Remember a few months ago (3 to be more exact), I blogged that I published my Interactive Label Widget on the Adobe Captivate Exchange. Well, after 9 months of inactivity, Adobe finally decided to published new widgets on it. Yeah! That was what I thought so until I realized that they only published a handful of widgets and that my mine wasn’t one of them.

I suspect that they went and upgraded the exchange only to publish their own Twitter widget. They also published about 5 other widgets, most of them belonging to Micheal over at www.cpguru.com. I’m sure that they wouldn’t have published any other widgets if Michael wasn’t such an exceptional contributor to the Captivate platform.

So, at the end, I’m slowly starting to think that the Captivate Exchange is a joke. The Captivate community will grow and the tool become more powerful as developers start creating widgets. Without a window to expose their work, developers will not be interested into putting more time to create widgets. It is very sad that Adobe doesn’t see this. It doesn’t require a lot of man power to keep the site up to date and publish new widgets every 2 to 4 weeks.

Honestly, I was expecting more from the Exchange with the Cp5 release. I wrote to Adobe a few days ago and did not receive any feedback yet … not even an acknowledgment.

Please adobe, wake up and surf the Cp5 hype before it’s too late …