my litl adventures

There’s a online e-seminar litl developers event next week.

We’re emailing you as we are hosting a mandatory SDK webinar next week. We are holding this session twice (at varied times) in order to make sure that our incentive developers are up to speed on the latest and greatest technologies are available in the litl SDK.

Essential Topics Include:

• Developing for the TV
• Remote Management
• Litl Helper Classes
• Updates to the Simulator

This lab is a great opportunity for us to engage with a group of developers interested in deploying Flash/Flex Channels on the litl platform. We’ll have a good portion of our team on hand to work directly with you, doing a live walk through of our devices, platform, FAQs and sample channel code.

The sample channel code projects are ready to import into either Flash CS5 or FlashBuilder, so they’re ready-to-run.

After introducing you to the devices, SDK and platform, we’ll help you code your own channels and set you up to deploy them in our Channel store!

Send a request to devsupport@litl.com”> if you are interested in joining.

Via @chuckstar, a post about Flash on TV, 3D, Accelerometer via the Litl set top box at a recent Flash event.

Via (Kathryn Rotondo) : Peter Elst made his slides from Flash on the Beach 2010 available from FOTB 2010 earlier this week:

litl posted a demo of animated Papervision sphere controlled by the litl remote.

The 3-D interaction is sent from the litl via the HDMI out to a large display.

One of the obvious areas litl may play a significant part in the future once the litl media box is deployed is (casual) gaming. What better tool for this, then Flash.

litl papervision3D example from developer.litl.com on Vimeo.

Apparently litl is giving a talk at Adobe MAX 2010 in October. Here are the (early) details:

Authoring Flash Experiences for Every Room in the House

Chuck Freedman (blog, Twitter)

Open, multi-player games and HD Video in the living room, interactive cooking in the kitchen, DIY guides in the garage and even storytime are just some of the ways users and families are now experiencing Flash content throughout the home. Chuck Freedman (@chuckstar | chuckstar.com/blog), Flash platform expert and Chief Channel Evangelist at litl, will show you how Flash content plays on many cool, in-home devices from Sony, Nintendo, litl and more, exploring why creators should take special note of different form factors, simplified user experiences and the new distribution channels that make this an exciting opportunity.

Last week at the Flash and the City conference, litl unveiled their plans for both support of Flash 10.1 in their upcoming SDK, as well as some new hardware they are working on; a settop box and paired touchscreen remote.

There are not many details about this new hardware, other than it’s going to run the litl OS (which is Linux based). Based on my experience with litl, you can bet that this new set of products will be very simple and intuitive to use. Based on their existing webbook, x86 based architecture would make the most sense, and apparently it’ll have HDMI and composite out for HDTV hookup, plus wifi and ethernet connection support.

Here are more pics of the device (from engadget):

With Google’s recent announcement of “web apps” at i/o and also Google TV, things are heating up in the connected “Web TV” space. There are lots of players in this arena (i.e. “digital home”).

This isn’t the 1st time we’ve had the promise of “Web TV”, but I’m pretty confident that things are at a point where the adoption of it will be significantly higher than it was in previous years and with previous products. 2011 will be the year of the “digital home”.