Cliff Hall hosted his “PureMVC Pirate Radio Conference Takeover” tonight, and I must say it was very cool to hear how the framework is being put to the test in production. Technical (Acrobat Connect) difficulties aside, it’s obvious that PureMVC is the real deal.
Thanks guys, for taking the time to talk about [...]
I just read a little about the new beta technology that they have released today called Cocomo. It supposed to solve a bunch of problems, like “real-time social capabilities” and “real-time multi-user applications.” Features of the Cocomo beta include things like whiteboards and chat.
Ok, Adobe. Help me out here. [...]
The concepts introduced around “Web 2.0″ have shifted the way users interact with the web and their data. This presentation is an excellent vision of where the web is going (beyond rich user interfaces)…
I came across an interesting article on Techcrunch that discussed How to Build a Web App in Four Days. I really like this approach, and I’ve always felt it could be extremely successful given the right team and the right environment…
I noticed an idea in the article that I liked so I thought I’d [...]
jottit.com
Good news from Techcrunch:
Adobe has created a special Flash player for the search engines that acts like a virtual user going through each application. It actually goes through the runtime of each Flash application and translates it into something the search engines can understand. So all of those fancy interactive Flash Websites and other rich [...]
This may not be a new technology, but it’s new to me. And, I spent $9.00 calling information last month. So, if you like to call information, but don’t like spending the cash. Check this out:
http://www.google.com/goog411/
Every now and then, there is an idea executed on the internet so well, it could make almost any concept look wonderful. But what if the concept was great to begin with AND was executed flawlessly? This is rare, but a friend of mine turned me onto such a case: Grooveshark.
Grooveshark allows you to search [...]
So Adobe finally released their online version of Photoshop. It is a Flex based RIA called Photoshop Express. While the tool is a very nice tool, it only slightly similar to the desktop version, and IMO doesn’t really deserve the “Photoshop” name. The Express version seems like more of an online photo [...]
Here is a cool link for you to check out.. If you were ever a fan of IPIX this goes a few steps further!
Immersive Media
www.searchme.com
http://www.thepocketgeek.com/
Pretty interesting Flash game/site which seems to fall in with “The Sims” or one of those virtual pet-type websites. It’s a fun idea, but the audio gets annoying real quick so you’ll probably want to toggle it off.
http://robobrawl.com/
This little gem definitely takes the cake as “site of the month.” RoboBrawl, promotional minisite for Intel Xeon, is very well executed on so many fronts - user experience, design, illustration, typography, animation, usability, sound, music… it’s the total package. Build a robot, fight in matches, upgrade your weapons, and challenge friends to a full-on [...]
MINUIT
http://www.minuit.co.nz/
Cool site. I love the illustrative style and the game-like play. The overall concept reminds me a lot of Red Interactive, which is an awesome site. It was launched about a year ago, but since then they’ve added several extras.
RED INTERACTIVE
http://www.ff0000.com/
The ASTRA website (Yahoo/Flash Developer Center) sums it up best:
ASTRA, the ActionScript Toolkit for Rich Applications, is a collection of Flash and Flex components, code libraries, toolkits and utilties developed by Yahoo! for ActionScript developers. These libraries available under the terms of the open source BSD license.
Yahoo has built components that are available for Flex [...]
simplifyyourwork2008.com
So you’re telling me there’s a Microsoft site out there that is clean, simple, creative, AND playful? Is the universe ripping apart at the seams? But I guess they only get partial credit because the site is targeting Mac users.
The Ultrashock community has been a big inspiration for me over the years. I haven’t spent as much time on their site lately, but I used to really enjoy reading through their forums.
A site upgrade may have been long overdue, but they have certainly outdone themselves this time around. They have [...]
I follow Ryan Stewart’s blog. He is well versed in Flex and other RIA technologies, and is employed at Adobe as an RIA Evangelist. His opinions are generally not heavily weighted in Adobe’s favor. There were no big surprises here, but it’s nice to know that we’re moving the right direction.
His post [...]
Cool idea for a physics game. I’m not sure how it could be used, but it’s crazy addictive even at an early stage.
Thought you guys might be interested to know about a cool usage of Papervision3D I just found. They are first person shooter environments.
Click the top two links on that page and use the following keys for control:
Mouse click and move - look around
e - walk forward
d - backward
s - strafe left
f - strafe right
http://www.uski365.com/
I don’t know if you guys have checked out VW.com lately, but I did last night, and I’m thoroughly impressed. Anywhere you go on the site, you will find an equally immersive environment full of smooth animation, and rarely a seam anywhere. This site is the kind of quality we should strive for.
Check it out! Unusual use of technology.
Need to ask Buddy if we can get one…
The Flex Bug and Issue Management System is now available publicly for the Flash community. Adobe has opened the doors on the internal development efforts and provided a powerful tool for [...]
I’ve been messing with the Google Custom Search functionality lately and so far I’m impressed.
It is a very useful for your site to add on if you don’t have strong search capabilities (and I’m sure it wouldn’t hurt your sites indexing as well.)
One of the uses that I think it might have would be to [...]
Adobe has replaced the “Apollo” codename with Adobe Integrated Runtime, or AIR. AIR M4 build is now available on the Adobe Labs site. Adobe has added improved support for HTML as an application base. As I mentioned in an earlier post, AIR also includes integrated SQLLite database for storing data while the [...]
