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On Monday this week, Ammen Harper of Sorenson Media announced that Sorenson Squeeze will take a heavy price cut from USD $299 and end up at USD $119. The announcement was done in an interview with Scott Manning published at Scottmanning.com. I think the interview misses some interesting questions, such as if the price cut was done because of the previous lower price and expanding feature set of Wildform Flix – a competing Flash video product retailing for USD $149. And Scott also fails to ask Ammen about the ongoing

Having created one of the first Flash RSS Readers and won the Macromedia XML News Feed competition, Phil should have some knowledge of how to handle XML in Flash, and he is sharing that knowledge with us all in his tutorial on Flash and XML over at Studiowiz.com [Via Keran McKenzie]

Sean Voisen (eat orange has posted a few tips for creating a Flash-based chat client. He writes: These first few tips deal with the technological aspects of implementing an auto-scrolling text field as a chat window, and the option of pressing the ENTER key to quickly send messages. My techniques involve using the new MX event model and methods of the ever-wonderful TextField object. Good information for anyone that is making a Flash based chat application, maybe with something like Sean’s FlashJabber Conf

The beta of the Macromedia Flash Remoting for .NET has been made available. More information is sure to become available, but for now you are left with having to sign up for the beta to get more than the few lines on the Macromedia site. And there is always the Flash Remoting homepage Me? I am waiting for Flash Remoting for PHP, but if that will ever happen is uncertain. The hints Macromedia has been dropping up till now has not been enough to know what is going on with

Mario Klingemann’s weblog has been filled with interesting projects since he started it. And now he is working on Steering Behaviors He writes about Steering Behaviors: Basically it is about rules that control the motion of groups or flocks of elements. By applying various rules you get some very interesting motion patterns. Of course this whole issue is very tempting to be transfered to flash You can follow his project through the steps: Steering Behaviors – Step 1 Steering Behaviors – Step 2 Steering Behaviors – Step 3 Step 3

This year the 5K contest has gathered 366 contestants, and you are the judge of which one is the best. This years contest opened the contest for Flash content, and there is a lot of neat Flash contest entries, all of which are 5 KB or less. I haven’t had the time to look through all the contestants, but a couple that seems to get good ratings (out of the Flash content) are: Animation Box – a drawing and animation tool made in Flash MX Remote control tank battle –

Dmitry Skavish and his companions at JZox Inc is getting ready to release a new commercial version of JGenerator, the new Flash MX version of the Flash generator – JGenerator 2.1 MX will not be covered under the Apache Open Source License that JGenerator was covered by, and pricing of the new commercial Flash generator starts at US $125 for the developer edition, and maxes out at US $875 for the enterprise edition. With support agreements available from US $995 to US $1495 per year. JGenerator MX is due to