Wow - the last days where all a bit quiet, but suddenly there seem to be discussions all over the place: David Emberton opened Pandora's Box when he rambled about "Why the latest Flash hype makes me nervous." on Actionscript.com. This is...

Guy Watson has started some thoughts about selling flash components instead of giving them away for free. Looks like this created quite a reaction... [Via Mesh on MX]...

yhb's postcard collection features a very nice collection of, well, postcard motives. Just the stuff I'd buy at fleemarkets. [Via Everlasting Blort]...

It's update time again for my Amazon Explorer. Finally you get to see a little bit more information about the books and the other stuff. Wow - I'm amazed how fast the text and scrollbar adjust if you drag the little divider...

Ouch! My finger hurts. This game is the greatest idea I came across in a long time: Keyboard Sumo! Be warned - it get's physical. [Via Otherworlds]...

This site has a look that is really original. Great idea, great execution. Definitely worth a visit: blocmedia.com And wait a while for the little surprises. and play the game. [Via K10K]...

It's what inside what counts, isn't it so? Well, not so at HOT or NOT: now you can vote on the beauty of blogs. Their service is still in beta and it seems that the link got out by accident, but still...

Finally I had time for a few updates on my Amazon Explorer. So what's new? - Finally you can also get rid of items. Pressing the Delete or Backspace key will remove all selected items - It is now possible to select...

You can help Mike Chambers to stress-test his Flash Communication Server App. On Wednesday (July 24) at 1pm eastern time he needs a lot of people to join to see how his application handles the bandwidth. The link to the venue will...

Shortly after the update of the Flash plugin to version 6,0,40,0 follows an update to all the developers' players. Download the english version here and non-english versions here. Thanks a lot Macromedia! [Via Mesh on MX]...

Of course this HTML implementation of the Amazon.com search kit is much faster than my flash version will ever be, but that's not the idea behind this experiment. I don't expect to design a better amazon, it's more playing with the possibilities....

Say welcome to the latest additon to the Flash Blog community: Daniel Dura (Josh Dura's Brother) started his Flash Application Development Blog a few days ago. I'm looking forward to another source of inspiration, challenges and discoveries! Even if I was a...

I'm making some progress on my Amazon Explorer. I just added a function which visualizes the "People who bought this book also bought that...". Next step will of course be all the text info, which is already parsed and ready, I just...

Here is a little sneak peek into my Flash based Amazon.com search engine. This is all in a very early stage, but at least all the backend stuff seems to work....

I must say I had a good laugh looking at the Macromedia INTERNATIONALIZED application which was showcased on FlashForward and is now available on ericcd.net. A little quote from the introduction page which elaborates over the advantages of using flash mx :...

Eric Dolecki has a special area on his site where you'll find links to the speakers' notes of the latest FlashForward. Thank you Eric for compiling them!...

Amazon is following in Google's footsteps by officially announcing the official launch of their XML-based webservices. Now you can write applications that can do quite a few things to the amazon.com database: 1. Search for products in a variety of ways –...

After Matt Rice and Jeremy Larkin swfnews.com have released the alpha of their multi-threading class, there has been some discussion about the usefulness of such a class or some nasty remarks about its "novelty factor" ("huuuh?!?! this is simply an emulation using...

Well, it looks like the self-resizing flash object (the combo box in the sidebar) is not 100% compatible with all browsers/os. So far it looks like it works fine on all my Windows IEs, on my Mac Explorer the flash file simply...

There is one thing where HTML is superior to Flash - and especially with the new combobox component this becomes obvious: HTML dropdown boxes can cover the rest of the content while they are open - flash boxes can't. This problem nagged...

You might have discovered the new "experimental search" area in my sidebar. This is part of my current localConnection experiment. What it actually does is to send special queries to all my little google API widgets on this page as soon as...

Oh my god is this beautiful! Andries Odendaal from Wireframe has designed a site for the german advertising agency Hoffmann Reiser Schalt DDB. I don't know how old that one is, but I did not see it before. And it is made...

Looks like everybody's coming back home from FF NYC. Hopefully most of the speakers will put their notes online. Samuel Wan is already preparing it. (My guess is that you will find it soon here). I will try to gather the urls...

Game On is a big exhibition in the Barbican Gallery, London featuring the history and culture of video games. What you definately must not miss is their great game in the goodie section. [Via pixelsurgeon]...

I can't believe it. There is a whole site dedicated to the "Crying Boy" by J. Bragolin. Unfortunately it is Dutch only. A while ago I found this set of prints on the fleemarket and decided to collect this stuff. Now these...

British Telecom starts a full scale approach to ruin the image of Flash. Their new 1,000,000 Pound online museum Connected Earth is a great example on how not to do it. It starts with a quirky browser detection, uses an innovative "mystery...

podLob.com is a very well done personal page of Travis (could not find his family name) featuring Flash & DHTML experiments, photography and as an extra: beautiful pixel patterns. And this guy can't be a bad person because among his favorites there...

I wish everyone who can attend Flash Forward NYC a great time! Damn, I couldn't make it - I hope there will be a europe event in autumn this year. I will try to follow the event from here reading Mike Chambers...

Peter Merholz has an interview with social network researcher Valdis Krebs from orgnet.com on his blog. He is in the business of "Social Network Analysis" which sounds quite related to my Flash Connection experiment. [Via jd on mx]...

Overheard on Flashcoders: Branden: [...] Also there is a *very large* ISP that will soon be rolling out a number of very affordable hosting plans that will include the FlashCom server. [...] Mike Chambers: watch this url for information So it looks...

Somehow I must have missed this until now: mProjector by binary noise is a cool tool that allows you to create windowless flash projector files having any shape you like. On top of that you can even control the positioning of the...

Videoconferencing, Audio Chats, Streaming Video and much more - finally the Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX is released. And if you fork over $4500 it's yours (that's for the professional version - it's only $499 for the personal version). So download the...

I just came across another flash mx component site: flashcomponents.net. They have already more than 50 components for download presented in a very clean layout. Nice....

Branden Hall has done some very good detailed research about the do's and don'ts of using shared fonts in Flash MX. This topic is definately painful - I have my own experience from working on the Triumph International site. My proposal for...

Flashback starts a bit ...well... odd, but then it is quite astonishing. Denny Gomez must be quite a maniac to create an intro like this. [via Everything Burns]...

Probably I look pretty stupid now because everybody else has known this for years but I didn't know this part of google yet: Google Zeitgeist gives you some interesting statistics about search trends, browser usage, operating systems and more. I wonder what...

Playing around with graphs and trees I came across quite a few projects that have done that on a more advanced level: Touchgraph is an open source project which looks very promising. Microsoft has a research project called Netscan that allows you...

Apart from having a design that probably causes eye-cancer the idea behind kartoo.com sounds interesting. This is a flash-based search engine which visualizes the results graphically by showing the connections between the results, filtering out keywords and allowing you to refine the...

I made a little update to the flash site link visualizer. This version allows you to switch off the connection lines, you can try the new "gravity" mode and the site names have now a box for better readability. BTW the link...

On webreference.com you can find an interview with Douglas Bagnall, the author of a 5K chess game which is among the entries in this year's 5K Award. He talks about the development process, how he got the whole thing down to 5k...

I'm a big fan of diagrams and tree charts. Here is my first attempt in visualising a linked list structure. This kind of list is different to a normal tree structure as there is no top-down hierarchy, but links that can also...

Worst Case Scenarios is a site where you can find useful tips for every dangerous facette of life, like "How to Determine If Your Date Is an Axe Murderer", "How to Cross a Piranha-Infested River" or "How to Survive Being Hit in...

I just came across flashcomponent.com a site that deals solely with flash components, done by Josh Dura and Keran McKenzie. So if you want to spice up your Flash MX a little bit and save you some work check out their download...

Bit-101 starts another round of his do-something-amazing-in-25-lines-of-actionscript-contest. There were some truly amazing results last time, like the winner entry JELLO. Check out the entries from may here and decide if you can live up to the expectations... [Via swfnews]...

As you can see I integrated my little flash banner that utilizes the Google API on my index page. This version is slightly improved over the last one as it caches the queries for 24 hours. Like this I will probably will...

3 is the magic number... Are you sure? Turbulence.org feature a very interesting piece by Golan Levin about the relative popularity of each number between 0 and 1000000. The visualisation tool is written in Java and is a real beauty. Especially the...