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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]

Mike Chambers writes about the questions about *nix versions of the Flash Communication Server MX Currently, it is only available for Windows servers, but we will be releasing Unix versions later in the year. Make sure to send which Unix flavor you prefer to the wish list. This will help us to prioritize the work. So if you have a Unix flavor of choice you would like to see the Flash Communication Server released on, let Macromedia know. (And, just FYI – various distributions of Linux does not constitute various

Random Media is todays Macromedia Site Of The Day and its not hard to see why. It showcases some of the possibilities with the Flash Communication Server MX. The site allows you to navigate through a world of audio, text and images and also seems to have a time dimension of sort. If you have a web cam or a microphone you can add to the mix with your own images and sounds, I found a lot of funny things on my trip through the site.

Macromedia has released the Flash Communication Server MX and they already have up an impressive development center for the server. This new server from Macromedia sports multiway audio and video streaming and messaging, making it ideal to be in the center of collaboration systems and multimedia delivery. Macromedia has only released it for Windows so far, but there are versions for Linux and Sun in the lineup. We have some screenshots up at Flashmagazine.com of the development part of the communication server, and there will be more articles made available