http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/dale-rankines-forum-nokia-blog A Forum Nokia Blog <p> <img src="http://www.australianit.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5945753,00.jpg" alt="Dale Rankine - Moket" hspace="10" vspace="10" width="314" height="199" align="right" />G'day from Australia everyone. My name is Dale, and this is my first post here as a Forum Nokia Champion. I'm very pleased to have been invited and accepted into the Champions program, which is obviously growing a little bit at the moment :) </p> <p> A little about myself ... </p> <p> I'm the CEO and founder of a company here called <a href="http://www.moket.com" target="_blank">Moket</a>. We're a Flash Lite development company and have been working at the coalface of Flash Lite for the past 4 years or so. As well being a Forum Nokia Champion, I'm an Adobe Community Expert (Mobile), Adobe Ambassador, and Adobe Certified Instructor (Flash Lite). When I'm not in the office in Brisbane working on content and applications, I travel the world conducting training courses and speaking at events for companies like Adobe, Nokia and Lynda.com. </p> <p> I've been a speaker at the <a href="http://www.webdu.com.au" target="_blank">webDU</a> conference in Sydney for the past 4 years, and this November will be the third <a href="http://max.adobe.com/na" target="_blank">Adobe MAX</a> (North Amercia) conference that I have presented at - all on Flash for mobile devices. </p> <p> It's a great time to be involved with Flash Lite. For many years now there have been a number of barriers to the fast growth that I believe Flash Lite is starting to experience now, and I for one am glad about the nature of things to come in 2009 and beyond. Back in 2006, Moket was one of the first companies to have Flash Lite content (our game called &quot;Whack Attack&quot;) to be bundled with new Nokia Devices (the 6131 S40 device in Singapore to be exact). A lot has happened since that time, including the continued and growth of support for Flash Lite from Nokia. Recently, <a href="http://www.nokia.com/A4126233" target="_blank">Moket was featured</a> by Forum Nokia in their Media and Games section. </p> <p> I'll most likely be posting here about Flash Lite in the market and many of the business opportunities and developments that emerge for Flash developers in the mobile space. We have some great products being released shortly in the game space which will also rate a mention and some analysis of here, as well as a report from our appearance in the Gaming Lounge of the upcoming <a href="http://www.nokiagamessummit.com/" target="_blank">Nokia Games Summit</a> in Rome (Oct 29-30). </p> <p> Looking forward to participating further in the community as a Forum Nokia Champion! </p> <p> Dale. </p> http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/dale-rankines-forum-nokia-blog/2008/10/13/greetings-its-good-to-be-here Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:47:11 +0300