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FlashForward blogging

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Mike Chambers have done a commendable job updating everyone of us that couldn’t go to the FlashForward conference in NYC this summer (and documenting the great speeches and sessions for everyone that was lucky enough to be able to attend too), he put up a section of his blog for the blogging – and managed to post the following live bloggings during the 3 day conference (the first day was workshops/sessions) Day 1: (Workshops) Branden Hall : Session 1 of 3 Branden Hall : Session 2 of 3 Branden Hall […]

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RSS Readers: Full As A Goog: Chock Full Of Macromedia Goodness

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I am sorry, I have to admit that of the online web based RSS readers, this has to be one of the best I have seen so far: Full As A Goog: Chock Full Of Macromedia Goodness Its made by Geoff Bowers and designed by Firda Beka and is realized with ColdFusion. Looks and works great, it might even start to compete with AmphetaDesk as my way of keeping updated on the Flash weblogs. At least when Geoff comes around to implementing some items on the wishlist, such as user

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Why to not _blank

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Mark Pilgrim continues on his 30 days to a more accessible weblog, today he explains why the _blank tag is evil. In all dominant browsers, using the <a target=”_blank”> tag to force a link to open in a new window breaks the Back button. The new window does not retain the browser history of the previous window, so the “Back” button is disabled. This is incredibly confusing, even for me, and I’ve been using the web for 10 years My personal reason for not using _blank tages on my weblog

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Quasimondo Flash Google API search

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Mario keeps proving that he knows how to use the new cool features of Flash MX, and the equally cool features of the Google API with his Google API Flash banner He is using it on all the stories on the frontpage of Quasmindo.com, kind of scary that I am the only search result associated with the story about “the search for Quasimodo”. :-) Mario has made the full source code for the Google API Flash banner available, great job Mario! I have been contemplating including it on my own

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30 days to a more accessible weblog

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Mark Pilgrim (dive into mark) is writing up a whole month of good tips on how to make your weblog more accessible. Its really a usability exercise – and most of what he is talking about can easily apply to all other forms of web sites too. I’ve already implemented a few of his tips. They are probably not obvious to the regular IE-browser-user but to others its hopefully of help. With weblogs most of us are already using template based systems – so taking the time to implement features

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New tech-word: Warchalking

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The picture above is an example of how warchalking might look like. Maybe not something that you understand instantly, but if you go over to Everything Burns and look at the proposal there, you might get a better idea of what it means. Warchalking is the hobo-language for free wireless networking, in short – a way for people to mark where good wireless networking is available. Sifry explains: Starting in London, people are marking WiFi spots in chalk on the street, called Warchalking. Just like the hobos of old, these

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Yet another RSS Flash viewer

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Nicolas S.-Roy has released his Flash RSS reader. It supports RSS 1.0 and RSS 0.9x, lets you view RSS feeds that is not on the list. And also allows you to view several feeds on the same page. There are still some work to be done here, but its a good start. Nicolas tells me that the source FLA will be made available soon. I hope the same will be true for Phil’s Flash RSS reader and Ming’s Multiblog Flash RSS Reader, making these projects open source would really make

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Blogs: Another Macromedian blogger

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Sean Corfield, director of Architecture at Macromedia has joined the Macromedian bloggers with his An Architect’s View. According to Branden Hall “This man is smart – and I mean really smart – he’s the director of architecture at Macromedia! He’s about, oh 2 billion steps out of my league” – which should put him somewhere out in the gallaxy compared to me ;-) Sean has an article up at Macromedia.com about Software design patterns for Macromedia Flash Remoting, which is an interesting article. He also writes interesting stuff on his

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Feasible Impossibilities speak up

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I am having serious blog envy! Robert Hall has been showcasing speech synthesis hooked to Flash for a while on his Flash site, but now he has put together a nice little application for his regular weblog. You can now hear parts of his weblog entries via Flash. Still miss some in depth information about how he has done it. Would have been nice to get to look into the gut of the sound beast ;-) [Update] Ok, found his presentation of the project at FlashForward 2001 in NYC: Ideas

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Blogs: Google blog

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This is mighty cool, a Google Weblog. Found it at “Everything burns“. On the Google blog I found some interesting information: The Google Dance Once a month Google calculates the pagerank of each page and changes the serp (search enigne result pages) for all keywords. The Google Dance is the time between the start and the end of an update. In that time you get different results on www.google.com, www2.google.com and www3.google.com. Normally the Google Dance takes about 4 days. I also found a link to a new ODP category

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