As some of you know, I am the founder of FlashToGo.com. This year FlashToGo celebrates 10 years! Over 60.000 members worldwide. For those who don't know, FlashToGo is an on line system that empowers non-tech users to easily build, customize, update and publish a multimedia Flash web site. It is based on the SaaS business model, long before the term was created. :-) Visit FlashToGo.com

Adobe Beefs Up Flash 9 with H.264, AAC and Hardware Support Adobe's introduced a powerful new component it'll be placing into its Flash Video Player 9, adding support for that red-hot H.264 codec, the video compression routine that's behind Blu-ray, HD DVD and lots of HD goodness all over the videoscape. Adobe's also heightened the efficiency of Flash audio, adding AAC audio compression. Perhaps the most important part of the announcement is the addition of hardware acceleration for playback of all ...

Gaia is a front-end Flash Framework targeted at anyone who develops Flash sites. It's designed to dramatically reduce development time. It provides solutions to the challenges and repeated tasks we all face with front-end Flash site development, such as navigation, transitions, preloading, asset management, site structure and deep linking. It provides speed and flexibility in your workflow and a simple API that gives you access to its powerful features. http://www.gaiaflashframework.com

This Flash snippet was developed to dinamically load images from a Flick RSS feed.[SWF]http://marcosfigueira.com/flickr/flickr.swf, 484, 363[/SWF]

Adobe is working on client-based software that will run Flash applications separately from a browser, whether online or offline. The company is working on a project code-named Apollo, which will let applications written for Adobe's Flash software run without a Web browser.