Posts Tagged with ‘flash’

Today at Adobe MAX 2008 conference Sprout debuts a totally new idea that is very much likely to change the way rich media ads, widgets, and various social media sites are evaluated and monetized based on their performance. The thing is that the company is launching Google Analytics tracking functionality for Adobe Flash.
The company’s main line of business is providing various engagement marketing solutions to advertisers and publishers. Of course it is understandable that engagement needs to be measured for [...]

I have to admit my prejudice against WiiBrowser that started when I first read what they did; without a big, pretty HDTV, I find any and all web browsing from my kids' Nintendo Wii to be kludgy, ugly, and painful. The Wii uses Opera, which only adds to my pain, because the one thing I WOULD allow the kids to do with it online is visit sites like Webkinz World, but the Wii Opera browser doesn't support the latest Flash [...]

Buzz.com and ManagedQ are the latest in the very crowded space of news aggregators, each hoping to make a splash by bringing a unique user interface to the concept.
Buzz.com, currently in closed beta, is a joint effort from AT&T and researchers at Northwestern University. With a pretty Flash interface, Buzz.com presents the news it aggregates in an easy-to-read format, and lets you filter by category, rating, date, URL, or flag only "hot topics." You can search by keyword, change the [...]

If some of the latest funding news is any indication, widgets are the newest must-have for every content-driven site as well as Web 2.0 apps. Widgetbox allows users to create their own widgets, which can then be used on blogs and other web pages for everything from highlighting the RSS feed of another blog to running games in a sidebar.
And while widgets are the darlings of Web 2.0 companies from MyBlogLog to Flickr, even old-school companies are jumping on the [...]

Remember when Digg launched its Images category earlier this month? It was an addition that really couldn’t have come soon enough. The social news company got plenty of notes of appreciation, plenty of big Xs and Os for finally putting it out there for the community. At last there was a convenience place to share all those cool Flickr finds…outside of Flickr. So all around thumbs up, right?
Sure, we can second such impressions. Many of us here [...]

Not too long ago, we castigated Adobe somewhat for signing onto a creepy PDF overlay advertising plan with the Yahoo! Mail folks. Now we will celebrate the company for doing something rather wonderful.
No, we haven’t gone bipolar. We’re still well in control of our senses. We just really, really like what we heard yesterday coming out of the San Jose-based company’s PR department.
If you’re familiar with Adobe and its Microsoft-like aversion to providing most any piece of software [...]

Anyone who is familiar with SearchMash knows that it is essentially Google's playground for new search technologies and features.
In a major update, Google has now introduced a fully Flash-driven version of the search engine that also makes use of the Snap Shots preview add-on so widely used around the web.
Flash has always had its naysayers who cite incompatibility, SEO-UNfriendliness, and slow load times, but Google seems to have created a very well-developed search engine that offers users much [...]

Microsoft has shown a lot of interest this year in becoming a stronger web competitor. In 2007, the company has released a Flash competitor (Silverlight), unveiled a rival for AppleTV (Extenders), and significantly updated its Live search engine to better compete with Yahoo! and Google.
This appears to only be the tip of the iceberg, however, as Steve Ballmer proclaimed yesterday, amid a room full of spectators at the Web 2.0 Summit, that he has made plans to purchase 20 web [...]

Multiplayer gaming on the Internet – or social gaming, if we’re talkin’ two-oh lingo – is nothing new. It’s been done for, well, many, many years. I believe Yahoo! was the first portal of any significant stature to debut a venue for just such entertainments, way back in the days when dial-up still ruled the tubes.
So when Profy got a message recently from the makers of a social gaming network, asking us to test what they had developed, I [...]