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Tuesday, April 08, 2003
Macromedia Central Looks a lot Like Macromedia Portal
Unless you're a hardcore web developer you probably haven't heard about an interesting new product from software developer Macromedia. It's called Macromedia Central, and it's a paradigm-shifting, out-of-the-box-thinking, revolutionary, platform-neutral environment, that will... um, oh, sorry about that. I fell into "corny buzzword" mode there for a second.
Ahem! It's a new product based on Macromedia's omnipresent Flash technology, and seems to offer a new way to think about Internet applications, a way that seems very much like a web portal. Take a look-see at the screenshot and notice how this early snapshot of the app looks an awful lot like the classic portal interface, with customizable modules that provide various functionality arranged in panels.
Macromedia Central is due to be released this summer, so it remains to be seen how this will all play out. But, if they're going in the direction I think they're going, then desktop applications and Internet-enabled applications will converge like never before, and we really will experience a dramatic shift in how people interact with web sites and traditional applications.
As a Macromedia developer myself, I can hardly contain my enthusiasm!
Posted by
Cory Kleinschmidt
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