Flash News & Articles

WoodWing (news, site)  helps new and traditional media to work smarter through the use of technology. Its latest content manager sees the company open its arms to the new generation of browsers.

It's official. Yooba Studio, a Flash-based content management system from Yooba (news, site), is officially available for commercial use. If you want to have flash-enabled websites without the cost of a creative agency, then this CMS is definitely worth a first and second look.

Code and Visual hits all the right keywords with its new web content management solution. Rainbow Live offers the ability to manage XML content for Flash-based websites. It's a simple Web CMS, supported by their Rainbow XML editor, for those who don't want to be weighed down by hefty back-end systems.

You see a lot of Flash content on websites today. Sometimes the entire website is done in Flash, sometimes it's just a portion of it, or maybe just a microsite. Most people in the Flash game have either an experienced Flash developer or a design agency developing that content for you.

But if Yooba's claims are true, one can now do much of this Flash content development oneself -- without knowing the ins and outs of Flash development. You just need Yooba, a SaaS-based Flash Web Content Management System.

Intrigued but skeptical, we spoke with Sven Miller, Sales Manager for Yooba, to get the scoop on this new solution.

No doubt you’ve heard of, and even anticipated, the release of Microsoft Silverlight 3. The third version of the runtime comes a mere eighteen months after the initial launch in 2007.

Such a quick turnover has understandably made a few folks skeptical, as has the rumor that this will be the only beta before the official Silverlight 3 ships later this year. But so far positive reviews are coming in by the truckload, securing Silverlight in the ring with Adobe Flash for what will likely be a pretty good fight.

If you fed Flash to your content management system, you’d get what Flypaper Studio, Inc. has to offer. Their interactive software makes it easy for users to create and reuse Flash content for more razzle dazzle effect and less headache.

The interesting solution was recently recognized by the Arizona Technology Council at the 2008 Governor’s Celebration of Innovation, but if you haven’t heard of it yet, now’s a good time to get familiar. The release of Flypaper 2.0 was announced earlier this month and it’s looking pretty attractive (pun intended).

Apple and Adobe both strive to be the coveted number one in their respective industries. Continually, the two make strides in an effort assure that happens. Now they are working together to release Flash for the iPhone.

Like your KickApps social media solution? You may like it even more now that they have launched a new app studio to help develop highly customized Flash applications which can include the integration of third party applications.

Sprout, creators of Sproutbuilder.com, and Google have teamed up at this year’s Adobe Max 2008 conference in North America to make a couple of big announcements.

Sprout, a fairly new company is announced a new interactive flex-based service along side Google…who has announced that Google Analytics can now track Flash Media.

Together, the two have worked in conjunction to make the future of Flash-based social media happen today.

Wowza Media Systems, a software company that focuses solely on media servers, announced the availability of Wowza Media Server Pro Subscription Edition.

This new product features “friction-free” monthly subscription licensing for its industrial-strength media server. The goal is to make the process of streaming or hosting flash media services a “painless” and cost-effective option.

With the multitude of video file formats, sizes and ways to distribute them, one can get lost quite quickly and easily. Flash has been a long-standing way of using video on Web sites; but, generally, requires a Flash developer to handle it. That’s not to say that there aren’t programs out there that can’t assist with converting video to flash, but many of them have limited capabilities or cost large amounts of money.

DVDVideoSoft recently released an updated version of their Video to Flash Converter as a free download.

Interwoven released an enhanced version of Interwoven MediaBin. The company’s flagship Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution is now faster, more interactive and allows for better control for managing and deploying rich media assets. Some of the enhancements are quite expected, while others just don’t make much sense.

In an effort to entice consumers to visit its customers’ sites and make Flash software more attractive to Web site developers, Adobe has taken steps to make pages with Flash-created images more recognizable to search engines like Google.

Although they are still growing in use and popularity, widgets are not new to the web. Something that is new is the ability to easily create your own flash based widgets without needing to know a lot of action script or other code base. This is where Sprout Builder comes in…

A good blog post is in essence a question; purposefully opinionated, or better yet, outright wrong. It demands interaction.

The blogger’s job is to provide the question, provoke debate, and invite the community at large to pool its immense knowledge and take the conversation further (a characteristic which distinguishes the blogger from the journalist). The conversation is the reason why we prefer blogs. If it weren’t for the dialog between writer and reader, we may as well just pick up a newspaper or listen to the damn radio.

This is how it was always supposed to be. But typically, either this conversation does not really happen at all, or else it is so slow and disjointed as to suck the life out of the whole process. Blogging platforms and the blogosphere as a whole have failed miserably at enabling effective conversation.

But it would appear that the landscape changing, and that the evolution of conversation is changing the nature of blogging itself. To demonstrate this, we look at a particular, regular post by Robert Scoble, and look at how the conversation now shifts from one forum to another (and more importantly, why). This will demonstrate how the blogosphere is becoming less about the blog, and more about the conversation.

This trend has wide-ranging implications, and points the way for future web communication, both in the blogosphere and beyond.