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What I like with Mario’s Quasimondo blog and his projects, is that he lets us follow his process while he is developing his Flash apps. Now he has gotten even closer to finishing the Amazon Explorer in his part 4. Its fun to see parts of his other Flash projects implemented with the Amazon Explorer, like his “Flash Connection” app. I wouldn’t be surprised if he makes available the source code for the Amazon explorer too, as soon as he is ready with it.

In case you haven’t noticed. The cool stuff to thinker with right now is the Flash Communication Server. And there is a lot of stuff going on. A couple of new forums for Flash Communication Server: Flash Communication Server Mail List (run by Branden Hall) Flash MX Backend Communications Web Forum at Ultrashock And Mike Chambers is planning some cool testing of cool stuff (Flash Communication Server) on his cool blog tomorrow. He needs your help, and its going to be… neat ;-) [Mike Chambers]

Nice to see the Flash 6 player taking off in the latest Media Metrix viewability audit. More than 30% coverage in all of the regions. [Via John Dowdell]

This is probably the coolest Flash site I have seen in a looooooooooong while. (That is not saying little, with all the cool sites around right now) Who’s We Design Studios has made a killer 3D Flash site. The only problem I see with the site is that at times is incredibly heavy (it sometimes loads like a snail on my DSL line) [Via Eric Dolecki]

David Dull has written an interesting article about the pros and cons of the technology exposed by the Flash communication server, titled: Flash Communications: New server, new possibilities I thought it might be worth speculating on what new possibilities this creates for us flash developers and whether this will be the bright new future of the web or if it will never get used and disappear like generator. NB: this isn’t a how-to or coding article, just my thoughts, speculations and ideas

Phillip Kerman has made a killer Flash answering machine. Its based on Flash MX and the Flash Communication Server. You can leave a message with either text, video and/or audio. Forget guestbooks, this IS the killer homepage application with Flash MX ;-)

Mike Chambers have put up a nice little chat application on his weblog – lets just call it mesh on MX chat (look on the top of the page). Its based on Flash Communication Server components and the server itself (of course), with hosting from MediaTemple. I hope other hosting companies will be able to make deals resembling those that MT must have gotten (Yes, I am talking out of self interest here). The chat showcases a weakness of the components (I think), at least the chat does not seem

It had to happen, and Mario Klingemann (Quasimondo) put it together first – The Flash amazonSearch He writes about his Flash interface for Amazon in his blog: I’m currently trying to implement some things that you will have difficulties to do in HTML. The whole idea is to have something like a table where all these books, CDs etc are lying around. Now you can make little heaps of stuff that interests you, throw away uninteresting stuff, see the connections, perhaps discover things you were not expecting and have an

Already playing with the Flash Communication Server? Then you should check out the Macromedia Flash Communication Server Components The components include: SimpleConnect PeopleList ConnectionLight UserColor Chat SetBandwidth AVPresence There is more information on the Flash Communication Server components page. [Via Mike Chambers]

No, its not a movie based on the old TV-series, its the new Flash 6 player from Macromedia. But it is at least as exciting. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and there has been added support for ID3 (MP3 info) and a whole lot more. There are more information about the player in the release documents and the beta release documents. [Via mesh on MX]