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Moving Blog

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Wordpress

Well, I did it. I switched to WordPress. I guess I am now officially a cool geek. The URL changed, which I realize can be a blog killer. However, we now have a shiny new blog set up at http://www.konductor.net/blog/, which will be the official Konductor blog. It makes sense, bearing in mind it is the konductor.net domain and all…

… and that brings us to the new URL – http://blog.affirmix.com/ – my personal blog. You will now be exposed to the brutality of my truly uninhibited, personal views on all things technical, without any attachment to Konductor what-so-ever.

The FeedBurner RSS feed has remained the same, so all you subscribers out there will still be heading to the right place. And now that I have full creative license over this thing, I also have a much shinier, Andrew-esque theme coming shortly – I will put up a post when that has been rolled out.

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LiveScribe

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

I just came across this: The LiveScribe pen. It records both what you write and say, and allows you to publish it as a full screen Flash presentation that can be embedded on your website.

Pretty cool. Check out the end result here.

Funnily enough, I thought the demo presentation actually raised an interesting point that is extremely relevant to us. We are quiet confident that we can stir up interest amongst the innovators and early adopters. But how will we target the early majority, and build up enough momentum and plan for the late majority? These will likely be people outside the realm of the Adobe community, so it is something we will need to start thinking about in short while…

I repeatedly hear about Aviary setting the benchmark in building up excitement for their products, which is an essential model for us to learn from in this early phase of development and product exposure. But I would love to hear about unique methods other successful web start-ups have used to target broader audiences outside of their peer group.

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Miscellany!

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

I just thought I would do up a quick post about some random goings on.

Firstly, I got some photos back from Pawel after Teknision came to Vancouver for our little brainstorm session.

Konductor Discussion
Exhibit A: John really seems to be expressing how he feels about things.

Konductor Team
Exhibit B: (Some of) the Konductor/Teknision team.

Second, I put up a little splash page for Konductor, http://www.konductor.net/. Maybe not the prettiest or most practical thing around, but it sure was fun to play around with Papervision3D 2!

Anyway, it took me a while to track down the info I wnated to make stuff look really cool, without having to do much work and 3D modelling. With the right combination of interactivity, lighting and effects, you can make stuff look cool with zero PV3D experience. Here is what got me up and running:

So the next big things we are working on is this: Branding and Marketing. We want to help people recognize what it is we are talking about, and how it can help them. The Dreamweaver Extension and AIR interface have the potential to save designers a heap of time, and there clients a bunch of headaches when updating there sites. Personally, I cant wait to get some public feedback on this thing!

Development-wise, I am still plugging away at the Dreamweaver Extension. The modified property inspectors are almost done – I will post a second part about streamlining Dreamweaver in the next day or so.

We have more exciting developments on AIR interface too, so I will post about these shortly. In fact, we have a lot of exciting stuff coming down the tubes, so be sure to stay tuned!

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