Om Malik wrote an article for CNN/Money about the virtual desktop applications that are starting to pop up. A snippet of the article, which he also singles out on his blog summarizes the piece well:
The new wave of investment is driven by the convergence of three major trends. First, broadband is spreading everywhere. Second, open-source programming tools are widely available and improving in quality. And third, technologies are emerging that make Web-based software as graphical and interactive as desktop applications, like Ajax (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and Adobe’s Flash.
I wonder if without Goowy, Flash doesn’t even enter this particular discussion of desktop-looking applications delivered over the web. Of course it should be a big part, but so often it isn’t. Part of the problem is a lack of applications people can point to and say “this is awesome, Flash is really cool!”
In may talks with the guys at Goowy and Gtalkr, Adobe seems to be doing a good job at engaging them and working with them to make their applications better. The Flex developer derby is another good example of a way to showcase the potential of Flash. But we need more apps like Goowy and Gtalkr to really get the word out.
So with that in mind, check out the developer derby. CF developers should be entering Ray’s contest. The more public apps we have the more exposure Flash is going to get, and the more people are going to be asking us to develop with it.
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