MAX Day 1

Day 1, for me, consisted of attending the keynote, socializing, and being on a BOF panel. The keynote was, in my opinion, not bad but certainly not as exciting, inspiring, or invigorating as I'd hoped - mostly just not energetic enough. There were several announcements including the release of Flash Lite 3, the acquisition of Virtual Ubiquity and their online Word Processor Buzzword (http://www.adobe.com/special/buzzword/faq.html), and the release of the Adobe Media Player (http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/mediaplayer/). I decided to get to know my new colleagues at effectiveUI better and to do some business development and social networking rather than attend sessions, which I can watch recordings of later. The bus. dev. today alone completely made the conference worthwhile, which is great. Also, the Adobe staff were available, everywhere, and eager to chat. My BOF experience was participating in the "Promoting ColdFusion outside the ColdFusion Community" think tank, which was fun and, I believe, productive.