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I am sure this is interesting both for those that were there, and those of us that couldn’t attend (so we can google at some of the cool gadgets that were shown, and all the other stuff that went on during the conference). Robert Hall links to Additional Pocket PC Summit Coverage

Sometimes I am so bad at spotting news. :-) I featured Stuart Schoneveld’s web site illogicz.com not long ago, and found some of his cool projects there. Amongs them, his Flash Rich Text Editor But it took Jon Udell, then Dave Winer, then John Dowdell and finally Chris MacGregor to point out how cool it was before I got that its actually news. (Yeah, I am slow). There are some interesting links to add to this story however. Tim Appnel is adding some thoughs and questions – that I hope

Mike Chambers has done it again, today he has put together a very comprehensive list of resources, articles etc. about Flash components. I can’t imagine that he has overlooked a single link. If you see any that is missing, let him know – he is sure to add it to the list.

Macromedia has announced the winners of their XML Feed Contest. I am not surprised that Phil Chung got the “Most Creative” award for his implementation of the XML newsfeed. He has gotten a lot of well deserved attention for his implementation. The prize for “Best Site Integration” went to Timberfish, their implementation is clean and in Flash. Giving it the same font scaling problem that most other Flash implementations have today. In this case an HTML representation of the feed would probably have been better, or they should have choosen

Doubleyou has made a very cool little soccer game, warning: Its addictive! The objective of the game is to keep the ball in the air, which is not that easy. One of the coolest things about this game is the crazy vocal sounds included. [Via Flazoom via Valyard]

Robert Hall has dug up some information about Forrester Research on Macromedia and MX All of us developers and users of Flash MX, and other Macromedia products know the value and power that they hold, but the corporate IT weenies and muckity-mucks don’t always know and often need a good hand holding and spoon feeding of data to make their pillows soft at night. Amen to that Robert (yeah, I know – I am one of them obnoxious developers) Robert found some good links for those of us that don’t

Nice to see that Phil is getting the attention he deserves for the great Flash MX work he has been doing with his Macromedia XML feed reader. Jon Udell writes about it, so does Dave Winer. I think Dave needs new glasses *g*. At the same time, it does show the problems with traditional implementations with Flash MX, there is usually no way to really scale the text up in a nice way. As far as I can understand, its just an implementation issue. [Via JD on MX and Dave