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Flash on the Beach, Miami (CANCELED)

Geoff — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:46:04 +0000

UPDATE: The Miami conference has been canceled due to lack of attendees. This is very sad news, but in an economy like this it’s not really surprising. Guess we’ll just have to wait for September for our dose of Flash on the Beach.

If you are still looking for a Flash/Design conference to attend this summer, I highly recommend Flashbelt.

The best European Flash conference is heading to the states this spring. Flash on the Beach has been happening in Brighton, UK for the last few years and is such a good time, I think everyone should go.

I’ll be heading down to Miami this year to talk about YouTube type things, so if you are curious about using YouTube for a project, or just interested in hearing some stories about a very high performance Flash application, you should come to my session :).

In case you are interested, there’s tons of pictures and writing about past FotB events all over the place. So check it out, and hopefully I’ll see you there.

The conference

Geoff — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:55:11 +0000

There’s a pretty cool conference going on this weekend (starts tomorrow!) with tons of awesome speakers, and it’s all online!

The Conference takes place online (via Acrobat Connect) or in a few local hubs around the world. Its going on all weekend, and there’s a ton of interesting talks, so you should check it out.

I’ll be giving a talk at the San Francisco (actually closer to San Jose) hub all about the YouTube video players on Friday at 11am.

Powered by YouTube event this Thursday, July 10th 2008

Geoff — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:04:07 +0000

Are you interested in the various API services that YouTube offers? Are you going to be in the bay area this Thursday? Then why not stop by Powered by YouTube?

It’s taking place at the San Bruno YouTube office this Thursday, July 10th from 10:30am to 5:30pm.

Here’s the blurb about it:

Powered By YouTube is a developer gathering focused on bringing together developers to learn more about the YouTube APIs and Tools. Spend the day at YouTube’s headquarters and learn how to bring YouTube to your website, share best practices, and get hands-on with the APIs. Meet fellow YouTube API developers across a wide range of companies, YouTube engineers and product managers, and leave inspired to enhance your user experience with the YouTube APIs.

Also: It’s free, and you get a free lunch.

YouTube / Picasa Hackathon @ Google

Geoff — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:22:25 +0000

Would you like to come to the Googleplex and learn about the new YouTube APIs directly from the engineers that built them?

Yes? Then head over to this signup page and let us know you’re coming. The event is on March 27th, 2008 and will be held at the Google Mountain View campus.

p.s. free punch and pie

Now stalkable through Twitter

Geoff — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:44:12 +0000

I signed up for twitter. Feel free to stalk me if you like.

Off to SXSW!

Geoff — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:55:17 +0000

Going to SXSW for the next week or so. That is all.

NYC Adobe User Group meeting: Oct. 4th, 7pm

Geoff — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:04:19 +0000

The next Adobe User Group meeting is coming up this Wednesday, October 4th (that’s 2 days away!).

The presentations will be about Actionscript 3 and design patterns. If you are in the area, stop by… The meetings are held at the Schematic offices near Union Square.

More info and directions here.

Adobe user group meeting tonight in NYC

Geoff — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:40:15 +0000

Schematic will be hosting the first of many Adobe User Group meetings tonight at the NYC office. If you are looking for something to do, stop on by. There will be two presentations:

7-8pm: Simulating Physics with Flash by Alec Cove
8-9pm: OOP Animation with Fuse by Roger Braunstein

The meeting will take place at 41 E. 11th st, 6th Floor at the Schematic NY office. The entrance is on 11th St. just east of University.

More information can be had on the AUG website.

BarCamp NYC – Jan 14th and 15th

Geoff — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 23:55:43 +0000

BarCamp NYC is coming up this weekend. I’ll be there with a handful of coworkers from Schematic, we’ll be doing a presentation on Flash and Javascript nerdery and other topics (the presentation is still in development). If you are into … Continue reading →

My sweet new iTunes phone!

Geoff — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 02:16:04 +0000

I was a little dissapointed at the iTunes phone (ROKR) stats. Who only wants to listen to 100 songs? Puhleese.

Check out these exclusive shots of my new iPhonePod. It’s got all the features of a RAZR, and all the features of a 4GB iPod nano.

So sweet. (click the pics to go to Flickr and comment if you like)

Here is me talking to someone very important about something very important.

After Flash Forward

Geoff — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 18:15:37 +0000

We just finished up our Flash Forward session. If you were watching I would love to hear feedback (just leave a comment or send me an e-mail).

Here are links to the projects we showed or talked about:

And if you couldn’t make it, Brandie posted some pictures.

UPDATE: Here’s the presentation in PDF format. (44MB)

Flash in the can

Geoff — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 03:05:34 +0000

I’ll be in Toronto for Flash in the Can this weekend. If you are attending and want to get together for some PSP muiltiplayer or drinks, I’ll be going to this on Sunday night.

Or, if you know of other cool things happening, let me know by sending a mail to mobile@deconcept.com.

I Choo Choo Choose You

Geoff — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 05:20:13 +0000

A couple years back I was talking to some friends and they mentioned how cool it would be to have the Valentine’s Day cards from past Simpsons episodes. Among them the “I Choo Choo Choose You” that ~~Ralph gives Lisa~~ Lisa gives Ralph, ~~and the “Bee Mine” card with the bee guy on it.~~ The other card was actually “Let’s BEE Friends” and had nothing to do with the Bumblebee guy, even though I think it would have been way better if he was on it.

Well I thought it was such a good idea that I found a screenshot of the card online somewhere and traced it in Illustrator. So I’m offering the results of that for download so you can give your special someone a neat little card this year.

Here it is:

And click here to download the .eps version.

~~I don’t have a copy of the “Bee Mine” card, but I do know that someone traced it and placed it online at some point last year, so maybe with some luck that one will surface.~~

UPDATE (02-02-2005): Found the Bee card:

Courtesy of Jedrek Kostecki.

Download the .eps version.

UPDATE (02-08-2005): Also, if you are looking for some other great stuff for your girlfriend this valentine’s day, check out I See France for some nice underthings.

The Life Aquatic and the number 11

Geoff — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 05:44:07 +0000

I just got back from seeing the newest Wes Anderson movie, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. It was pretty good and definitely had the Wes Anderson trademarks: the un-fatherly father figure, the son without a role model, the rampant use of Futura.

I don’t want to give anything away, so let me just get to the point: all throughout the movie there are tons of references to the number 11. Some don’t seem to fit in at all with what’s going on and seem to have no real relevance to anything. I’m hoping that maybe someone can figure it out and clue me in.

Trying not to give any spoilers, here’s a list of things I noticed (there are more I think, but I can’t remember them all!):

Owen Wilson says about the shark: “I’ve got a feeling that we could see it from 111 feet in the air” (or something close)
The crewmember’s kid (German kid) is 11 years old(?)
In the sub the reporter says randomly about her baby “In 12 years he’ll be 11 1/2″
The last bowie song has the lyrics “I’m up on the eleventh floor / And I’m watching the cruisers below”

I also thought there was some mention of a “room 111″ towards the beginning, but I’m not sure.

So what’s the big deal with the number 11? Someone give me a clue.

UPDATE (12-22-2004): I posted a thread on IMDB about this. No responses with any good guesses, but someone did point out that the Royal Tenenbaums lived at 111 Archer ave.

New Netscape browser screenshots

Geoff — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 16:34:43 +0000

I just saw some screenshots of the new Netscape browser that is in development.

Of particular interest is this one that shows a preference pane with the option to “Display like Netscape” or “Display like Internet Explorer”. This really seems strange to me, since 95% or more of internet users these days proabably don’t know the difference between the two.

So who is this feature for? The web developers who need to test their content on multiple browsers? Surely most web developers would use the full versions of these browsers to check their pages, but now this adds an additional possibility of your pages breaking. Not only will you have to check your pages in “Netscape,” but “Netscape using Internet Explorer.”

Firefox 1.0 released

Geoff — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 15:11:17 +0000

I’m entering this post right now with Firefox 1.0 (ftp download). Looks like they added in a more visible ‘critical updates’ notification (little red thing shows up next to the search box). Also of note, is the new Firefox Google start page. Hmm, I wonder what Google could be cooking up.

UPDATE: Also, if you feel like giving a little to help further develop Firefox and the other cool Mozilla Foundation projects, you could always buy a Firefox t-shirt. I just bought a Navy one.

Flickr possibilities

Geoff — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:33:01 +0000

By now everyone and their mom has heard of Flickr, that handy photo sharing website that is so awesome.

Well I had this little idea for a cool new feature they could add:

Right now they have a handy ‘tag’ system that works like keywords. This is cool when you want to see all the photos that are of ‘cats,’ but what if I wanted to see pictures of current events? When Brandon started up photoblogs.org, he had the top 100 photoblogs listed there, and that’s cool and all, but it starts to suck when time goes on, and the list is always roughly the same. So I said “Hey, you should put a ‘recent popular sites’ on there.” So he added this nifty little section called Top newcomers and it works like this:

These are the top 10 registered photoblogs that have been added to Photoblogs.org within the last 4 months. Rankings are derived from the favorites lists of our users. In case of a tie, older sites are ranked higher.

Flickr could benifit from something similar to this: limit the time to one week or maybe even just a few days, and then list which tags are the most popular for that time period. The information may already be there if they store a timestamp with when a photo was tagged, but even if they don’t, it might be pretty easy to add in.

The reason I started thinking about this was on my way home from the coffee shop tonight I saw some people staring up at the moon. Now I consider my self a pretty connected person, and take breaks from work all day to read the goings on in the world and a bunch of blogs too, but for some reason I didn’t hear one peep about this lunar eclipse that happened.

Anyway, imagine that you just read something in the paper about a big protest, or about some huge natural disaster, or a lunar eclipse… and you go to Flickr and look at the recent ‘hot tags’ and get to see tons of images all of the things going on in the world right now (or last week as it may be). Or maybe, you completely miss a lunar eclipse because nobody tells you about it, but you still get to see all the pictures people took because you visit the Flickr ‘hot tags’ page every morning.

A hack a day

Geoff — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 13:45:35 +0000

This site looks like it has potential to be very very cool. They just post one ‘hack’ each day. Things range from turning your ipod into a pirate radio station to a little ramjet engine. Neat.

Presidential debate bingo!

Geoff — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:50:02 +0000

Watching the debate tonight? Make sure you bust out your Presidential Debate Bingo boards!