JD on EP

Jesse Warden had a good essay Feb1 putting the various parts of Flex 2 in context, and there's an "i saw the light" post from the person whose blog is named "Bitch Who Codes" (it's hard for me to refer to someone with that hotword when I've never even met them.... ;-) Both offer a quick way of seeing what all the excitement is about.

Thomas Landspurg writes an "Analysis of Flash Lite" which was prompted by recent adoption by more high-profile partners... in the Adobe Analyst Call I recall one section in the Q&A which announced an even larger deal which was nearing conclusion. [Thanks to Marco Casario for turning up this review.]

Adobe Video Terrorist Studio may not be in the best of taste, but it did make me laugh. (The cartoon jihad is not making me laugh, but did prompt me to wear a button in solidarity today.)

Jeff Schiller wrote a guide to invoking SVG capabilities among various browsers with PC HTML... puts a different perspective on the way we've tried to get SWF invocation past the various specs which proscribed EMBED.

Vera Fleischer, recent Macromedia alumnus, is now offering you Psychic Valentines.

During this week's Technorati trawl, my favorite title so far is "Must... contain... geek-gasm...".

Tony MacDonnel has an essay exploring the effect of recent mainstream attention on refreshing data in a browser while retaining the presentation and logic: "The story should not be: 'Ajax is redefining the way we develop for the web'. It should be: 'Unfortunately it took 5 years for the standards movement to realize that XML could be used asynchronously to improve web development'."

If you follow how big media companies are adapting to new technologies, then Richard Edelman has a collection of short pullquotes from NYT, Reuters and more at Davos. I particularly like the Sergei Brin line "Not all content wants to be free but it needs to be easy."

Autobytel served about a thousand hours a day of video last year... that's about forty television stations' worth of content.

According to The Gematriculator, I am more evil than Scott Fegette, but both of us are far more foul than Sean Corfield.

A district judge in Nevada has ruled that Google Cache is fair use, and does not constitute unauthorized republishing.

I know that ESRI ArcWeb Explorer is important, but I didn't have time to dig into it this week... see Glenn Lethem, Kirk Mower, James Fee... Jeff Thurston says "The only viewer service with world data"... I'm not sure whether some of the negative appraisals were due to configuration, server load, design or what, because I'm confused by comments like "It uses Flash 8, which seems to work fine. It's Java, so you need not download anything." Orbit FlashMap is apparently another service with Flash interface and mapping data for Europe, but I'm behind-the-curve on this effort, too. :(

For some reason, an old entry here which mentioned Entertainment Tonight still gets tons of late, off-topic evangelism....

Matt Haughey talks about timeshifting Usenet, mailing list, weblog conversation along with his timeshifted TV shows, as well as the place-shifting of minor league sports funding.

Flash Voice from Matteo Penzo sounds interesting, but I don't know much about it yet.