July 2002

Macromedia published a press release today saying they have signed a technology development and distribution agreement with America Online (AOL). Macromedia Flash Player will continue to be distributed with AOL software and will feature enhanced functionality that will enable AOL members to enjoy a more robust content experience. Its a short press release that has sparked some speculation at SwfNews — notably from someone within Macromedia ;-) The part of the press release that has been emphasized is “improve the quality and user experience of many of our AOL client […]

The Flash Film Festival 2002 NYC awards have been handed out, and here are the winners, courtesy of Josh Dura

Seems like Smashing Ideas have a very cool XML-blogger screensaver, they showcased it at FlashForward in NYC and fellow flash-blogger Eric Dolecki was there and writes about it on his blog. Glenn Thomas of Smashing Ideas have promised to make the files from FlashForward 2002 accessible at FlashStudioSecrets, expect the files to be up on tuesday. (Thanks Eric for letting me know)

Kenny Bunch has released the BrowserHistory Class for Flash MX, its a cool component when you want to implement back and forward buttons in Flash. Kenny decided to use the SharedObject intance and seem to have come up with a pretty good history solution. And it should work nicely with most browsers supporting Flash.

Wireless Newsfactor picks up on the news that the HP iPaq will start having the Flash player installed by default. (Phillip Torrone have reported on this before) While Phillip thinks the next step is to have it being baked into the ROMs, I think the next step should be to get the Flash 6 player out for Pocket PCs and other PDAs, we need the MX revolution on the PDAs too. And I am not talking about timespan of 2 years. (Which is the time it took for the Flash

Wired has an article today titled “Lots of Flash, Even More Sizzle“. Apperantly their reporter Lisa Delgado will be covering the FlashForward conference in NYC. In todays article she interviews Phillip and he lets her in on some of his mad inventions.

Mike Chambers is blogging live from the FlashForward conference going on in New York City right now. He has already blogged about the Flash Communication Server party/presentation that Macromedia had yesterday, and is blogging the sessions/workshops he is attending today (the main conference starts tomorrow). He is obviously attending Branden Hall’s sessions Cool stuff, almost like being there ;-)

The german design/flash/web company derBauer has released a new version of their site, this time with a LOT of chrome. I think the interface looks slick, but either I am too dense to understand all of the navigation, or they actually have “dead links” in their Flash site. All in all its worth taking a look at, the slickness factor is high. [Via valyard|ru]