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Work-Collective - ActiveDen and Activetuts – New Names, Same Awesome Content — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:52:35 +0000

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By: Diego

Diego — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:27:09 +0000

Will Adobe ask to Alex Raymond change the “Flash Gordon” name too? Will they also request to Marvel to change the name of the superhero “Flash Thompson”? Come on!… they do not own the word!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:47:36 +0000

It must pain you and Cyan to change the name of your baby

By: Kendall

Kendall — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:12:39 +0000

Wasn’t FlashDen Envato’s first site? Interesting that they waited until the site got big before paying it any mind whatsoever.

Does this mean that they’re going to go after every other site that refers to Photoshop, Illustrator, or Flash??? Eek…..

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:21:08 +0000

That is pretty absurd of Adobe, although I think the previous commenter is correct in assuming this probably wasn’t a big conspiratorial meeting of minds, but rather one bored desk jockey that contacted Adobe’s lawyer’s to see “hey what can we do here”. And lawyers aren’t PR people, they probably just ran with it.

One thing that comes to mind too is that Adobe is branding everything with “Flash” now. Flash Catalyst, Flash Builder (previous Flex), and of course regular ol’ Flash. Which I think is overbranding. Its fine for us developers that have been familiar with Flash for years, but for new users they are going to be utterly confused about which product to purchase to make Flash content. Some will buy Flex, er Flash Builder and give up after a day of trying to use their Flash training books with the wrong program.

Flashden’s response should have been, ” Sorry Adobe, you misunderstood our domain name. Its pronounced… lashden.com , the F is silent”

By: KNau

KNau — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:57:28 +0000

Wow, nice work Adobe – bringing down the hammer on a site that fosters use of your products.

Maybe it’s time for ActiveDen to host some Silverlight apps.

By: FreelanceShack

FreelanceShack — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:21:09 +0000

Some great templates there! Nice one.

By: RP

RP — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:16:08 +0000

no problem with this…
but seriously it looks like someone at an office sitting and surfing the web one day tough “Hey, is it really ok that some websites use the word “flash” in their domaine name?”
….the software gets some got vibes and the website get a direct name to content… so both sides (Adobe vs FlashDen) gets the good…. so why now ? why undo all this ?
Anyway… just seems like a one-person at Adobe thing to me. Even more when seeing your new tag line including “adobe flash file” seem office word to me.
Just a question : Was it ok to be renamed to FlashyDen.com or FlaDen.com insteed ? Or do they think it was too close to Flash ? And : Are you the only website affected ?
Congrats for FlashDen having so much succes ! Dont read me wrong, i do love adobe

By: Agustin

Agustin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:46:00 +0000

I still can’t understand how some company can claim ownership over a generic word, so if my last name is Flash, I can’t have a site called Flash Design?

I love Adobe, Adobe’s stuff, how it handles it’s PR and how us, layman, are generally treated.

But this case reminds me of FlashObject, now called SWFobject, I think Envato people handled the “request” rather graciously.

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