Adobe Photoshop Online / Virtual Ubiquity
Friday, March 2nd, 2007Adobe Apollo/Flex continues to dominate this weeks tech-news with two - though distant - product announcements.
Virtual Ubiquity is aiming for a public beta-release of their Flex-based word-processor BuzzWord (Screenshot courtesy of GigaOM) in summer 2007. thanks to Apollo, BuzzWord will run both on- and offline, which puts it way ahead of Google Docs. it’ll be interesting to see if Flash-based apps for print-production will handle pagination and typography better than current Ajax-offerings (Google Docs f.e. sucks majorly by not even supporting headers & footers).
proving that they’re eating their own dogfood, Adobe itself announced plans to release an online, free & ad-supported version of their flagship-product Photoshop. as noted by Michael Arrington, this must be scary news for all the current players in the online photo-editing market…
