Apollo

I have finally taken in some on the apollo frenzy that seems to be gripping various different locations around the web on adobes new apollo platform, and boy does it look interesting.

Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop.

This really does look impressive as you now have a development framework that can harness the power of the local system and the real time dynamism from using web based data.

Gota look more into this as there are a host of videos already out there on the web detailing what all the buzz is about