Adobe Pilots a Blogging Tool
Adobe Labs is working on a concept project called NoteTag that allows users to capture notes during meetings and assign tasks within those notes to individuals. NoteTag can turn the notes around and post them to a blog or del.icio.us and tag them. The product also supports RSS. You can watch a screencast of NoteTag or track the project on their blog.
NoteTag right now is a test and it's complex to install but I can easily see Adobe eventually making a big splash in the blogging space since their heritage is publishing and design (Adobe is a client of A&R Edelman). (Via What's the Next Action)
Actually, if Adobe were to move into blogging, buy versus build is a much smarter strategy.
A plug-in for other services works, and that's what they have done. Look at how well PDF works for Adobe, and how everyone uses Acrobat for secure documents.
Now, would this even be on your radar if Adobe were not a long-standing client of A&R?
Posted by: Jeremy Pepper | Saturday, May 27, 2006 at 11:02 PM
Of course it would, Jeremy. They are a huge company.
Posted by: Steve Rubel | Saturday, May 27, 2006 at 11:05 PM
Jeremy, they are already doing so.
They got Macromedia, now they are implementing blogging capabilities in Contribute 4.0 which is still in beta.
Steve, thanks for the info.
Posted by: Amit Agarwal | Sunday, May 28, 2006 at 07:23 AM