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Contest: Win festival passes to FITC 2012 in Toronto
The newly re-branded FITC is only two months away. While the acronym once stood for Flash in the Can, the series of worldwide conferences and seminars now stands for Future. Innovation. Technology. Creativity and expects to attract more than a thousand attendees from around the world to the three-day festival which begins April 23rd. Festival passes start at $599 but thanks to FITC organizers we have two passes to give away to lucky blogTO readers.
FITC Toronto will feature over 70 renowned digital creators from around the globe. Attendees will be privy to the knowledge of the best and brightest in the digital space. Covering everything from HTML5 to making digital art, this three day festival will inspire you to create in new and innovative ways.
HOW TO WIN
Want to win a FITC Toronto festival pass? Just follow these instructions:
Step 1: On Twitter, tweet why we should choose you as the winner. Make sure to include a link to this post as well as the hashtag #FITCBLOGTO
Step 2: Follow @blogto so that we can contact you via direct message on Twitter if you're the winner.
And that's it! Make sure to complete the above two steps by 5pm on Monday February 20th. We will then select and contact the winners by the end of next week. The winners will be selected at random from the tweets that include the details listed above. Please note: Winners must be Ontario residents, 19+ and provide us will a phone number and working email address.
Not a winner? Use discount code blogTO to get 10% off your FITC Toronto tickets.
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There's no reason for anyone to hate on a technology simply because they made the conscious decision to buy a product that does not support it (like most people who have become very vocal about their dislike of Flash since iOS devices came around).
Get off your high horse. Flash has brought a lot to the industry. The web experience of the late 90s and early 00s wouldn't have been the same without it. Also, we wouldn't have learned a lot of our own mistakes had we not gone through that phase of the internet.
FITC has not been solely about Flash for a long time and the recent rebranding has been in the works for years.
Why the heck did it take FITC so long to rebrand? Years?
Adobe Air is still going to be around for a while. Do you use any applications built with Air?
That said, you aren't paying $500 to go see the organizers talk but to see all the great presenters that they are bringing to Toronto.
As others have pointed out for years the conference has been covering other technologies like Unity3D, Processing even Slightlight a few years ago. Taking a quick look at the presentations they have up so far, it seems to be the majority of it is HTML5, not Flash. This isn't a big switch for them but what FITC was already doing and in part a reflection of what has been happening with the tech industry.
That said, I think Flash still has a long life to it, it will just be a bit more niche. Rivio just launched Angry Birds on Facebook and despite already having a HTML5 version of the game for Google's Chrome Store, Rivio's new version of Angry Birds is all Flash. As they obviously don't care about mobile with Angry Bird native apps on just about every mobile OS. It seems for their Facebook game they were interested in as wide of a reach as possible, supporting old browsers without having to deal with browser inconsistencies.
So areas like gaming and video (either content that needs DRM protection or something advance like peer-to-peer streaming) Flash will still likely hold onto.
Newer technology is being driven by new standards, and maybe older methods will become less common, but both are useful and should be continued to be expanded upon.
Flash is brilliant and terribly abused, but HTML5 is cool and difficult to pick up. Now what?