Obervations on Apollo

Adobe just announced that it’s much anticipated Apollo platform is now
available for developers. The software developers kit can be downloaded at adobe.com/go/apollo.

I honestly believe that entirely new classes of companies can be
built on this platform, which takes Flash, HTML and javascript completely
outside of the browser and interacts with the file system on a PC. Photos,
music, email and many other everyday tasks make a lot of sense in a single
environment that is both local and in the cloud simultaneously. There is going
to be a lot of creativity coming off of this platform over the near term.

This is what was reported over at Techcrunch.com. Hmmm.. that got me thinking, When did all this stuff start ? I mean which were the first softwares , using this technology developed ? Which was the first Popular software whch used this.

Guess what?? It must be the Instant messengers. Think about it.

Take the example of the Yahoo messenger, It uses a Flash script , might be using javascript ...et al..

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