Adobe recently released Adobe Wave – ludicrous Idea But Good AIR Example
// August 1st, 2009 // No Comments » // Uncategorized
Adobe® Wave™ software gets the information you care about right to your desktop. Adobe recently released a new product in Labs called Adobe Wave, which is basically a service tied to an AIR application to send updates directly to the desktop of end users. It serves the same function as a desktop based RSS reader, but is proprietary, does not read regular RSS feeds, and has no web based access for users to check the latest updates. The service will probably not have any wide spread due to the effort necessary for publishers to set up their feeds and integrate the Wave API into existing feeds.
Anyway, Flash developers should still check it out because it is a great example of a light-weight AIR application that has a nice simple interface and great web connectivity.
With Adobe Wave, get all of your notifications through a single application. You don’t have to worry about downloading a separate notification application for each website. To find out more, click on a notification to take you to a browser pointing right where you want to go. Built with Adobe AIR® technology that has been installed over 200 million times, Adobe Wave lets you see all your most recent alerts at a glance.
Discover which of your favorite sites are using Adobe Wave. Click “ADD” in the bottom left corner of Adobe Wave to browse the Adobe Wave Gallery. Here, you can add feeds with a single click.
How it Works
The Adobe Wave Service is a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering hosted by Adobe. It is a fault-tolerant and highly available service infrastructure dedicated to providing reliable delivery of your notifications.
A REST API enables you to reach users on their desktop without requiring you to have a desktop presence yourself.
The Publisher Portal is a website where you can create and manage notification feeds, including customizing notification appearance and setting up lists of topics for users to follow.
After you have your feed perfected, you then invoke the ‘Send Notification’ API to send both global and user-specific notifications.
To introduce users to your notifications, there is a customizable subscription badge for you to place on your website. This allows users to sign up for your feed by clicking on the badge and start getting your notifications (users are prompted to install Adobe Wave or Adobe AIR if needed).
You can learn more about Adobe Wave at Adobe Labs.
