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I am blown away by the great program at Macromedia DevCon this year. The conference isn’t cheap, and is held at a rather expensive area in Florida – but I was still seriously working on getting there. Now I have changed my mind and will boycott the event, and I think you should too. Why? Because Macromedia is treating their speakers for the event bad. And they are treating the Flash developer community equally bad in letting some of the speakers actually charge extra for attending their speech. Jakob Nielsen […]

Interesting to see Sorenson (Squeeze) and Wildform (Flix) release their new Flash MX video tools at the same time. Sorenson’s big news is the stitching feature that will allow you to use Flash to do really big video files. As many of you might know, Flash relies on all of its content having to be loaded into RAM, which has made it rather uniftted for large video files – until now. The new version/revision of Squeeze also includes AVI file support. Wildform’s Flix 3 has as its biggest news the

Lisa Delgado, Wired’s dedicated Flash writer, has taken the time to write about ESPNs use of Flash MX to make available videos with multiple angles on their EXPN.com site, as well as a lot of other uses for video in Flash. ESPN has really made good use of Flash MX on their site. And the session they had about it at FlashForward 2002 San Francisco really blew me away.

Its not long since Flash 6/MX was released, but Macromedia is probably already hard at work on projecting the next version of Flash. Although probably not directly related, Mike Chambers used a slow day to ask the question: “What do you want to see in the next version of Flash?” – Not too surprising that it sparked a lot of suggestions and discussion.

Its impressive to see Macromedia keep churning out great Flash development and design articles. Mike, as usual, has the list of new content at Macromedia. I’ll let you take the trip to Mike to check out the complete list. What I immediately think are the two most interesting new articles are the new sample application – Blackboard Group Management, and John’s article about how not to get help (and how to get help, for that matter)

Jason Key (Flash Distracted) has written a nice entry in his blog about Flash Player Bug Releases .. good or bad? I agree its nice to see Macromedia release new bug-fix versions of the player often. But it also seems to me like they were in too much of a hurry (this time around too). Breaking functionality is never a good thing. The .47 version of the Flash 6 player has broken several features from the previous Flash 6 players. I understand some of them, such as the redirect function