Market Speculation:Google takeover of Adobe

Macromedia>Adobe>Google ?

Flash video is the most popular thing over the internet. Youtube has not only created its own fortune out of it but also helped flash community to grow with the noticeable increase in the flash player 9 penetrations. By the time I am typing this post the penetration is as high as:

2,483,353,315

And this success story has created lots of forecast like these:

Google: Buy Adobe for Video!

A Google (GOOG) Takeover Of Adobe (ADBE)?

May be these are just speculations but who knows the future. Anything can happen in today’s market scenario.

Tomorrow may be adobe flash player will be known as Google Flash Player :)

Googlegear:Journey of a new Era

Last few days my techie friends are talking about googlegear.Today I have installed and tried to play with the nuts and bolts of it. This smart kid of google allows user to view and work on web app offline and is in its early beta only!!

I have just followed the following simple steps to create my first googlegear app.

1. Installed googlegear
2. Followed these few step by step guidance

And I was able to create my first googlegear web app, which is smart enough to work offline.

Googlegear architecture



Like all other breakthrough products of google, this product has also got tremendous amount of potentiality.

Currently googlegear is working with other technology partner adobe to align the Apollo SQL API with the Google Gear SQL API..

Flex-Java geek Christophe Coenraets has created a nice Flex-based SQLAdmin for Google Gears.

You can see the application here.

Google Code Search !

Now onwards you will be able to use Google Code Search which will allow you to search actionscript and mxml file by file name,you just need to put file:.mxml$ keywords to find out the mxml files. You can also search AS3 files in the same way.

Here's an example of a MXML

Here is the link