And Flashmagazine has the scoop – Flash MX 2004 announced Among the news: Flv streaming directly from Flash, and Flash MX 2004 forks into two programs. One “regular” version, and one professional. The professional comes with some extra features. More info over at Flashmagazine.com, they also have the 411 on the Studio MX 2004 news.
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ActionScript.com launched their ActionScript Reference library this week. Complete with user contributed notes. Its a joint venture between several Flash resource sites, and many of the top ActionScripers in the community. Building a reference for ActionScript has been something that the community has talked about for many years, and Macromedia has failed to deliver the reference resource so many developers and designers have been wanting for. True, Macromedia have their ActionScript Dictionary, but that reference is both unsearchable and un-noted. Not allowing for user feedback to the dictionary is a
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Couldn’t resist linking to this article: Wired News: Aggregators Attack Info Overload [Via JD on MX]
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Good article at Trendwatching.com: Companies ‘googling’ their customers to offer them personalized services. I’ll come right out and say it: I am using Google in that way already, and have been for a while. Mostly because I am a curious fscker. Now I have a good reason to quote if anyone wonders why I am reading up on them ;-) Seriously though, I can see the benefit in this. So to my next hotel: I like seaside views, English breakfasts and comfy beds. *g* [Via A Whole Lotta Nothing]
This slashdot posting was really interesting. its brief look at the history of copyright, and the misuse of it. Slashdot: Copyright The scary stuff for me, living outside the US, is how the process of weakening the established fair use is also affecting Europe and european countries. [Via Waxpraxis]
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Google Weblog: Big News! New Google Operator So what is the big deal? The ~ operator adds the ability to search for synonyms of the keyword marked with the “~”. Example: weblog help and weblog ~help According to the Google Blog the ~ character was chosen because it’s shorthand for approximate and a good way for users to express their wish to expand searches to include synonyms. More information at Google’s search help [Via Google Blog]
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If you follow the flash blogs, you would have had a hard time missing the launch of the public beta of the next Flash player. It seems we are in for a lot of sites coming and going with unofficial information about the player, as well as drips of information from the Macromedian bloggers. One of the key new features is that the new player is self updating, a feature I know Macromedia has been more or less aware of was needed since Flash 5. Other news is improvement in
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