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Maybe Adobe will invest a few bucks in making the code/documentation behind Omniture's tracking system less like beholding something from an H.P. Lovecraft nove
by amadiver 17y ago
Maybe Adobe will invest a few bucks in making the code/documentation behind Omniture's tracking system less like beholding something from an H.P. Lovecraft novel.
- bonaldi 17y agoYep, the marketdroids running Adobe are definitely going to invest money in R&D and improving their code. Look at CS4! Oh, right. Definitely seems like a baffling move from the outside, but to be honest virtually everything Adobe's done in the past few years has been bizarre and counter-productive. Frustrating, because skunkworks projects like Lightroom (sorry, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom) show that the engineering heart of the company beats on. It's just got arteries clogged with bullshit, nonsense and Flash.
- seldo 17y agoI agree with everything, except that I think Flash is also a great product. FutureSplash Animator (oh, those were the days) was a revolutionary product that blew the crap out of the only other web multimedia solution at the time (which was Shockwave). It was vector based (truly revolutionary in 1996!), small, fast even on computers of the time. Even after the acquisition by Macromedia, the introduction of simple video streaming to Flash completely changed the economics and hence the popularity of online video, which produced YouTube, Hulu, and other game-changer online companies. Since the second acquisition (by Adobe), Flash has been buried under the mountain of bullshit you've mentioned, but Flash was and is a great product, as evidenced by its ubiquity -- 98% of desktops in the world have Flash installed, more than have Microsoft Windows. Pretty amazing stuff.
- bonaldi 17y agoThere are a lot of great products in the Adobe stable -- Photoshop defined an industry, InDesign has redefined one, PDF revolutionised a lot of things (storming barricades put up by Postscript, which is also an Adobe product). The problem is that Adobe's dreadful stewardship means they all go to bloatware shit in the end. Flash may have been a great product, but it certainly isn't anymore. And its ubiquity simply shows the popularity of things people have done with it -- video being the big driver -- and doesn't prove that it is "great", any more than the number of Windows seats prove its greatness. The Flash runtime on the Mac is so poor that even their Flash PR-blogger suggests you get a flashblocker (there are also rumours that ClickToFlash was originally an inside job -- thanks for taking pity on us!) to deal with it. All the while he protests that Adobe doesn't need to do anything to improve it to deal with the challenges of HTML 5, because only "minority" browser vendors care about that, and IE will always be king. He'd better hope so.
- beilabs 17y agoI've been working with on integrating Omniture for the past month or so with a lot of the sites for the company I work for. Everything works, but it's not very intuitive. The Site Catalyst suite needs an overhaul and they really need to spend a lot of time working out how to easily customize report suites, a lot of it is not customizable whatsoever! In my opinion, it's a bloated piece of software, but hey, I'm just a developer.