CNN has an interesting article about why there isn't Flash on the iPhone. The article lightly touches on the "Relationship": between Apple and Adobe. Unfortunately, the article makes a huge generalization stating that ;

I was reading the latest Forbes article "No Flash In the Pan" by Dan Frommer, which is peppered with references to Adobe, Apple, On2, as well as osFlash.org (though Dan only referenced the Red5 project) and noticed that all the reference links on the document only point to the Forbes site.  With all the mentions of other companies, you'd think that Forbes could at least provide a sub section of reference links.  They are perfectly willing to put in a stock ticker link that links to their stock lookup page, so its not just an issue of a print based media format being re-purposed for the web. 

Forbes/Dan Frommer, when you write about other sites, at least provide a link to those sites.  Sure we can Google it if we need to, but the whole purpose of hypertext was to make navigation easier for the user.  I'm sure you're reaping the rewards of page ranking when others link to your site, why not return the favor.  I suppose I probably went a bit overboard on linking for this article, but I wanted to prove my point.

Oh, and Forbes, if you're reading this, the MACR symbol is no longer valid.

 Computerworld reported that the U.S. patent office has issued an Office Action that rejected 19 of the 47 claims of the Forgent Networks '672 JPEG patent.  The Public Patent Foundation initiated the request to have the USPTO reexamine the patent. 

Here's hoping that the JPEG patent is completely rejected.   Microsoft's Window Media Photo , which will be built into Vista is Microsoft's new solution that is supposedly superior to JPEG.  Having the patent completely overturned could affect Microsoft's marketing of MWMP since JPEG is so widely adopted.

Apple just announced a price reduction of Aperture from $499 to $299 as well as reports of significant staff reductions of the  Aperture team.  Could Apple be a bit worried about  AdobeLightRoom, which is still in beta?

New Scientist (by way of Slashdot) is reporting on a new patent by Apple where the camera is part of the screen, by embedding the  image sensors between the pixels.  I find this particularly exciting.  My suspension of disbelief when watching Sci-Fi and the like has always wavered a bit whenever one character talks directly to another character on a screen with direct eye contact.

John Dowdell has an interesting viewpoint on Guy Kawasaki's article on How To Suck Up to a Blogger.

First off, Guy Kawasaki is truly an amazing speaker.  He could sell sand in the Sahara.  I was fortunate enough to hear him speak to our group at the Apple Assistance Center in Austin, Texas a few years back.  He owns the title "Evangelist".

Most people can determine if a blog is all about spin or about passion.  As technologists, the passion is usually evident.  I think most people would assume that any corporate supported blog will have some tilt toward the products that the company sells. 

If you thing Schwag is just for Influential bloggers, think again.  It's common practice for inter-company schwag trading of NFR's (Not For Resale products) that share a common interest.  Just go to any computer convention and watch as packages change hands.  For me, that was the best way of supporting my technology addiction, I personally can't afford all those wonderful packages.  

Scwhag (as in product)  is an excellent way for the blogger to gain knowledge on new  technologies that they may not necessarily be exposed to.   If the product deserves a good review, it will get it.  And if you really want to send a T-Shirt, at least check the size of the recipient first.  Sending a X-Large to a 4X guy is rather useless.

The most influential bloggers with the biggest following are those that write about their experience and their passion.  It just comes through in their writing.  As Joseph Campbell put it , "Follow Your Bliss".

Since1968 blogged about  Apple trying to get a patent for touch-sensitive input devices.  Check out flashcomponents.net and navigate to Interfaces/widgets/Jogs/Potentiometer and Jog Knobs.  Run that swf on a touch sensitive screen and you've got a great example of prior art.   The only difference of operation is the skinning of the component.  Adobe should jump into this fight right away and contest Apple's patent submission.