Just got this via the Adobe User Group Managers List:
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Webby-in-Motion is a special collaborative contest presented by Adobe
and The Webby Awards where we ask motion designers, illustrators,
animators and other talented creative minds to design a 20-second
category introduction animation/video for The Webby Awards Gala in NYC
on June 10, 2008. Since we know that that sort of [...]

Something to think about for you guys. How do you deal with inquiries or clients that do not really stand highly regarded in your political or ethical views? It’s really hard for me to provide an example avoiding to step onto someones’s toes – but obviously there are a few things that each individual around [...]

Just went into Buzzword with Safari 3.1 for the first time. It’s officially an unsupported browser and therefore it now triggers the “unsupported browser” page whenever I’m accessing a document – arrgs… I have the feeling it’s not a technical issue as everything seems to work fine after I’ve clicked my way through, it’s probably [...]

Very cool – Photoshop Express is now available in public beta. Check it out, lots of fun and it also comes with 2 GB of storage space and a sharing URL (i.e. xyz.photoshop.com). It’s obviously not as powerful as a full Photoshop installation on your machine, but it does very well for a lot of [...]

I sincerely hope the word has spread that Adobe is currently running a huge series of online seminars (eSeminars) for designers, developers, photographers and also business folks. If not, please, please, please have a look at the overview, I’m sure you’d find those very interesting.
I’d like to point you to the developer series in particular [...]

The BVDW (Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft) in Germany has recently published a guidelines and recommendation document on usability. I came across it because Dirk Rosenbaum, one of the former directors of msg at.net (where I used to work back in Germany as a software architect from 2001-2005), was one of the main editors of the publication. [...]

Don’t blame me for being sexist please, but KnickerPicker has a very well done showcase of using Flash/FlashVideo for online product recommendation and guided shopping. If you click through to the online dressing room you can actually control/command a video-based model to show off…well…yeah…lingerie – sorry. It’s just about the technology though, really!

Why I think [...]