [...]

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Tags: mobile · television · video

Adobe Wants to Be a Player

April 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Business Week
Chelsea Clinton was put off the other day when a student asked her about the Monica Lewinsky affair at a campaign rally. I know because I was surfing the Net and caught a video of it on The Washington Post’s Web site. After that, I replayed a few American Idol moments on YouTube (GOOG), [...]

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Tags: World Wide Web · software

Adobe Pushes DRM for Flash

February 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Adobe Pushes DRM for Flash - EFF.com
The immense popularity of sites like YouTube has unexpectedly turned Flash Video (FLV) into one of the de facto standards for Internet video. The proliferation of sites using FLV has been a boon for remix culture, as creators made their own versions of posted videos. And thus far there [...]

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Tags: Technology · software · video