I found some interesting information in the Breeze Presentation released today by Macromedia. This Breeze Presentation covers their financial information for the quareter but has some little things in there that some might find interesting.

• There will be an update to Flash MX 2004 in November. I have no idea what they will be doing but i’m assuming this will be targetting many of the issues that people have expressed about the release.
• Royale will be showcased at MAX and will be released early next year.
• Macromedia’s server products are selling better than expected.
• Macromedia’s 2004 product family did not sell as well as expected.
• Macromedia will be purchasing eHelp. eHelp has great products and i’m sure this will be a good addition to Macromedia’ products.
• Overall it was a good quarter for Macromedia!

I’m not sure why I haven’t seen much buzz about this, but cnet has a short clip of Norm Meyrowitz, President of Macromedia Products showing a new product called Flashcast running on mobile phones. This seems to be somewhat like Central in that it is a shell for the flash player that also caches some of the content and assets. I think this is a great idea for mobile phone content and am looking forward to see what content emerges for such a platform.

What is more confusing and maybe why I have missed any news about this announcement before is that another product on the market bares the same name “Flashcast”. I also searched Macromedia’s website and only found one entry on JD’s blog about this product.

With the release of Flash MX 2004, IÂ’ve been giving a lot of thought to the importance of Components in application development. It seems like we keep moving more and more towards building applications around components. Now with the addition of Form based applications, and data components, components are even more important. I canÂ’t really imagine building a good application that uses forms without having everything (almost) as a component.
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