Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE)'s Flash technology has long played a major role in delivering compelling graphics online, but a shadow now hangs over its future as powerful technology companies--Apple, Google (NSDQ: GOOG), and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)--and open source organizations like Mozilla work to make Flash unnecessary.

At least, that's the way some view the situation, although as one might expect, Adobe sees things differently.

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Adobe Systems has announced Adobe Flash Platform Services, a new online service that lets content providers promote and measure the effectiveness of their Web applications across social networks, desktops, and mobile devices.

The new service, one in a series that Adobe intends to roll out over time, was announced at the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) MIXX Conference and Expo in New York.

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This article takes a straightforward look at what people think the different components of a digital signage network should cost.

This post has a lot of graphs and charts.

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Adobe’s Flash product has obviously been an integral part of the web for many years now. But it still has a major weakness when it comes search engines and complexity. While Adobe and others have been working on solutions to make Flash-based website more Google-friendly, they’re still nowhere near as crawl-able as regular HTML-based pages. FluidHTML or “Fhtml” is a new server-side markup language that hopes to merge Flash-like functionality with the easier-to-use HTML language.

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Largely by virtue of its support from YouTube, which some say supplies four-fifths of the Web's streaming video, Adobe Flash is the de facto delivery standard for video through Web pages.

While content creators have been urging Google and other video hosts to implement better controls over how unauthorized content can become so freely distributed, Adobe is now working on a way to enable those creators to post or host their own Flash video, in a way that they and only they are in control of the distribution process -- including, who gets to see those videos and for how much.

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