Good new to start the day with! The Open Source media Framework (formerly codename “Strobe”) has been published on the Adobe Open Source website. OSMF is a modular Actionscript 3 based video player framework. The framework provides modules for CDN integration, syndication, tracking, etc. OSMF is licensed under the MPL 1.1 .
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Yesterday was the day of the Michael Jackson Memorial. This event was broadcasted from Staples center in Los Angeles. Multiple broadcasters aired the memorial on TV and a huge number of outlets (and here) also used streaming to cover the memorial on the web.
ZDNet has an overview of the amount of data transferred and [...]

At CES 2009 Adobe sneaked the Flash Lite for the Digital Home (aka Flash for TV) and it was officially announce at NAB 2009. In this video Robert Scoble gets an overview of this platform from Anup Murarka (director of Technology for Adobe Systems)

Via Building 43.

This weekend I spend some time upgrading my home server from Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04) to Jaunty Jackalope. This was not a straightforward upgrade because some of the release between these version are not available on the Debian archive server and has to be pulled from the “old-releases.ubuntu.com”.
I used the documentation for the EOLUpgrade procedure [...]

Yes, you read it right in the title. Adobe Flash Catalyst is now in public beta available on Adobe Labs. You can download this new software today and start building your RIAs right from the start, based on Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator assets. Ryan Stewart has a lot of information (and screencasts) on Flash [...]