Flash. Photo. Slides.
February 9th, 2007
Flash-based slideshow services are all over the place. I am not sure that it is entirely clear how these services expect to make money. Some of them are having money issues already.
Now, techcrunch is announcing that adobe and photobucket are joining services to offer a video, music, and photo mashup service.
1. Give free services in flash
2. ?!?!?!??!?
3. Profit!
Flash. Charts.
February 8th, 2007
I think everybody in the world knew that this would be coming. You give them your data, and they create pretty flash charts with it.
You can try without giving your email, username, social security number, or anything. Very smart. Free if you let them put their name on it.
It will gladly read excel, CSV, and other common spreadsheet formats.
I tried entering a year’s worth of techrx traffic, and it coughed and sputtered big time. However, to its credit, it did load. Turning off the display of labels improved the read-ability of the chart in a large way. By default, it loads each point one at a time with full animation as well. Turning off the animation, therefore, helped as well.
You can save to flash or as an blog-embed item.
I made a quicker, simple chart here.
Embed Flash — Better Ways
September 6th, 2006
As I have been trying to learn flash/actionscript, I have been tortured by the default way that adobe thinks one should embed the flash into the web structure. Very painful.
Today while surfing digg, I found two excellent attacks on this problem. La Trine loses the “embed” and uses just an object type to package the flash. The Spotty Blog introduces me to the graceful javascript-using SWFObject.
Both of these are much better work-arounds than the default adobe code.