2008
Adobe Speaker Series at the offices of Almer/Blank: Tapeless Workflows in CS3 Production Premium.
Join IDA, Adobe and the Rich Media Institute for a free, educational seminar on the 25th of June. Hosted by: Jacob Rosenberg, Bandito Brothers.
Attend and get the chance to win a CS3 suite from Adobe!
More Info and RSVP here.
–16 Jun 2008
The Broadband Generation—Stories & Gadgets
R Blank, part of a panel of speakers set to discuss the future of storytelling in the broadband universe: How to develop, produce and market content for the new media space. Success stories, shoestring budgets and how to generate revenue from 2 million YouTube viewers. Meet the next wave of online filmmakers. Read more about this event here.
–21 May 2008
Markus Almer speaks at AIGA Los Angeles
Our very own president spoke recently at an AIGA conference on best practices in Client Services. Read more about it here
–19 Mar 2008
Advertising & Flex
An article posted on Adobe's DevNet, an excerpt from AdvancEd Flex Application Development, a book co-authored by the team of Almer/Blank developers, which details our solution to implementing an ad system into a Flex application.
Read the Full Article Here
–19 Feb 2008
Flash Article on Adobe.com; by R Blank, CTO
Exploring a unified component workflow between Flex and Flash.
Building applications in Adobe Flash that can also be used as Adobe Flex components can be a challenge, as I learned with a project involving an embeddable video player. Learn from this example how to create a project enabling you to share code across three versions of this player published as a stand-alone Flash application, a Flash-generated Flex component, and an editable Flash CS3 Professional component.
Read the Full Article Here
–5 Jan 2008
A new website for a new year...
We updated our site for the new year! We decided to start fresh for 2008 by launching a new and improved version of our site. We like it. We hope you do too.
–3 Jan 2008
2007
The Launch of the Rich Media Exchange (RMX)
The RMX is a online community and user group creation and hosting tool developed by Almer/Blank for Adobe® User Groups. Create forums, upload videos, write blogs, organize with event calendars, syndicate your content, utilize customized advertising revenue sharing, all provided with free hosting. RMX
–17 Dec 2007
AdvancED Flex Application Development: Building Rich Media X
The book written by the team of developers at Almer/Blank is published. Co-written by R Blank, Chris Charlton, Omar Gonzalez and Hasan Otuome; this Flex application development book is unlike anything else on the market today. Truly in-depth and groundbreaking material from the same people who built RMX, here at the Flash and Flex development agency, Almer/Blank. View the book details at the Friends of Ed website. Or buy the book at Amazon.
–10 Dec 2007
Almer/Blank's own CTO R Blank was recently featured on Adobe®'s Developer Center for his knowledge and innovation in Flash. Read Article Here
–28 Sep 2007
R Blank's article on Making the leap to ActionScript 3.0 has been published in the May/June Adobe Edge Newsletter.
–31 May 2007
Markus Almer will be speaking at the upcoming Digital Hollywood, held in Santa Monica from June 11th - 14th 2007. He will be participatinog on a panel discussion entiteld Unimagined Realities - Short Form Innovative Programming - Live Action, Animation - 2D - 3D & Flash, on Tuesday, June 12th from 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM PST.
–30 May 2007
R Blank will be presenting YouTube & Beyond, a talk about Flash Video Sharing Networks, at NAB 2007's Post|Production World on April 18th.
–30 March 2007
R Blank will be traveling to Toronto to present two talks at FITC Toronto 2007, 4/22-4/24/07, one on 'Pricing and Contracts for Digital Media Professionals' and one on 'AS3 for the AS1/2 Hybrid Coder'.
–5 March 2007
Almer/Blank is very pleased to host the Los Angeles launch party for Adobe Creative Suite 3, on March 27th, from 7p-10p. More information here.
–1 March 2007
R Blank, CTO, today completed a ground-breaking proof-of-concept user-generated episodic broadband gaming system for NBC's Law & Order, produced through the American Film Institute Digital Content Lab.
–7 February 2007
R Blank, CTO, and his development team, led a 90 minute presentation on the technical side of FlexTube.tv to the Utah Flex User Group. You may watch an archive of the presentation.
–6 February 2007
Almer/Blank is very pleased to announce the launch of FlexTube.tv, software that enables anyone to create their own customized video sharing network.
–1 February 2007
2006
Announcing web seminars: "How to Create Online Training using Interactive Media".
–3 October 2006
Almer/Blank will be sponsoring and speaking at FITC Hollywood, taking place this Thursday-Saturday in Hollywood.
–2 October 2006
Almer/Blank is very pleased to announce the launch of StyleNetwork's StyleCafe broadband video network.
–1 September 2006
Watch an interview with R Blank about the creation of the Whiskas Virtual Cat in the latest issue of Zoom In Online (free account required).
–28 August 2006
Almer/Blank is very pleased to announce that the Yugioh Groove Box, which we completed with TimWorks.net for Mattel, has been included in Time.com's List of 50 Coolest Sites.
–15 August 2006
R Blank's interview on Flash's 10th anniversary has been posted as one of ten in a special feature on the Adobe Design Center.
–9 August 2006
R Blank's article on how Flash is changing Hollywood has been published in the July Adobe Edge.
–20 July 2006
R Blank will present a case study on the creation of The Vine @ E! Online for the Bay Area Application Developer's User Group on July 25th.
–11 July 2006
Markus Almer will be speaking at the upcoming Building Blocks, held in San Jose, CA from August 15-17, 2006. He will be participating on a panel discussion entitled "The Broadband Video Tipping Point: Availability of Vast Content and Portability - Broadband, ITV, Mobile & DTV, on Wednesday, August 16 from 9.00am to 10.15am.
–11 July 2006
Almer/Blank is pleased to be a lead sponsor of the Rich Media Institute, home to training, workshops and events for the Rich Media Industry in LA and around the US.
–10 June 2006
Almer/Blank is proud to be a silver-level sponsor of FITC Hollywood, the Rich Media Entertainment conference, October 5-7, where both R Blank and Markus Almer will present.
–1 June 2006
R Blank will be teaching a special two-day workshop based on his new Digital Media Training DVD on June 16 + 17 at the RMI.
–18 May 2006
R Blank's new DVD, Inside Adobe Flash 8, in Magnet Media's Digital Media Training Series, is now for sale.
–1 May 2006
R Blank will be speaking at FITC Toronto on Saturday, April 22nd, from 1:30-2:30, discussing the business and development issues encountered during development on The Vine @ E! Online.
–18 April 2006
R Blank's new DVD, Inside Adobe Flash 8, in Magnet Media's Digital Media Training Series, is now taking pre-orders.
–13 March 2006
Markus Almer will be speaking at the upcoming Digital Hollywood Spring, held in Santa Monica from March 27-30, 2006. He will be participating on a panel discussion entitled "The Broadband Video Tipping Point: Availability of Vast Content and Portability - Broadband, ITV, Mobile & DTV", on Thursday, March 30 from 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM am PST.
–1 March 2006
Almer/Blank is pleased to host LA Flash User group's 3rd anniversary meeting. The March 15th event, named JobStock '06, will pair talent with firms that need them.
–28 February 2006
Almer/Blank and LA Flash are pleased to announce a special three-day intensive Flex 2 Builder and ActionScript 3 workshop with Zach Stepek on March 9, 10 & 11, 2006.
–13 February 2006
Almer/Blank is pleased to announce the launch of The Vine @ E! Online, E! Entertainment Television's broadband video network, one of the largest and most robust mass consumer implementations of Flash video ever created. Read about The Vine in the February Adobe Edge.