eCommerce Goes Rube Goldberg

h/t to my friend Kadie for this one...

http://producten.hema.nl/

From her eMail:

HEMA is a Dutch department store. The first store opened on November 4, 1926, in Amsterdam . Now there are 150 stores all over the Netherlands . HEMA also has stores in Belgium, Luxemburg, and Germany. In June of 2007, HEMA was sold to British investment company Lion Capital.

Take a look at HEMA's product page. You can't order anything and it's in Dutch but just wait a couple of seconds and watch what
happens.

This company has a sense of humor and a great computer programmer.

Photoshop Express public beta adds Flickr support - Yahoo! News

From the Sorta Kinda Notable But Really Pretty Much Expected Dept.:

"...enhancements to Photoshop Express include the ability to access photos through the popular Flickr service. You can download photos from a Flickr account into Photoshop Express, edit and add effects to them, then send them back to Flickr.

Adobe has also added a new Save As feature that lets you save multiple versions of an image. There's also an embeddable player you can use to post slideshows to Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking Web sites."

Link to Macworld/Yahoo! article

Flashing The Flash: Adobe Opens Up

h/t to Slashdot on this one:

Adobe has opened up their proprietary Flash formats - SWF & FLV to the developer community, removed licensing restrictions for the playback, and is making the mobile player available for free. They are doing to Macromedia's flagship product (since having acquired it 3 short years ago) what they were able to successfully do with PDF.

The Open Screen Project is dedicated to driving consistent rich Internet experiences across televisions, personal computers, mobile devices, and consumer electronics. The Open Screen Project is supported by technology leaders, including Adobe, ARM, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics Inc., Marvell, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Verizon Wireless, and leading content providers, including BBC, MTV Networks, and NBC Universal, who want to deliver rich Web and video experiences, live and on-demand across a variety of devices.

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