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The winners of the 2004 MAX Awards have just been announced in New Orleans. "I love the work our customers are doing," said Rob Burgess, chairman and CEO, Macromedia, as the results were officially announced. "It's my pleasure to recognize their great achievements. Their work is an inspiration to all of us at Macromedia." The MAX Awards recognize the most effective and compelling experiences created using Macromedia technology, Burgess noted. Winners and finalists were selected by a team of Macromedia judges based on design and development, and the return on investment that the entrant's organization realized as a result. The winners, in 8 different categories, were as follows: Advertising: Yahoo! Messenger IMVironments uses Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 and Fla... (more)

MX Education and More, Come Flex With Us In Boston - Day 3 Today !!

Read full details of the accompanying 2-Day Expo (Yahoo! News) Come hear Macromedia's general manager for designer and developer products, David Mendels, keynote on how integration can only matter if it reaches users in meaningful ways. http://sys-con.com/edge2004/specevents.cfm http://www.sys-con.com/edge2004/registernew.cfm Come learn about Macromedia Flex, the presentation tier for Rich ... (more)

The MX Blogosphere

If one of the true signs of a vibrant developer community is an active blogosphere surrounding a technology, then the MX suite of technologies certainly passes that test with flying colors. In case you're not yet actively blogging yourself, MXDJ brings you here a comprehensive selection from some of the best known blogger-commentators (and some of the not so well-known too), by way of wh... (more)

Macromedia Announces MAX 2005 Conference

Macromedia, Inc. has announced its third annual MAX conference, to be held October 16-19 in Anaheim, Calif. MAX 2005 is set to give designers and developers a forum to share ideas with their peers, as well as get hands-on technical training, gain new skills, network with industry leaders, and attend sneak previews of upcoming Macromedia products. The conference will also highlight the powe... (more)

VitalStream and Sorenson Offer One-Click Flash Workflow

VitalStream, Inc., which provides streaming media solutions and global content delivery, and video compression technology developer Sorenson Media, have announced that Sorenson Squeeze 4.1 encoding software will be integrated into VitalStream's Streaming Service for Flash. VitalStream is the first content delivery network (CDN) provider to integrate the Sorenson Squeeze compression techn... (more)