Mike, Jamie and I had a great time at MAX in Chicago this week. Bringing home the MAX Award in the video category for the HBO Voyeur site was a high point, especially when the emcee announced me as Jeff Hirsch when I went up to accept the lucite brick trophy. Read on for some of other highlights for me.

Share
A new file sharing service that will live at share.adobe.com. This service allows sharing of a variety of file types, 1 gig of storage, access control by file, and more all in a slick Flash interface. It is in beta now, but may not be accepting new registrations.

Buzzword
Adobe announced it will acquire Virutal Ubiquity, makers of the incredible app Buzzword – a full featured word processor built on the Flash platform. Good bye Word, and good riddance.

Adobe Developer Connection
Adobe relaunched their previously mediocre at best developer resource site as the all new Adobe Developer Connection. Nice Ajax interface and a new effort to keep content fresh are both promising. A good place to start is Jamie’s tutorial about building a game in AIR with Flash.

C/C++ in Flash
At the ‘Sneak Peeks’ session which involves Adobe showing features they are working on which may or may not end up in future products, an engineer presented a technology which converts C/C++ code to Actionscript 3. He didn’t get to deep into details, but this could conceivably allow for things like including a php compiler in a swf. But the most impressive demo, and most practical in my opinion, he showed was a full version of Quake running in the Flash Player at full speed, with custom flash animations for certain game events. holy crap.

Here is a page with video of some of the sneaks, including the C/C++ in Flash demo.

Check out Adobe Labs for more news and downloads including new betas of AIR, FlexBuilder 3 (which has a kickass new profiler for checking memory usage and performance in Flex/Flash apps), Adobe Media Player (AMP), Adobe Image Foundation Toolkit (create custom bitmap filters for Adobe apps) and more.