Adobe V/S Envato concerning Flash.
Envato is a renowned name in the web design world. Why? Just because they have some of the best tutorial websites in all the possible fields concerning design and web design. Adobe doesn’t have to be presented, it being one of the world’s IT Megalosaurus. Now, among all its educational websites, Envato had FlashDen, which was the web’s most prominent and precious tutorial base for Flash… the famous Adobe application.
However, as from yesterday. The site is no longer called FlashDen. A whole community of flash users, developers and tutors were just taken aback by a sudden surge from Adobe which simply ordered the web company to change its site’s name under the ruling that Flash was a registered trade mark. Ok with that. But… and there’s a “big but…” FlashDen was one of the most advanced sites and the world’s largest marketplace on Flash. What it was doing was promoting Flash and Flex, which are Adobe technologies that we, web designers, tend to avoid. I’m not meaning that I’ve turned Flash-addict in a day but that Adobe seems to be trying to cut a branch on which it is sitting.
True enough, the site’s name change will not affect the quality of the content delivered by the FlashDen (now called ActiveDen) authors but it is just a sort of questioning about some sort of abuse in authority by Adobe. As the information runs, “FlashDen” is registered as trade mark in Australia for Envato. I think that they just didn’t want to go further in the confrontation with Adobe.
Anyhow, you now know that you just don’t need to have the word “Flash” in your domain name if you want to keep it.
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Sachin D. Brojmohun has extensive experience in terms of graphic design, CSS integration, usability and accessibility as well as in SEO. More about him and the Web Design Bureau of Mauritius here: Web Design Mauritius.
well that’s sad esp coming from Adobe… I mean am not in the web design field so kinda alien language LOL but if Flashden was just about tutorial and not a direct competitor then its not a big issue…. well it will be Adobe image who might get some negative effect from Flashden or ActiveDen Fan…cheers
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On the other hand, no technology has ever replaced Flash. This somehow gives Adobe the monopoly and also the whole range of action it has without being concerned or not by the notoriety of the company.