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Technology Stocks : Macromedia...making a comeback? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Dowdell who wrote (2394)	1/15/1999 8:24:00 AM
From: alex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2675

Nothing about Flash 4? When? How? Where? They said it'll release at the start of this year... tnk alex capponi

To: John Dowdell who wrote (2394)	1/15/1999 10:33:00 PM
From: David Hagerty	Respond to of 2675

I also stopped by the Totally Hip booth and ran into some Macromedia people and then some Adobe people and many Apple and Microsoft people later on. As for starting with your name, my apologies. I guess I am learning some netiquette on the threads. I asked THW if they knew you and the CEO had kind words to say about you. He said you have been around for quite some time and know your stuff in multimedia tools like the back of your hand. On why you could get the product. Totally Hip was stopped at the boarder on Monday Jan 3rd and the US customs officials said they would put the THW employees or the two management guys in jail if they sold product on the show floor. Some engineers were turned back at the boarder. A number of Canadian companies had this ahppen to them trying to go to MacWorld. Some dispute between Washington DC and Ottawa over Canadian Clture limiting US goods into Canad. So a retaliation thing I guess. Read in in the Globe & Mail from Canada. I was a tester or should I say, I am a LiveStage tester so I got my full copy of LS DR 1.0 at the booth amd my LS T-shirt. I just got a new copy of LS today (Testers only). Real Cool stuff. The beta of WebPainter 3.2 now does a real neat conversion of all bitmaps to vectors instantly for use in LiveStage so you can create real small interactive movies. You must not have known or THW didn't tell you that you could have picked up LiveStage DR 1.0 at the Dev Depot. They managed to bypass the US Customs problem by letting a US reseller sell it for them. I called THW a few days ago, and I hear sales are brisk for LiveStage. I saw TAG and Lari Electifier. Not to interested. Too much for too little. No flexibility like in LiveStage. LiveStage is more powerful and LS 2.0 is in the works right now. Based on how quick they did LS 1.0, 2.0 is sure to be hot and out this year. I have made a ton off of my Macromedia investments and I just feel that Totally Hip is a sure thing to bet on for the low investment risk, because they will probably get bought out by a Macromedia competitor or maybe even Macromedia will take them out before Microsoft or Adobe or Quark. I saw the THW CEO with some key Microsoft people at the show and heard he was meeting with Corel and Adobe. From what I saw, heard from other LiveStage users and can do with LiveStage today, Flash has some serious competition. And the new bitmap to vector conversion on WebPainter 3.1 is hot. WP 3.1 already has vector drawing tools and now you can simply convert a whole set of bitmap or gif or jpeg images to vectors for use in LiveStage with a mouse click. And I hear THW is building a full vector tool like Freehand all based on QuickTime. LiveStage 1.0 is different and more powerful than Electrifier, but is also even complementary to both it and TAG, but LiveStage 2.0 will be easier to use than 1.0, more flexible and will do everything that Electrifier and TAG will do, so why bother with them. I saw the design docs for LS 2.0 at the show because I am a tester and have input into it, and it is hot. LS 1.0 is cool, and LS 2.0 is my dream tool for interactive Web graphics. Real small files with full music, midi etc, and considerably more interactivity than Flash 3. Actually tons more. LS 2.0 will do even more. Just the same, Macromedia is still one of my investments that I am very pleased with lately, but some MM investors are like me, they'll hedge their bets that THW will be a ten banger this year. It doesn't have to go up too much to have that happen. $8.00 CDN. I just hope Adobe doesn't buy them out. That will concern me about my Macromedia investment. They bought GoLive and they might just want Totally Hip for LiveStage because they have nothing that competes with Flash in the rich media space. THW is Canadian at 80 cents or 50 cents USD right now and they are being featured on a major investment news show on Sat Jan 16, on Investors Online, a popular Canadian investment show. The URL for LiveFeed is ioltv.com