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Adobe releases ActionScript 3.0 Library for Facebook

Adobe just released a client library that will aid developers to easily create Flash applications on Facebook. The mechanism involved is explained here. A get-started video tutorial is also available.

Cynergy Systems, one of the best RIA companies

From day one when I stepped into Flex, I have been following the cool stuffs that Cynergy Systems Inc. builds. While there are many companies who are experts in building Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Cynergy would come out top when it comes to seamless visual experience. I have seen so many applications which embed unnecessary animation, making user feel annoying at times. Cynergy really tackle that well. Check out their showcase to see what I mean.

(A video interview taken by Ryan Stewart)

Quickcomm Enterprise with Cynergy from Ryan Stewart on Vimeo.

Microsoft’s Silverlight 3 updates

For the past two days, there have been many discussions surrounding the latest update to Microsoft’s Silverlight when it was announced during the MIX 09. The most interesting feature would be its whole new “Out-of-Browser” experience. I thought there was Microsoft’s answer to Adobe’s AIR, but soon found out they were addressing different problems. Although I’m a complete supporter of Adobe’s Flex and Flash platform, I must say Silverlight looks more attractive with each release.

I must also say MS are great marketers, on the video front, they were able to convince the Olympics folks to use Silverlight to stream videos in both the Beijing 2008 Olypmics and Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.

An emerging trend – Augmented Reality (AR)

After checking out Cyber Figure Alice, I came across more products that use Augmented Reality. For instance, AR-powered baseball cards and GE’s Smart Grid. Let me know if you come across anymore.

For Flash enthusiasts, Saqoosha has released a library for enabling AR on the Flash platform dubbed the FLARToolkit. Ryan Stewart posted a FLARToolkit demo while attending Adobe Max in Japan earlier this year. Check it out : )

FLARToolKit Demo from Ryan Stewart on Vimeo.

Twitter on Flash

I’ve worked with many external API services to date…Flickr, Facebook, Youtube… you name it. None of them is as easy as Twitter’s, simply love it. See what I created in a day.

[update Mar 03, 2009] See also Friendfeed API demo.

World’s first interactive cyber figure on your screen

I agree the post title sounds confusing. That’s because I have no idea how to best describe this wonderful product released in Japan earlier this year. Named “Dennoh Figure ARis” (translated as Cyber Figure Alice), it is a virtual doll that you can interact with using some sensors and webcam. Priced at 9,800 yen (around USD100), I believe many geeks will get one.

Now, let the video do the talking.

A dead simple way to shorten url using TinyURL API

Folks using Twitter would appreciate the notion of shortening url given that each post in Twitter is limited to 140 characters. Several services exist, but among them, only TinyURL hosts a cross-domain policy file. That means we can use the TinyURL API to shorten url without the need of a proxy server.

The API is damn simple; just make a call to:

http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=<longish url>

Demo:
Shorten URL (view source enabled)