Flash Player Taking the Web by Storm

The FlashForward mini-conference started Monday at MacWorld.  Aral Balken attended and has a great writeup of the interesting content from the keynote.  A small, but important, bit of information that Aral noted from one of the presentations:

Flash Player 9 is projected to reach over 70% penetration in its first six months. In comparison, Flash Player 8 took 9 months to reach over 80% and Flash Player 7 took twelve months to break 70% penetration. Basically, the adoption rate of the Flash Player is accelerating with each player release and continues to do so with Flash Player 9.

As Ryan Stewart notes, that is an incredible increase in the adoption rate of a new version of Flash Player.  It is a great indicator of how important Flash is becoming for web sites, web-based applications, and other online activities.