Building the Analytics Reporting Suite for Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web service to help businesses figure out where their visitors come from and how they interact with their sites. Google Analytics Reporting Suite is an Adobe AIR application that brings Google Analytics to the desktop.

Requires Adobe AIR

Download: Google Analytics Reporting Suite 3.2 Beta 

Labels: Adobe, Analytics, beta

As anyone who has had the pleasure of doing web design and development through marketing agencies knows, Flash tends to be wildly popular among clients and wildly unpopular among, well, pretty much everyone else. Part of the reason for this is because Flash is so inherently un-Googleable; anything that goes into a Flash-only website is basically invisible to search engines and therefore, the world. That will no longer be the case, however, as Adobe announced today that it has teamed up with Google and Yahoo to make Flash files indexable by search engines.

This announcement has been a long time coming, as Flash developers have been wishing for ways to make their content searchable for close to a decade. Adobe acknowledges this in its announcement, saying that although search engines are able to index static text and links within Flash SWF files, "[Rich Internet Applications] and dynamic Web content have been generally difficult to fully expose to search engines because of their changing states—a problem also inherent in other RIA technologies."

Full article: arstechnica.com 

Labels: Adobe, flash, player, search, Yahoo

ReadAir 0.1 is an OSX Themed Desktop Client for Mac or Windows. Built with Adobe Air.

Features
 · Mac themed scrollbars and form elements
 · Full synchronization with Google Reader Account
 · Add/Remove/Manage tags
 · Subscribe/Unsubscribe from feeds
 · Search your feeds
 · User preferences
 · Resizable viewing pane
 · Auto software update
 · Auto login

Download: ReadAir 0.11 

Labels: Adobe, airlines, Macintosh, ReadAir, reader

Adobe announced this morning that it has extended its Adobe Premiere Express service to two other online video services: YouTube and MTV.com. The free, Flash-based "video remixer" will allow users of the world's most popular video sharing site to splice their videos together with music, transitions, and other effects without requiring them to have special software on their computers. Similarly, MTV.com is holding a contest wherein users can "mix" new versions of Kelly Clarkson's video "Never Again" with the Premiere Express tool.

Adobe first launched Premiere Express in a partnership with PhotoBucket last February. The editor's drag-and-drop interface made it easy for PhotoBucket's users to create "remixes" of their videos and photos hosted on the site. They could then save them out as Flash movies, which are embeddable on any type of web page. PhotoBucket and Adobe billed it as an easy-to-use, no-experience-required solution for users to add multimedia elements to their personal photos and videos.

Full article: arstechnica.com 

Labels: Adobe, MTV, remixer, tool, youtube