OK - so I ‘m stuck blogging, waiting for my family to get back from Church (Unitarian-Universalist) so we can go have dim sum.

I started this post on “What Adobe should do” after seeing that they previewed online versions of Photoshop.  How long did that take them to figure out - what?  Five years?  Ten years?

The message was ‘created in Flash’ - but needless to say I’m sure it was created with Flex - which actually might be the underlying reason why Macromedia merged wih Adobe.  I won’t go off on my ‘Flex is a stolen Laszlo’ meme - but I will say that building on-line apps is important and I’m glad to see Adobe converting not only Photoshop. but also Premiere to on-line versions.  Is Illustrator next?

I’m sure they’ll cripple them and NOT let them canabalize their desktop parents, but I’ve been waiting for a decent image editor on-line - and maybe this will finally give me that functionality.

Here’s an idea.

Imagine if Adobe went and open sourced all the Flex components used to build Photoshop, Premiere and Illustrator?  A whole new generation of on-line editing tools would be baked into into social media apps and a wholenew level fo functionality would flower and propser!

The Flex develoepr community would quadruple (no x10) and then all they’d need is a baked in social network and a people’s marketplace to buy and sell assets, textures, backgrounds, beats, 3D models, stock phoots and video, etc.

So when some artist is stuck at 3 AM and needs help they can:

    - go onto the social net and ask for help

- or wave a $100 bill and ask for help.

Take that and put it into your business model pipe and smoke it.

If Adobe doesn’t do this - perhaps Microsoft will with Silverlight.  However they need to make sure that if you right click on a Silverlight ‘object’, you can copy it and put it onto the clipboard (Ray’s LIVE clipboard no less) and paste it into your blog post, social network or even backup storage.

This is one of the things I told Laszlo to do 4 years ago - but they ain’t Adobe or Microsoft.

Or maybe Avid should do it.  Nah!  Avid doesn’t have a clue!

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