Jason Key (Flash Distracted) has written about “Flash Resources in Flux“, good someone is taking the time to make up status for the Flash resources right now. Better yet, take the time to tell Jason (or me) which sites you think are alive and working resources for Flash developers and designers right now. Come on, give us some feedback! ;-)
Flash site deaths update Read More »
Congratulations is in order for my good friend Jensa on his first finished book project! It should be in stores soon, and is already available on some norwegian online book stores. The bad news for most of the people of the world is that the book is in Norwegian – a language only 0,09% of the world population actually uses from day to day. The book is about the concepts of Flash MX. The title “Forstå Flash MX – Fra topp til bunn”, or “Understand Flash, from top to bottom”.
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There has been quite a lot of “deaths” in the Flash resources the last year. Its especially noticeable for me, since I edit for some humanly indexed catalogs of internet sites. One of the flash sites and discussion forums that disappeared in 2002 was were-here.com – a domain that is about to expire, and I can only wonder who will snap it up. Other causalities are “zombies”, that is – sites there are still around in a way, but are only corpses of the sites they used to be, abandoned
2002 Flash site deaths – and what wasn’t done about it Read More »
A very good article about Google and optimizing for it and other search engines. Might be basic for some web developers, but it covers the basics of optimizing your site for your users and the search engines. Google Village: Who are you optimizing your site for?
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At least if you live in the USA. Using the DMCA subpoena provision, RIAA managed to convince a Washington D.C. Judge that they should be allowed access to information about a Kazaa user identity from the users ISP Verizon Internet Service. The Judge apparently believes that any copyright owner should be allowed access to any net users identity, just by the merits of alleged copyright violations. Now, since this weblog is copyright protected — I should also be able to claim copyright violation from anyone downloading it without my written
I now have the right to know who YOU are Read More »
And it seems to be especially ill in the US. Lately a lot of crazy patents has surfaced as the companies that succeeded acquiring them have tried to enforce them. The latest evidence of the illness and cluelessness of the patent system as it is today, is the news story about SBC Communications (american telco and ISP), a company that claims they have a patent on “A structured document browser includes a constant user interface for displaying and viewing sections of a document that is organized according to a pre-defined
The patent system is sick Read More »
Mike Williams, the Flash product manager for Macromedia, has set up his own weblog. I am sure there will be a lot of interesting posts and discussions on his blog about Flash. Flashback MW Nice to see Mike Williams also choosing MovableType (somehow I feel the influence of Mike Chambers on that decision :-) Just a note to Mike Williams: You really should include a “powered by MovableType” to pay homage to the great work of the developers which allow so many of us to have such a powerful tool
New Macromedian weblogger: Mike Williams Read More »
Very nice to see Mike Chambers, the Macromedia Flash community manager upgrade his weblog and layout – and moving it to his own server: mesh on mx The redesign is very classy, and done by Josh Dura. Mike is now using Movable Type (welcome in the club Mike), and of course – using MT together with ColdFusion. (Personally I have chosen to use MovableType together with PHP). Its a lot of fun being able to use several technologies to put together a blog :-)
Mike Chambers upgrades his blog Read More »
Nice to see an airline really being cutting edge on technology. Together with Boeing, Lufthansa launches on-board WLAN service. With download speeds at 7 Mbit/s and upload starting at 128 Kbit/s (to be upgraded to 750 Kbit/s at a later date). I am wired and net-addicted enough for this to affect my choice of airline on my next trip over the atlantic :-)
Thats what I call a hotspot Read More »
I like seeing Flash used to present a message. This time I thought I would point you all to The Miniature Earth. Its a presentation of how our world looks when simplifying it to a small village of 100 people.
Miniature Earth flash presentation Read More »