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At this year’s MAX North America Adobe showcased a number of new services. One of which was Adobe Share, which is currently in beta. The premise is pretty simple. Adobe Share allows you to upload files, including ZIPs, image files, PDFs, etc., and share them in a number of ways. You can share files with only certain people, make it available publicly, embed the file in a web page, or share a link to the file. It also acts as a handy viewer for PDFs and other files. Pretty straight forward.

I thought I’d check it out, so I signed up and started using it. It’s come in pretty handy and I’ve started using it regularly. One thing I’d like to be able to do is share something with someone and give that person the ability to share it with other people. I tried doing that and it didn’t work. Maybe I missed something.

Anyway, the more I played around with it I started thinking about the other services Adobe is going to be rolling out soon and the services that they already have out there. Of course my mind started to wander and I put together a some directions I could see Adobe Share going. I might be way off, but I think about stuff like this.

Online Version of Bridge
If you’re not familiar with Adobe Bridge, it’s a desktop application that integrates with Adobe’s CS3 products and allows you to manage files on your desktop. Well, Adobe is gradually adding online application offerings, including Photoshop Express, Premiere Express, Kuler and now Buzzword, and I’m thinking more are on the way.

Imagine being in Adobe Share and able to open/edit an image in Photoshop Express which then goes back into Share or on to your desktop. Or maybe open some video clips and merge them together in Premiere Express, or save a video to Share from YouTube. Adobe Share would be an online repository for any media you might want to keep track of and share.

Expandable File Repository
What if there was an option to bring all my Flickr photos, or some of them, into Share to use in other ways. Like bring them into Photoshop Express. Maybe import my YouTube videos in to share to remix in Premier Express. Basically options to bring in files from any other location to be managed in one place.

Then I could create media “groupings” and share that with other people. On a blog it might be something like a slide show, or have a navigator to view different files. You could embed something that would allow you to share, say files regarding a snowboard trip you just took. Images of the mountain, video of you in the halfpipe, an itinerary, maybe an audio clip of you on an ambulance ride after breaking your ankle, could all be shared via one embedded object.

Remote Access
How about the ability to access items in your Adobe Share account from your desktop. Like open an image from your Share account in Photoshop. Maybe even a tab in Bridge called “Share” where you could grab your files. I know one of the reasons for Share is to reduce using bandwidth to share files, so something like this would definitely defeat that purpose.

Maybe I could view shared images and video on my desktop using Adobe Media Player. Then, someone could almost create their own “channel” using Visual Communicator and Premiere. Viewers could watch the videos that person created by accessing that person’s Share account.

Add Some Voice
Another service mentioned at MAX was “Pacifica”, a VoIP solution for Flash. It might be cool to see “Pacifica” integrated some how, maybe in the file viewer portion.

Anyway, it’s really great seeing some of the directions the web is going, not just Adobe. It’s definitely a great time to be involved with all this stuff.

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