blip.tv hidden job offer

found in my Flash debug logs when I come across a blip.tv video:

Hello there, Flash cowboy!
If you can read this message, you should apply for a job at blip.tv.
Send an email to careers@blip.tv with your resume and make sure to
let us know that you saw this message.

Love,
The blip.tv dev team

iPhone / Flash cover-up

Found this article suggesting that Steve Jobs demoed a Flash enabled iPhone at WWDC 2008. Reading further, that’s not the case, but it was… revealing.

The demo was a side by side comparison of nationalgeographic.com being downloaded by old iPhone vs. iPhone 3G. Both worked and got the NG homepage… but not really.

You see, the Nation Geographic homepage uses Flash. And if you don’t have Flash, you’ll see this placeholder & link:

See, this presentation requires Flash. Good graphic, well done.

But the iPhone demo, the one that puts the entire internet in your pocket, got this instead:

As you can see, someone (*cough, Apple*) edited out the text that states Flash is missing. Yet this is a “live side-by-side demo” of the iPhone browsers.

So, not a real live demo, and not really the NG website.

To paraphrase Ferris Bueller, “I yell rat!”

 

More Preface

Last fall I Started working on my first blog with the determination to help Flash designers overcome the banality of programming and learn to understand and embrace OOP AS2 (Actionscript 2) programming. Without going too far into detail, many things changed that caused me to re-evaluate that plan.

I’ve been working like mad in AS3 and Flex and expect to tap into AIR very soon as well. There’s a part of me that wants to also talk about mid-to-high level tricks and solutions, which doesn’t go along with the previous focus. Finally, since my previous blog, I co-founded Mixwit – an online social media platform that has raised many eyebrows.

So if you ever wonder why my posts seem completely random, it’s because I’m trying to fill in holes in many different places and trying to relate my experience of designer/developer/media-professional…