GLU BETA RELEASE
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The first set of developer livedocs and developer components API has been released online here:
http://www.glu.com.au/developers/livedocs.htm
 

Final Flash Application checks and coding complete, as complete as a beta is anyway… CNAME setup, skin integrated, roundtrip registration from html, website copy updated throughout and database cleaned. There’s always countless little things…

http://www.glu.com.au/register.htm
 

We’ve had an overwhelming response from the Adobe Presentation and have since had to make the following changes to the Roadmap.

http://www.glu.com.au/about/roadmap.htm

The Flash Google Maps Mobile Video Blogging Widget which was due to be released on Monday has been put temporarily on hold.

A lot of people have expressed interest in the GLU Management System and it is this which has been prioritised ahead of the originally proposed end of month release.

This is an advanced notification that we will now be releasing the Management System and the following components next Monday 21st July!

1.0 Core Visual Components

- Video Gallery
- Podcast Player
- Image Gallery

2.0 Core Connectors

- GalleryConnector
- BlogConnector
- NewsConnector
- MenuConnector
- LoginConnector
- RegistrationConnector
- FormConnector
- BannerConnector
- LinksConnector
- SimplePageConnector
 

Was our presentation topic for Adobe’s Online Creative Festival, a world-first for them in delivering a LIVE online conference using Adobe Acrobat Connect.

For those unfamiliar with the term, UGC stands for User Generated Content and is functionality generally incorporated in social media and networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Blogs, etc.

Ricky and I had the opportunity to present the public beta of GLU, will start to be released shortly, and some of it’s more powerful features such as decreased development time and real-time media conversion.

Many thanks to everyone who logged into the event, Adobe and the staff on the day that made everything happen and special thanks to Clare Gillespie, Events Marketing Manager at Adobe, a stressful day I’m sure…

Some Adobe Acrobat Connect software familiarisation and audio issues at the beginning, not to mention Ricky’s computer crashing, but overall we were really happy with the presentation and also the mobile video conversion working!

Acrobat Connect Pro is great tool and with no previous experience we didn’t do too poor a job… Definitely could improve upon though! Adobe recorded all the presentations on the day and will be making links available shortly. We might look at recording an abbreviated version, will wait and see.

Check out the mobile video in the links below taken at Adobe offices, submitted, then automatically converted and published into the Flash UGC Website which was being put together on the fly!

GLU is a Rich Media Community, Management System and Development Framework which we’ve had the opportunity to develop over the last 18 months at various levels on commercial projects.

The public beta release we’re making available free to use, and plan to spend an increasing amount of time developing the management system and development framework.

 
RELATED LINKS:

GLU Roadmap:
http://www.glu.com.au/about/roadmap.htm

The Flash UGC Website created:
http://adobe.glu.com.au/

Register for GLU here:
http://www.glu.com.au/register.htm

Adobe Online Creative Festival website:
http://www.adobeonlinefestival.com/

Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatconnectpro
 

The GLU Website has officially been made live during the Adobe Online Creative Festival presentation.
 

Just a quick post to check whether we’ve integrated FeedBurner correctly…
 

Welcome to GLU and the first official post in this blog!

At time of writing WordPress 2.5.1 has been setup under the main website and fits seamlessly thanks to some fine WP skinning…

WordPress is such a great tool and the UI in the latest Admin is beautiful.