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It seams that GUGGA finally made a well deserved breakthrough. After so many years of hard work we manage to create an application that people really appreciate. Bamboo Paper reached 1.000.000 downloads in 11 days and people keep talking about it. Probably the most interesting part of it was that it was GUGGA's first IPAD app. I can only imagine what we can do with the next ones :)It seams that

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GUGGA and WACOM won the Adobe MAX 2010 award in the social computing category for the Bamboo Dock platform.We know how to win and we know how to party. Meet the team:

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After 10 years of working with the flash platform and 3 years for our country to be allowed to submit for Adobe MAX we are a finalist in the Adobe MAX 2010 competition in the social media category for our work with WACOM on the Bamboo Dock project.I'm both proud and a little tired that it took so much time to get here.Big thank you to the team and to everyone ever worked in GUGGA you should be

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Video: Patent Absurdity - Dokumentarfilm (28:54)

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After 6 months work a lot of push and tremendous enthusiasm GUGGA released its first product inTouch, a cross platform facebook desktop client that hopes to introduce a different unobtrusive , less noisy and much more elegant and pleasing way to use Facebook. We put a great deal of attention to details and refinement as oppose to focusing on adding more and more features. We optimized inTouch to

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After two years pushing for this Bulgaria is finally in the list of eligible countries to submit for Adobe MAX awards.

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Today I had a boiled conversation with a colleague about how the browser war is actually about the same thing the OS wars are about and that the they are becoming the next OS. Spooky enough Google just announced the next OS which is guess what ?....a browser based OS and everything that is on it isn't because its on the Internet ...My guess the only good thing about it is that it is Open Source .

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When you have seen over couple of thousand movies in your life you think you've seen it all. From action to hearth breaking and life changing statements but this one managed to sneak up on me. Funny it always happens when you never expect it. Maybe you have to be in certain stage in your life for a movie like this to really make an impression on you. Maybe if I seen this one and did not have kids

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Charter for Compassion

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Speaker, author, and entrepreneur Eric Ries shares rapid fire wisdom on building nimble, responsive, and efficient online software-based businesses. He also offers his wisdom on streamlining processes and progressing engineering systems, and puts forth front line insight into why some new ideas succeed where others have failed.

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What Is The Minimum Viable Product?View more documents from Venture Hacks .

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A very inspirational video by the lead Mozilla UX designer Aza Raskin thanks to npraceto. You-Centric: A Sketch of The Future of Browsers. Now you can see how things can change when designers are truly back in the game and the organizations allow them to do their job."The matching of content(nouns) to services(verbs) and services to content is the next big business model on the web"You-Centric:

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I recently had a presentation about UX during design day in Sofia. Now I stumbled upon this:http://vimeo.com/6952223 . Jesse James Garrett said everything I wanted to say in my intro about UX only in a much more structured, elegant and eloquent way. It's some time discouraging to hear people like him talk as you realize how far behind are you. None the less I would rather try and be inspired

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I was invited personally by Boril Karaivanov to speak to the Bulgarian Web Awards about the Flash Platform. Usually I'm pretty skeptical when it comes to anything related to the Bulgarian Software Industry but from time to time I like to check to what extent things have evolved. I have to say that things have changed for the better significantly. Besides meeting Boril in person which by it self

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We managed to organize a second Flex Camp in Sofia. Its cool to see how the industry actually changes and for the better. Last year most of the people were still learning what Flex is and what the Flash platform is capable of. This year was a totally different audience you can see on their faces and the questions they ask the remarks they do that companies are already using the technology and

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For me, watching a good movie is one of a kind experience. I keep watching movies searching for that true one of a kind experience.When I first saw Will Smith in the "Pursuit of happiness" I thought, interesting he is really on to something. Tonight I saw a film that really shacked me as a person. Something that I have almost given up upon on Hollywood but boy I was wrong. I don't want to go

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Reading this interview, with the people that created , nurtured and grow one of the companies that I respect the most, Adobe, you can learn a lot about how you should and shouldn't do business. Thanks to Rostislav ( the creator of SWF address) for sharing this with me. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2038

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I ask this question my self over and over again when we create new software applications. Finally I found one that is hands down working because I saw my 2 and half year old working with it :)

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GUGGA team has created yet another successful RIA, BambooSpace. This time collaborating with WACOM the worlds largest pen tabled provider. The idea is to enable people to create , share and distribute information with ease and to enable pen tablet users to be even more creative and collaborative. With this post I want to thank everyone in our team for their hard work and great dedication to

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Bombay Sapphire was by far the most complex piece of RIA we have build to date. It sounds very simple maybe even plane but behind it are countless hours of work of all the best minds we have in our team at GUGGA. This really was a team effort. At some point the whole team was focused on delivering this beautiful , rich experience , this little monster that at some points seamed beyond our reach

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The world is changing. Finally Its no longer about me sitting on my desktop at home or how do I show someone my loved once through a web browser at work behind a corporate firewall or can you check the weather on your cell phone. Its about YOU and YOUR ability to access YOUR information, YOUR media , YOUR experiences , YOUR memories, YOUR feelings , YOUR work , YOUR play and be able to do it

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I think I'm on to something. Something that I like very much about my work and that keeps me loving what I do at work everyday. Slowly and painfully our work, enthusiasm and example are changing the landscape and more and more people involved in creating software in Bulgaria are turning their faces to Rich Internet Applications and how they can change the world we live in . Every day little by

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I'm glad to share with you all that something of great significance has happend. The first Flex Camp event in Bulgaria went fantastic. I was able to organize with the particiaption of Adobe the first major event related to Flex in Bulgaria. Adobe was kind enough to include Sofia in there tight schedule and we had a guest Serge Jespers, a technical evangelist join us and tell us about Flex and AIR

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You have to be patient with this one... its a very long video but its very well worth it. Don't skip, just take the time and take a look at it and absorb. You will feel enriched. It is a dead men comedy show, but if he has the strength to entertain you while he is dying then we have absolutely no excuse to be lame, arrogant or lazy with our lives.I urge you to take a look at this video. I insist.

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This is probably one of the most interesting stories I have heard about how technology can be used to create something of real value and just one more proof how it changes our lives inadvetantly. Its the story about how Robert Scoble and Shel Israel wrote a book called "Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers". Scoble's blog was started in 2000 and now

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For all of you who now what a great Mind Mapping Software can do there is a now or at least looks like a full featured version of one called Mindomo. Go ahead and check it out. I have been speculating for a long time in my head that it definitely needs to be such a piece of software and it needs to be written in Flex off course and there you go things are happening faster then a blink of the eye.

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Have you been in a situation where you are driving in the fast lane and you see some one blinking with his lights in your mirror. You move out and some passes you by like you are standing still. This is how I felt today after 7 years working for the Internet as a medium and having a business that is focused on delivering RIA's. What did we miss while making applications that "work" and spend

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Exactly when you think there isn't a lot of things that can wow you in terms of user interface and interaction design ...well here is one ..Its called ZUI ....Zoomable User InterfaceObviously its not completely revolutionary but its really interesting direction to explore and not just for mobile applications ...so here it isP.S. I also recommend looking at the PS3 navigation system

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Today I've learned more stuff from an Intellectual Property Layer about the Industry trends then from any of my recent conversations,blog readings or news sites.Yes the truth is, this is not a regular lawyer but the top patent lawyer of IBM but never the less, the analysis that he is laying out on industry trends, the level of understanding and the simple and understandable language he uses to

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While browsing the Boston Flash Platform Group. I found a reply from the LA Flash Platform group that had suggested their list of books for software architecture in the context of Design Patterns. Yes these guys have a user group and actively discuss the application of Design Patterns for the Flash Platform. And they even have Brightcove host the next meeting. Can you imagine what it would be to

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(това е небуквален превод на пост-а ми на английски за българската аудитория)Ако сте българска компания занимаваща се с разработка на софтуер или решения за Интернет, работеща с продукти на Adobe, има всички шансове да сте чували за световно известното съзтезание Adobe Max Awards. Ежегодното съзтезание MAX Awards припознава най-добрите от най-добрите в света на интерактивни приложения, създадени

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If you are a Bulgarian Web agency or a software development company working with Adobe products chances are you have heard about the world famous Adobe Max Awards.The annual MAX Awards recognizes the best of the best uses of Adobe software for creating engaging experiences. Wow, you would think a world competition, and you can submit your work for recognition in the whole world. Imagine what it

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I'm stunned. I mean I'm speechless ....You have to see this to believe itIf this is going to be my daughter when she is 14 oh boy ....how do I keep with her.Look at this kid ....the way he speaks about technology , economics , products , user experience ....Most of the people I know with a technology background do not have that understanding of the world of technology.

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I had an interesting experience with a new social networking service deployed in the Bulgarian web space called Tutmanik. I had the pleasure to experience first hand how professionals from the web industry do not listen to their end customers and actually dismiss their opinion as if you are an ignorant lamer and they have a divine intervention in what they do and how they do it.I started to use

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After a consecutive yearly research in the Bulgarian web space looking for A people that actually have something meaningful to say, this time I found an interesting post about hiring new people for a company that pushed me for this post. The quintessential of it was that "A people hire A people, B people hire C people". There is something religious about this sentence besides the fact that its

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Couple of months ago Grand Skinner started a discussion about Flash vs Silverlight. Well maybe not so much about those two technologies them selfs but more about the companies and their approach behind creating an eco system around those technologies.And indeed MS and Adobe have completely different approach. Someone said that design as a discipline is in the DNA of Adobe as a company and

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I have been keeping my eye for a while now (the last 2 year) on the increasing popularity of social networks. Most notably there business application and significance. The every increasing speed of life and the ever growing number of tasks we have to undertake compress the time that we have so much that it literally leaves no room to establish new contacts unless off course you make this a big

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This is the question that have bothered me for the past 6 months ever since we have successfully created and launched the first Flex application in Gugga, the Content Management System for the new Dewars Platform and seeing how powerful Flex is.Is it crazy to think that Flex can be used for creating highly engaging and interactive marketing web sites. On one side Flex has been marketed as Rich

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I felt obligated to start with this commentary so there are no misunderstandings. I finally feel like I need a personal space where I can share my professional and personal inclinations with the rest of the world and to search for some fellow thinkers. I have been touched in a lot of ways by technology. I would like to be regarded as a technologist and an enabler, a person helping others to do

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