barcamp Nashville, '08

 
We’ve been a little busy around here, at the Center Of All Evil, recently, but today we got to lay out a little, and go do something fun. We went to BarCamp Nashville, at the Sommet Center.  

Many people in the hacker community that keep up with the tech news know that in the last year, there have been many mergers and buyouts, some yielding great technological benefits, and some not.

One major purchase was made by Adobe, the multimedia-mogul company that brought us groundbreaking software like Adobe Premier and Audition.

Immediately after their purchase of Macromedia, they began moving towards developing the side of their Web 2.0 market. What we see in today’s post is evidence that their efforts not in vain.

“Flash procrastinators rejoice.”

Those three words, previously used to describe the Web 2.0 javascript goodness that’s quickly becoming the internet status-quo now have a new companion.

Several years ago as internet connection speeds surged, multimedia-laden sites filled with video, high resolution images, and the most impressive feature of all, Flash, rose to the top. In that moment, how the consumer would view the internet was being permanently altered, though many may not have seen it.

While multimedia and on-demand services will forever remain as part of our experience on the information superhighway, the classic presentation platform, Macromedia’s Flash, now has some competition.

Even though connection speeds still climb steadily, the consumers’ demand for bandwidth grows at a dizzying rate - much faster than some ISP’s can adapt their networks.