There are some very cool things going on at DEMOfall 2006. If you aren’t familiar with DEMO, it describes itself as “the launchpad for emerging technology” and that isn’t far from the truth. A lot of companies come to Demo to show off their products for the first time (including one we’ve become familiar with). This year, there are quite a few Flash applications showing how Flash is powering a lot of cutting edge ideas. My favorite is probably Wallop – it looks REALLY cool.

Pluggd – I love this company and I use their service every day. They centralize all of my podcasts and they now offer technology that allows you to search your favorite shows. The new podcast search/listening interface is written in all Flash, and it’s very cool. Icing on the cake? They’re here in Seattle.

System One – I have no idea what this company does. I looked around the website, but I can’t really figure it out. My guess is social networking for enterprises. BUT, they are using Flash for all of their visualizations proving once again, when you want to do something cool, you reach for Flash.

Eyespot – This company allows you to mix videos and songs together then provides the capability to upload them to your mobile phone. The “Trimmer” is in Flash, and they’re using Flash video for the desktop viewing. The rest of the site is Ajax and they do not use Flash Lite. (This is an updated description based on comments below).
Widgetbox – Okay, okay, they don’t technically use Flash. But they are a widget aggregator and a lot of the widgets they show are Flash based.

GrandCentral – Om Malik covered this today. GrandCentral is a phone number centralizer. You sign up, get a phone number, and you can have all of your calls forwarded to that number (work, cell, home). GrandCentral will allow you to set up rules so you can send everything to voicemail, or forward calls. They use a nice combination of Flash and JavaScript. Flash controls a good chunk of the UI including all of the message playback.

Wallop – Now THIS is Flash. I need to figure out how to get an invite to this thing. Mike Arrington has some info over on TechCrunch. Wallop is a Flash-based social network that looks really awesome. They are inviting Flash gurus to become part of the Wallop Modder Network. And to think, this is a Microsoft spinoff! This looks really awesome.

Scrapblog – I’ve seen this site around for a while and I’ve talked to some of the people behind it. Not only does it use Flash, but the app was developed in Flex. It’s an online Scrapbook that people seem to have mixed feelings about. TechCrunch covered it here. I think my mom would love this application. Flash – bringing Web 2.0 to moms!

iBloks – This is a Flash application done in OpenLaszlo. It’s kind of the same thing as Eyespot, it allows for mixing and remastering of photos and videos that you can share.

Technorati Tags: Flash, DEMOfall 2006, Pluggd, System One, Eyespot, GrandCentral, Wallop, Scrapblog, iBloks

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Flamewar

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The term flamewar might refer to one of the following:

• A flamewar is a prolonged exchange of deliberately hostile messages over the Internet.
• Flamewar is a very rare—female—Transformers action figure.

http://www.bloggersblog.com/

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FlashBlog.org – A flashbased blog solution. In spanish!

For some reason I forgot to blog this supercool project when I found it i january. Its actually a complete blog solution built with Flash as a frontend. One can argue about the usability of such a project but at least it is worth taking a look at, if only just for learning purposes. Too bad it it programmed in spanish, so it is a bit of a hassle to figure out what goes where, but still. I’ve poked a little bit at it, but have to give it another go.

FlashBlog.org «El primer Weblog realizado en Flash y Open Source»

http://categories.blogspot.com/

This is my first attempt at parsing XML using ActionScript. The stuff between the <pre> and </pre> tags is released to the public domain. Do what you will with it. Be aware though, that I can’t offer technical support … mostly because I don’t know enough to help you.

First, the XML:

<alldots>
  <dotname id="bigDot" color="0xff0000" url="http://www.fletchermartin.com/" photos="8" />
  <dotname id="otherDot" color="0x000066" url="http://www.ajc.com/" photos="8" />
  <dotname id="thirdDot" color="0xCC0099" url="http://www.tiffanybbrown.com/" photos="0" />
</alldots>

Then the ActionScript (commented for your learning pleasure):

var dots:XML = new XML();
dots.load('bigdot.xml');

dots.onLoad = function(success:Boolean)​{
	if(success)​{
		if(dots.status == 0)​{
			 var dotsToXMLString:String = new String(); // initializes a new string variable
			 dotsToXMLString = dots.toString(); 		// converts dots XML object to a string and stores it in dotsToXMLString.

			 var dotsXML:XML = new XML(dotsToXMLString);// creates new XML object with the string contents from above.
			 dotsXML.parseXML(dotsToXMLString);			// parses the string from above.

			 var dotsNodes:Object = dotsXML.firstChild; // Saves the firstChild (in this case, the outermost element) as an object
			 var dotsNodesChildren:Object = dotsNodes.childNodes; // Saves the childNodes of firstChild as an object

			 for(i=0;i<dotsNodesChildren.length;i++)​{
				var newObj:Object = dotsNodes.childNodes[i].attributes.id; // creates a new object out of the child node's id.

				var newObjColor:Color = new Color(newObj); // creates a new color object with newObj as its target
				var theColor:Number = dotsNodes.childNodes[i].attributes.color; //retrieves the hex code value (number) of the attribute color

				newObjColor.setRGB(theColor); // sets the RGB value of newObjColor.
			}

		} else {
			trace("Problem parsing XML.");
		}
	} else{
		trace("Could not load XML");
	}
}
 

View everything in action, or download the .fla, and XML files.

Fierri: Developer ready Flash-based blog-ware

Posted Jul 20th 2005 1:43PM by Mike Schleifstein
Filed under: Innovation, ActionScript, Ideas, Rich Internet Applications, Web Standards, Flash MX2004, Flash MX2004 Professional, Beta, Bugs