Daily Archives: April 29, 2007

A battle on multiple fronts

When Adobe acquired Macromedia (for US$3.4 billion!) I have to admit I was sceptical.

Between them they have two of the most installed applications that exist on the fringe of web content: Acrobat and Flash.

But, I doubted their ability to integrate the various product lines and generally get their act together. However, get their act together they have.

All of a sudden they are being seriously compared to Microsoft.

Adobe has momentum. Just like that Microsoft is fighting a battle on multiple fronts.

This week is Microsoft’s turn in the spotlight (or is that Silverlight?)

Will be interesting to watch…

UPDATE: Ryan Stewart has some more details on Silverlight.

Children Of Men

How did they do that?

If you haven’t seen Children Of Men, starring Clive Owen and directed by Alfonso Cuarón, you should.

Perhaps it’s just my curious nature, but I always get distracted watching a film like this, constantly thinking: how did they do that?

In this case there are a number of scenes which are filmed in a long single take. This short documentary has the behind the scenes story of how they achieved it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjNk-nxHjfM

Interesting!